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Alpenglow went live at epoch 1064 and changed how validators earn vote rewards. Metrics built around TowerBFT vote credits no longer tell the full story. Here’s how Stakewiz rebuilt its scoring. 🧵

Alpenglow is coming, and we're ready. Solana's next consensus upgrade targets ~150ms finality, down from 12.8 seconds. Here's what changes, why it matters and how to check your validator's readiness 🧵

Solana’s usage is making a statement.

A proud moment for SOL Strategies 📸 Our management team together at @NasdaqExchange, celebrating $STKE and the work of so many people across the business. To our team, partners and community: thank you for being part of the journey. We’re excited to keep building.

looking good here 🫡

420M USDC transactions in a month. Solana is where USDC gets spent.

$STKE turned one today. 🎉 One year on @NasdaqExchange. A year of building across the onchain economy. We launched STKESOL, welcomed @HoudiniSwap and expanded our privacy stack with Zyga. Validator infrastructure. Liquid staking. Cross-chain liquidity. Zero-knowledge privacy. Thank you to everyone building with us, supporting us and following along ♥️

build everything on @solana.

Shoutout to every validator working around the clock to keep Solana online, secure and moving. The work is often invisible, but the network doesn’t run without it. 🫡

Voted ✅

YES, YES & YES! All 4 of our validators, representing 1,930,313.95 staked solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112, have voted in favour of: ✅ SGP-0001: The Solana Constitution ✅ SGP-0002: Double Disinflation ✅ SGP-0003: Resource and Inclusion Fee Operating the network means helping shape it 🚀

✅400ms --> 350ms 🟩350ms --> 300ms 🟩300ms --> 250ms 🟩250ms --> 200ms Solana is accelerating ⚡️

Three numbers are about to change what @solana apps can do: 90% 4,096 200ms They look unrelated but they are all part of the same validator release Here is what Agave 4.2 changes 👇

SOL Strategies Board Director @jonmatonis would rather see an imperfect Clarity Act pass than wait for a perfect one. Because crypto regulation isn't a partisan issue, it's a business issue. We don't want FTX to happen again.

1,000 epochs on @Solana. 🎉 A huge milestone for the ecosystem and a reminder of how far Solana has come. Behind every epoch are the builders, validators, engineers, founders, researchers, creators and community members who kept showing up, kept improving the network and kept shipping. Across DeFi, RWAs, DePIN, payments, stablecoins, consumer apps, tokenized equities and infrastructure, Solana has grown into one of the most important ecosystems in crypto. And the world is paying attention. PayPal. Visa. Stripe. Mastercard. Western Union. Circle. SoFi. Major names are moving closer to Solana rails across stablecoins, payments, settlement and onchain financial infrastructure. Congratulations Solana. The next chapter is just getting started.

Solana Validators this is important for you: Alpenglow VAT will be activated in ~3 weeks and without action your node will be excluded from consensus. You need to set a BLS pubkey on your vote account: discord.com/channels/4282953…

Alpenglow makes Solana faster. But the bigger story is what that speed enables across the @Solana economy. Faster settlement for markets. Better UX for users. Stronger foundations for builders. More capable infrastructure for institutions. With @anza_xyz, @jump_firedancer, @doublezero, @jito and the wider builder ecosystem all pushing the stack forward, Solana is becoming far more than a high-performance chain. It is becoming the rails for a real-time onchain economy.

What a way to kick off the week 🤯 1B+ non-vote transactions $16B+ in stablecoin supply $3.4B+ real world assets value Millions of daily active addresses This is what real adoption looks like. Happy Monday Solana 😎

IMPORTANT UPDATE The Orangefin dApp is being sunset. Please withdraw your funds by July 31, 2026. Users who do not withdraw before this date will be able to export their private keys at app.orangefin.ventures. Thank you to everyone who supported us and shared feedback.