Lightspeed Newsletter

Memecoins, tech, and inflation have dominated the first half of the year

DeFi Dev nears 1 million SOL with $19 million in share proceeds

The all-cash deal will push Sanctum beyond liquid staking tokens

The network got slower in June — and it wasn’t for tech-related reasons

Momentum’s back — BTC leads, risk assets follow

Firedancer has yet to go fully live, but its progress has been “pretty impressive,” a dev said

One wallet bought pump.fun’s token from 500 different addresses

Data shows frontrunning has declined on the network compared to last year

The non-profit’s “Project Open” seeks to let stocks trade directly on Solana

Still relatively little is known about the memecoin platform’s forthcoming token

Sluggish validators, consider yourselves on public watch

BAXUS helped me sell my limited-edition bottle of Clase Azul

TAPEDRIVE says it can make Solana data storage 1,400x cheaper

Wow, the ETF hype sure didn’t last long

How a political refugee turned NFT trader is giving back to his alma mater

REX and Osprey prep to launch their Solana staking ETF

Firedancer begins delegating stake to Solana validators

Onchain SOL perps wiped $31 million, outpacing CEX volumes two days in a row

The rebranded infrastructure company offers more than 200 Solana yield integrations

Fiserv’s launch follows Senate passage of the GENIUS Act for stablecoin regulation.

Solana’s price run might stall as ETH gains institutional favor

All eight included staking in their most recent SEC filings

Rate cuts drift into Q4 limbo as markets pretend everything’s fine

Acquisitions could help the memecoin platform own more of the trading stack