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The past 7 days have seen unprecedented levels of token generation on Solana. Solscan data shows that over 1.75 million new tokens have been created on Solana in the past week, marking the highest weekly total in the network's history. The proliferation of memecoin launchpads has made it much easier for Solana users to create new tokens on the network.

A brand new launchpad, Paid, went live yesterday, September 15, with an ambitious proposition: let crypto users support projects and receive creator fee distributions directly through their X accounts.

The Solana-based protocol has moved quickly. Its analytics dashboard shows almost $400,000 in total fees, 4,148 token launches, and 115 X payments since launch. While reminiscent of the model that BagsApp uses, which is tying royalties to meme creators, Paid’s claim to fame is the direct distribution to X without the need to claim the fees.

How Paid works Paid connects a pump.fun token to an X handle. When someone launches through the platform, creator fees from that token route to Paid, which then converts the $SOL into dollars and sends the proceeds to the designated X account through X Money.

Users can launch through Paid's website by entering a token and selecting an X handle. They can also launch directly on pump.fun by placing an @handle in the token description and directing creator fees to Paid's treasury.

X generates a receipt when a payment settles, and Paid publishes the receipt on its payments feed. The protocol uses 80% of fees for payouts and allocates the remaining 20% toward $PAID buybacks and burns. Once enough funds accumulate, an automated worker uses Jupiter to purchase $PAID on the open market and burns the tokens.

The launchpad’s native token, $PAID, reached an all-time-high market cap of $20 million and currently trades around $12 million.

Paid also reports almost $80,000 worth of $PAID tokens bought and burned, representing 20% of recorded fees, while $8,110 has gone to recipients.

Offramping is Where Things Get Complicated According to the protocol’s documentation, creator fees first move into its Solana treasury. When the 80% payout pool reaches $100, Paid sends the funds to Kraken. Kraken then converts the $SOL to USD and initiates an ACH withdrawal into Paid's X Money balance.

Paid says the process uses Kraken's Spot Trading API and that the only part it cannot accelerate involves ACH settlement, which typically takes 1 to 3 business days.

The protocol says some payments currently show as pending because launch activity has moved faster than ACH settlement. It says pending payments remain recorded and go out automatically as funds arrive.

However, community members have questioned whether the X Money portion actually operates through a public API. 

Some posts claim Paid manually sends payments through an X account, while others have questioned whether the model can handle thousands of simultaneous payouts.

Paid's own explanation says it uses an enrolled security key for its payout worker.

The company has also stated that it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, certified by, or connected to X or X Money. Those details have raised questions about how the integration works and what permissions Paid has obtained.

Regulation and Scalability Questions Some community commentary has also raised US money-transmission concerns because Paid receives creator fees, converts assets into dollars, maintains balances owed to recipients, and sends those funds to third parties.

Those posts do not establish that Paid has violated any law. The legal treatment would depend on the precise structure, entities involved, applicable exemptions, licenses, and any partnerships or authorizations behind the service.

The scalability question also remains open. Paid has already recorded 115 X payments against 4,148 launches, creating a substantial gap between tokens launched and completed payouts. Early figures alone cannot establish whether that gap reflects normal settlement timing, limited payment demand, or operational constraints.

Pump.fun remains Solana’s dominant launchpad with daily revenues often exceeding $1 million. With competitors such as Stonk.fun proving it is possible to, at least temporarily, gain market share, the Paid team will look to quickly establish product-market fit and work toward maintaining the traction they have gained so far. 

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The companion app connects to the ERA hardware wallet to add portfolio management, swaps, and dApp access across 14 networks — while private keys never leave the device. The release follows a full independent security audit by Cure53, and lands alongside a major update to ERA Lens, ERA’s on-device scam-warning system, plus new hardware-side capabilities including Bitcoin multisig and on-device 2FA. 

ERA, the maker of the air-gapped ERA hardware wallet, today announced the launch of the ERA Software Wallet, a companion mobile app for iOS and Android that turns its air-gapped hardware device into a full self-custody ecosystem. The move addresses one of the most common trade-offs in crypto self-custody: hardware wallets are secure but often clunky to use day-to-day, while software wallets are convenient but hold keys online.

ERA’s model keeps the two roles separate by design — the phone prepares transactions, the hardware device signs them, and the private keys never touch the phone at all.

“People don’t abandon self-custody because they don’t believe in it – they abandon it because it’s inconvenient,” said Alex Devyatkin, founder and CEO of ERA. “The Software Wallet doesn’t change what secures your assets. It changes how easy it is to actually use that security every day.”

What’s in the ERA Software WalletThe app gives users a single interface to manage assets across 14 networks – Bitcoin (SegWit, Taproot, and Legacy address types), Ethereum, Solana, Tron, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Gnosis, zkSync, Kaia, and Aurora – while every transaction is still confirmed and signed on the ERA hardware device via QR or NFC.

Inside the app, users can:

View portfolio balances across all supported networks, with each token clearly tagged by network
Send and receive assets, with a network guard that prevents funds from being sent to the wrong chain
Buy and sell crypto through integrated providers, with automatic KYC/country detection and side-by-side rate comparison
Swap and bridge across chains in a single flow, powered by Rango’s routing, with a full quote shown before signing
Connect to dApps via WalletConnect, with sessions still requiring hardware-signed approval
Get proactive protection: warnings on unused token approvals, a spam-token filter, alerts on pending or stuck transactions, and full transaction history
App-level security includes PIN and biometric unlock (Face ID / Touch ID / fingerprint), auto-lock when the app is backgrounded, and screen-privacy protections that hide app content from the system app switcher and block screenshots and screen recording.

Backed by an Independent Security AuditAhead of launch, ERA commissioned a full white-box security audit from Cure53, a cybersecurity firm with an established track record auditing wallets and crypto infrastructure. Cure53 was given access to source code, builds, documentation, and internal components, and tested the mobile app, API, transaction construction, and QR/BC-UR signing flows. Every finding was fixed by ERA’s team and then retested by Cure53 to confirm the fix held.

The summary and full technical reports are public:

Summary report (PDF)
Full pentest report (PDF)
The Headline Device Update: ERA Lens’s New Scam-Warning SystemThe main update on the device side is to ERA Lens, ERA’s built-in transaction-decoding layer, which translates what a transaction actually does into plain language before signing rather than showing raw hex data.

This release adds a new scam-warning display, expands coverage to more DeFi and bridging protocols (including Rango, imToken, Rabby, MetaMask Portfolio Bridge, Mayan, Squid, LayerSwap, Stargate V2, GasZip, and Magpie), and can now decode newer, harder-to-read transaction formats such as EIP-7702, ERC-7821, and Safe multicalls — flagging unlimited approvals to unfamiliar addresses automatically.

The team also added 37 real transactions drawn from known incidents – including Bybit, WazirX, Radiant, Inferno Drainer, and PREMINT – to its automated test suite, so every new firmware release is checked against these attack patterns before shipping.

Extended Protection, Built Into the AppOn the mobile side, the Software Wallet adds extended protection aimed at scams that target wallet users directly rather than the underlying blockchain. The home screen now surfaces a plain-language warning for unused token approvals, with a dedicated screen showing exactly which contract can spend how much of which token, in which network, revocable in one confirmation.

The app also guards against address poisoning — fake transaction records designed to trick users into copying a lookalike address from their own history. Between July 2 and August 1, 2026, ERA tracked 66 such fake entries across 24 poisoned addresses, spanning 8 wallets and 8 networks; if a recipient address is a near-identical copy of one of a user’s own addresses, sending is blocked outright, with no override.

Also New: Progressive Security on the Hardware DeviceAlongside the software wallet launch, ERA is rolling out further capabilities to the hardware device itself, continuing its “wallet you never outgrow” model — meaning users can move to more advanced security setups without switching devices.

Bitcoin multisig support – the ERA device can act as one cosigner in a Bitcoin multisig setup, for example holding one key in a 2-of-3 arrangement, removing any single point of failure.
On-device two-factor authentication – TOTP authentication codes can now be stored directly on the ERA hardware device, adding a second layer of digital security on the same hardware that protects private keys.
Device authenticity verification – separately from how transactions are signed, the ERA device can prove it is a genuine, unmodified unit by signing a one-time challenge with a factory-burned key, a check that takes under a minute.
About ERAERA (HWLT FZE) is a Dubai-based digital security company building the ERA Wallet ecosystem: an air-gapped hardware wallet, a companion multichain software wallet, and a built-in transaction-protection layer, ERA Lens.

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Kamino has appointed Yieldstreet co-founder Michael Weisz as chief executive as the Solana lending protocol builds a New York operation and expands its U.S. business around institutional credit and tokenized assets.

Summary

Kamino appointed Yieldstreet co-founder Michael Weisz as CEO to lead its U.S. institutional expansion efforts. Kamino plans a New York headquarters while building finance, legal, compliance and business development teams. DefiLlama tracks Kamino at roughly $1.43 billion in TVL and $1.02 billion active loans currently. Kamino says PRIME deposits surpassed $600 million within 107 days using Figure-linked home-equity loan collateral. Forward Industries confirms tokenized FWDI shares can serve as collateral on Kamino for eligible investors. The Kamino announcement said Weisz will oversee the U.S. expansion, work with institutional asset managers and financial platforms, and assemble a New York-based team spanning finance, product, legal, compliance and business development.

The appointment brings a traditional-finance executive into one of Solana’s largest lending protocols. Weisz co-founded Yieldstreet, now Willow Wealth, where the platform deployed more than $6 billion and served more than 500,000 individual investors, according to Kamino. The company named Goldman Sachs, Carlyle, KKR, Ares, Fortress and StepStone among firms that worked alongside Yieldstreet.

We are thrilled to announce Michael Weisz (@WeiszM) as the new CEO of Kamino

After more than a two decades in fintech & private markets, Michael joins Kamino to lead us into our next chapter of institutional growth, and expand Kamino to the US market

A letter from Michael below pic.twitter.com/FjxtkN1dvn

— Kamino (@kamino) September 15, 2026 Kamino is building its New York operation around institutions New York will serve as the base for Kamino’s institutional expansion, placing the protocol close to asset managers, financial platforms, regulated service providers and capital providers it plans to work with.

“Being in New York puts us at the intersection” of asset managers and institutions, Weisz said in the company announcement. He said putting assets onchain creates opportunities around collateral, settlement and distribution, while firms still require legal, compliance, operational, credit and liquidity infrastructure.

CoinDesk reported that Kamino is considering roughly 20,000 square feet of office space and intends to recruit a chief financial officer and head of legal. Kamino’s formal announcement confirmed that it is evaluating New York City office space but did not specify its size.

Weisz’s new role follows nearly a decade building Yieldstreet. A 2025 corporate biography from NextNRG described him as Yieldstreet’s founder and former CEO and said the investment platform had deployed more than $6 billion across multiple asset classes under his leadership.

Kamino tokenized asset lending already includes credit and equities Kamino’s institutional plans build on live lending markets tied to real-world assets. Its PRIME market, created with Figure Technologies and Hastra, brings yield generated by Figure’s lending business into Solana-based DeFi markets.

Figure Technologies said in December 2025 that Kamino would serve as the exclusive onchain credit and lending partner for PRIME. Figure said its Democratized Prime business supplies yields generated from more than $1 billion per month in onchain loan originations, including pools linked to home-equity lending.

Kamino now says PRIME deposits surpassed $600 million within 107 days of launch. The figure is a company-reported deposit total and has not been presented as an independently audited asset figure.

Public equities have entered the same lending framework. Forward Industries confirmed in December 2025 that eligible non-U.S. holders of tokenized FWDI shares could post the stock as collateral on Kamino and borrow stablecoins while retaining exposure to their shares. The tokenized securities use Superstate’s Opening Bell system, with Superstate acting as the registered transfer agent.

Galaxy has documented a comparable use case for its own stock. Its second-quarter Solana report said tokenized GLXY shares became available as collateral on Kamino through Superstate in April 2026. Galaxy said more than $17 million of Superstate-issued assets, including GLXY, were sitting as borrowable collateral at the time of its report.

Ascrypto.news previously reported, Kamino Lend held approximately $41.7 million of tokenized-stock DeFi TVL, ranking second behind Uniswap V4’s $59.1 million based on Token Terminal data. The measured category covered equity-linked tokens deposited across decentralized exchanges, lending markets and related applications.

DefiLlama puts Kamino TVL above $1.4 billion Current DefiLlama data places Kamino’s total value locked near $1.43 billion, all on Solana, with approximately $1.02 billion in active loans. The data provider lists cumulative protocol fees at roughly $249 million and cumulative revenue near $50.3 million.

Kamino separately says it has processed more than $650 billion in cumulative transaction volume over four years and originated more than $20 billion in loans. The company claims it has recorded no user bad debt or security incident while undergoing more than 30 independent audits and four formal verifications. Its announcement did not provide an independent audit covering the cumulative operating figures.

KMNO showed little price reaction following the leadership announcement. Market data listed the token close to $0.025 on Sept. 16, placing its market capitalization at approximately $138 million.

DefiLlama’s protocol figures show lending assets remain far larger than the market value of the governance token, while Kamino continues to rank among Solana’s largest lending applications by locked assets.

Solana’s tokenized asset market has expanded during 2026. In June, crypto.news reported that Solana’s real-world asset value reached $2.7 billion, citing RWA Foundation data. The figure covered tokenized funds, credit products, securities and related assets distributed through the network.

New York hiring comes as U.S. crypto rules remain unsettled Kamino framed its U.S. expansion partly around changes in American digital-asset policy. Its Sept. 15 announcement cited the GENIUS Act, regulatory treatment of bank crypto activities and congressional work on crypto market-structure legislation.

One part of that policy backdrop changed hours after Kamino issued its release. The U.S. Senate voted 49-50 on Sept. 15 against invoking cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, the CLARITY Act. The motion required three-fifths support, and the official Senate record lists the procedural effort as rejected.

The vote did not repeal existing crypto rules or prevent regulators from acting under current statutory authority. It stopped the bill from clearing that procedural stage on Sept. 15, while the Senate record did not provide a new vote date.

Kamino has not announced a deadline for opening its New York office or completing the planned hiring. The company said it is evaluating office space and plans to build teams covering finance, product, legal, compliance and business development while continuing to develop its Solana-based infrastructure.

Editorial Note

Alongside its fast-moving short-term contracts, Zoomex Prediction Markets has always carried a deep Long-Term category, a full slate of event contracts that let traders take a position on some of the industry’s most debated multi-month and multi-year questions.

That category is a direct expression of Zoomex’s core philosophy, giving users a platform that is Easy to Use, Transparent by Design, and built on Fair Access & Rule-Based Execution, whether they are trading derivatives, spot, or real-world outcomes.

A Marketplace Built Across Every Time HorizonZoomex’s Prediction Markets are organized into four time horizons: 5 Minute, 15 Minute, 4 Hour, and Long-Term. Across the platform, 70 markets are currently live, with the Long-Term category alone accounting for 49 of them, by far the largest segment.

That balance reflects where user interest concentrates: away from pure short-term speculation and toward markets that track how the crypto industry evolves over the coming year and beyond.

Prediction Markets Source: ZoomexThe shorter time frames still play an important role in the Zoomex ecosystem. The 5 Minute “Up or Down” markets, for instance, let traders react instantly to price momentum on major assets. At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s 5-minute market showed 28% sentiment toward Up with $11M in trading volume, the most active market on the board.

Ethereum and XRP each sat at 13% Up, with $356K and $55K in volume, respectively. Solana and Dogecoin were both trading at 6% Up, on $154K and $13K in volume, while HYPE stood out with 56% sentiment toward Up on $533 in volume. These fast-moving markets are a useful entry point, but they are only a fraction of what Zoomex offers.

Long-Term Markets: Where the Real Conviction Trades HappenThe Long-Term category is where Zoomex Prediction Markets show their real depth, giving users a rule-based way to express views on questions that will take months or years to resolve, all settled transparently against clear, published criteria rather than opaque or discretionary outcomes.

Long Term Markets. Source: ZoomexSeveral markets illustrate the breadth of what is now tradable on Zoomex:

Will HYPE flip SOL by December 31? Currently pricing Yes at 9%, this market has already attracted $224K in trading volume as traders weigh whether Hyperliquid’s native token can overtake Solana by market capitalization before year-end. Will China unban Bitcoin by 2027? One of the platform’s largest Long-Term markets by volume at $1M, priced at just 2% Yes, reflecting how unlikely traders view a near-term reversal of China’s crypto policy stance. Bitcoin vs. Gold vs. S&P 500 in 2026, a multi-asset market with $917K in volume, where Bitcoin is priced at 19% and Gold at 25% for their respective Yes outcomes, giving users a direct way to position on which asset class performs best over the year. Will MicroStrategy announce bankruptcy before 2027? Priced at 3% Yes with $203K in volume, this market lets traders express a view on the durability of one of the most closely watched corporate Bitcoin treasury strategies. Adam Back confirmed to be Satoshi by December 31? and the broader Will Satoshi’s identity be proven? market, priced at 2% Yes each, with volumes of $23K and $2M respectively, show that even crypto’s oldest mystery now has a liquid, tradable market attached to it. Each of these markets displays a live probability gauge alongside simple Yes/No or Up/Down entry buttons and a running trading volume figure, giving users full visibility into market sentiment before they trade. That level of transparency is central to how Zoomex designs every product on the platform, prediction markets included.

To put the payoff structure in concrete terms, each Long-Term contract is priced as a share of its eventual full payout, so the entry price effectively sets the potential return. A trader who commits roughly €100 to the China unban Bitcoin by 2027 market, currently priced at 2% Yes, would be positioned for a payout near €5,000 if the outcome resolves Yes, reflecting how thin the market judges that probability to be. The same €100 stake on the MicroStrategy bankruptcy market, priced at 3% Yes, would target a payout close to €3,233 in profit, while a position on the HYPE flip SOL by December 31 market, priced at 9% Yes, would return roughly €1,011 in profit on the same stake. On the three-way Bitcoin vs. Gold vs. S&P 500 in 2026 market, a €100 stake on Bitcoin’s 19% Yes price would target about €426 in profit, compared with roughly €300 on Gold’s 25% Yes price.

It is worth noting that these figures are illustrative, based on the price at the moment a position is entered, and do not account for fees or spread, so they should not be read as a guaranteed outcome. Because Zoomex Predict World lets users adjust or exit their prediction shares before an event resolves, actual returns depend on how a trader manages the position over time, not solely on the final Yes or No result, another expression of the platform’s Fair Access & Rule-Based Execution standard.

Why Long-Term Prediction Markets Fit the Zoomex ModelPrediction markets are a natural extension of Zoomex’s positioning as a platform Focused on Derivatives. Just as futures and perpetuals let traders express a view on price direction, Long-Term prediction contracts let them express a view on the events that ultimately drive those prices, regulatory shifts, competitive dynamics between assets, corporate solvency, and even the unresolved lore of the industry itself. Instead of forcing users to piece together multiple instruments to hedge or speculate on these themes, Zoomex consolidates them into single, clearly priced contracts.

That consolidation is only useful if the execution behind it can be trusted, which is why every Zoomex Prediction Market runs on the same Fair Access & Rule-Based Execution standard that governs the exchange’s core trading products. Odds update in real time based on actual market activity, not a black box, and settlement follows clearly defined resolution criteria rather than subjective judgment calls. Combined with the platform’s Refined Brand & Trading Experience, traders move between derivatives, spot, and prediction markets inside one unified interface, without needing to learn a separate tool or manage liquidity across disconnected venues.

About Zoomex

Founded in 2021, Zoomex is a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives trading. The platform serves over 3 million users across 35+ countries and regions, offering access to 700+ trading pairs. Built around easy to use, transparency, fairness, and speed, Zoomex provides a clear and efficient trading experience for users worldwide.

Through its high-performance matching engine, clear asset and order displays, and transparent fee and rule mechanisms, Zoomex helps users better understand their account status, order execution, trading costs, and results. Zoomex maintains registrations, licenses, and regulatory statuses across multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S. MSB, Canada MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, and has completed security audits conducted by blockchain security firm Hacken. The platform also continues to strengthen its trust framework through Proof of Reserves, Security & Transparency, Compliance Information, and Fees / Rules Transparency initiatives.

Beyond trading, Zoomex builds a refined brand experience through elite sports partnerships, including the TGR Haas F1 Team, World Cup-winning goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez, and world-class tennis events such as Wimbledon. The values of speed, precision, discipline, fair play, and rule-based execution are closely aligned with Zoomex’s approach to derivatives trading.

At Zoomex: Easy to Use. Transparent balance. Fair access to your earnings.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Zoomex? Zoomex is a global crypto derivatives platform founded in 2021, serving over 3 million users across more than 35 countries and regions with 700+ trading pairs. How does Zoomex work? Zoomex operates through a high-performance matching engine with transparent asset and order displays, allowing users to execute trades and track outcomes with full visibility into their balances and results. What can you trade on Zoomex? Zoomex offers 700+ trading pairs spanning cryptocurrencies such as BTC, ETH, and SOL, as well as stock-linked contracts like NVDA and AAPL and gold exposure through XAUT. How does Zoomex compare to other exchanges? Zoomex differentiates itself by not issuing a platform token, avoiding venture capital or incubation deals, and holding security certifications from Hacken alongside regulatory licenses in multiple jurisdictions, positioning the platform around transparency and fund safety rather than token incentives. Where is Zoomex headquartered? Zoomex operates as a global cryptocurrency exchange with regulatory registrations including Canada MSB, U.S. MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, reflecting its multi-jurisdictional compliance approach. Is Zoomex available in my country? Zoomex serves users across more than 35 countries and regions. Availability can vary by local regulation, so traders should check the official Zoomex website for country-specific access and requirements. Disclaimer

This third-party press release is published substantially as received and does not reflect BeInCrypto's editorial views. BeInCrypto has not independently verified its claims or assessed the suitability, legality or appropriateness of any referenced asset, product or service; publication is not an endorsement. The content is general information, not investment research, financial, investment, legal or tax advice, a personal recommendation, offer or solicitation. Verify all information and seek professional advice where appropriate before acting. Crypto-assets may result in total loss.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko amplified a tokenized dinosaur skull sale on Wednesday, posting three dinosaur emojis as the $660,000 raise entered its final hours.

Jurassic Finance wants to move Deaton, a Triceratops prorsus skull, onto Solana as one million tradable tokens. The raise had covered 61% of its target early Wednesday.

Tokenized Dinosaur Skull Sale Passes $400,000Contributors had committed $406,667 in USDC by Wednesday morning, the project’s dashboard showed. Roughly 13 hours remained on the clock.

Deaton fundraising dashboard. Source: Jurassic Finance.The split is simple. Jurassic Finance will spend $600,000 acquiring the fossil, while $60,000 lands in its labs treasury. Each TRCH1 token costs about $0.69 and carries one-millionth of Deaton.

Ownership runs through a special purpose vehicle. Holders get economic rights to the fossil rather than direct title to the bone, the team says.

However, the offer runs on an all-or-nothing basis. Contributors get a full refund if the target falls short, and the project will not accept oversubscription.

That structure matters, because tokenized assets still face unresolved questions over what holders actually own.

A 66-Million-Year-Old Fossil With a Fresh Price CompExcavators pulled Deaton from the Hell Creek Formation in Slope County, North Dakota, in 1999. Preparation only finished last year.

All three original horns survive. The specimen is 60% to 65% complete by bone mass, which puts it in museum-grade territory.

Jurassic Finance leans on a recent auction result. Sofia, a comparable sub-adult Triceratops skull, fetched $840,000 on July 1 against a $600,000 to $800,000 estimate.

The team plans to place Deaton on long-term museum loan rather than in storage.

“Museums fund all operational overhead in exchange for display rights.”

Meanwhile, Solana keeps drawing unusual collectibles, from a tokenized One Piece manga to equities. The project first outlined its fossil plan in July.

The timing is awkward, though. SOL traded near $97 on Wednesday, down about 4% over 24 hours.

Whether buyers cover the remaining $253,000 before the clock runs out will test how far RWA appetite now stretches beyond stocks and bonds.

TLDR Solana activated Transaction V1 on mainnet September 15, raising max transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes. The upgrade gives developers about 3.3 times more space for signatures, instructions, and proof data in one transaction. Zero-knowledge proofs and large multisignature transactions benefit most from the added space. Legacy transaction formats still work, but some wallets and data providers may need updates to read the new format. Solana’s on-chain revenue reached $327 million in Q3 so far, up from $265 million in Q2. Solana activated its Transaction V1 upgrade on mainnet this week. The change raises the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes.

The upgrade went live at the start of epoch 1035 on September 15 at approximately 01:20 UTC, according to the Solana Foundation.

This gives developers about 3.3 times more room for instructions, signatures, and cryptographic data inside a single transaction. It does not mean the network processes more transactions per second. Instead, each transaction can now carry more data.

How the Upgrade Works The old 1,232-byte limit came from an early design choice. Transactions had to fit inside a roughly 1,280-byte internet packet, leaving 1,232 bytes after networking overhead.

Solana later changed how it sends transaction traffic, making that original restriction less needed. Developers still had to split complex operations across multiple transactions to stay under the byte limit.

Transaction V1 lets larger operations settle in a single transaction instead. This can reduce cost and delay in some cases, since fewer signatures and only one confirmation may be needed.

Zero-knowledge proofs and large multisignature transactions gain the most from the extra space. These operations often require large amounts of cryptographic data that previously did not fit.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has pointed to future uses involving zero-knowledge roots and based rollups, where larger transactions could combine proofs and state changes in one step.

Existing legacy and v0 transaction formats still work. Developers only need to use the new format when they want access to the larger limit.

Some infrastructure, including wallets and block explorers, may need updates. These services must recognize the new format and read priority fee data correctly, since Transaction V1 stores that information differently.

Solana’s Network Activity and Revenue Solana processed close to 10 billion non-vote transactions in the first quarter of 2026, an all-time high. The network saw around 9.7 billion in the second quarter.

On-chain revenue across the network reached $327 million in the third quarter so far. That is up from $265 million in the second quarter, an increase of 23.4%.

This revenue comes from activity across memecoins, decentralized exchanges, derivatives, and stablecoins on the network.

More transaction capacity could support further activity in these areas going forward. Higher activity has the potential to translate into higher fees and stronger network revenue over time.

Solana settled on 4,096 bytes partly because that figure matches a common memory page size used by validator hardware. Going higher could force transactions to span multiple memory pages, adding processing load for validators.

Larger transactions still use more network resources. Developers may need to pay higher priority fees during periods of network congestion, though the upgrade does not add a separate per-byte fee.

The next phase depends on how quickly developers and infrastructure providers adopt the new format across wallets, explorers, and trading applications.

Solana, a blockchain network known for its emphasis on high throughput and low fees, has rolled out its Transaction V1 upgrade on the mainnet. The enhancement, implemented at the start of epoch 1035 on September 15, increases the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes, offering greater flexibility for developers and users alike.

Technical details and upgrade implementationThe previous 1,232-byte transaction limit stemmed from Solana’s early decision to pack each transaction within a 1,280-byte internet packet—accounting for networking overhead. As the network matured and adjusted its transaction-routing methods, this technical restriction became less relevant for developers aiming to build more complex applications.

With Transaction V1, developers now have access to about 3.3 times more space for signatures, instructions, and cryptographic proof data within a single transaction. While this modification does not directly increase the number of transactions per second processed by the network, it does enable a wider range of actions to fit inside an individual transaction.

The upgrade is especially beneficial for projects using zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs and large multisignature arrangements, which traditionally require extensive cryptographic data that previously could not be accommodated within a single Solana transaction.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko highlighted that these changes could pave the way for more efficient use of zero-knowledge roots and future innovations, such as rollup technology, by enabling proofs and state changes to be bundled together.

Mini dictionary: Zero-knowledge proofs, or ZK-proofs, are cryptographic protocols that allow one party to prove to another that a statement is true without revealing any underlying information beyond the validity of the statement itself. In blockchain, ZK-proofs enhance privacy and scalability for various applications.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has stated that larger transaction capabilities open the door for combining proofs and multi-step state transitions, allowing developers to design more powerful decentralized applications with fewer bottlenecks.

Older transaction types, including legacy and v0 formats, remain usable after the upgrade. However, infrastructure like wallets and data providers may need to update their systems to recognize the new format and properly process priority fee information, as Transaction V1 stores these details differently.

Impact on developers and network infrastructureDevelopers can reduce operational costs by compressing what would have been multiple transactions into a single, larger one, lowering confirmation delays and streamlining workflows. However, higher network congestion could still compel developers to pay greater priority fees for larger transactions, though there is no additional fee per byte with this upgrade.

The 4,096-byte cap was chosen to align with the common memory page size used by most validator hardware, minimizing unnecessary processing burden. Pushing transaction sizes beyond this level could require additional memory management steps, raising the resource requirements placed on validators.

Transaction FormatMaximum Size (Bytes)Common Use CaseLegacy / v01,232Basic transfers, simple DeFiTransaction V14,096Zero-knowledge proofs, multisignature, advanced operationsThe pace of adoption now hinges on how quickly developers migrate to the new transaction format and how promptly wallet providers, explorers, and related platforms implement the necessary updates to ensure smooth user experiences.

Network activity and revenue performanceSolana’s network activity has remained robust, processing nearly 10 billion non-vote transactions in the first quarter of 2026, setting an all-time high for the chain. In the following quarter, network volume hovered around 9.7 billion transactions.

On-chain revenue has also seen strong growth. In the third quarter of 2026 so far, Solana’s network revenue reached $327 million, up from $265 million in the second quarter. This represents a 23.4% increase, with revenue fueled by the surge of activity in memecoins, decentralized exchanges, stablecoins, and derivatives platforms operating on Solana.

Higher transaction capacity could provide further support for new and existing decentralized applications, potentially resulting in continued revenue gains in upcoming quarters as network usage expands.

The Transaction V1 upgrade is expected to encourage expanded use cases and greater adoption, solidifying Solana’s position among leading layer-1 blockchains.

A new v1 transaction format lifts the ceiling on a single Solana transaction from 1,232 bytes to 4,096, letting operations that once had to be split across several transactions, including zero-knowledge proofs and large multisigs, fit in one.

Solana lifts transaction size cap to 4,096 bytes for zero-knowledge proofs

Posted September 15, 2026 at 4:59 pm EST.

Solana raised the maximum size of a single transaction to 4,096 bytes from 1,232, a 3.3x increase that went live on the network’s main chain early Tuesday at the start of epoch 1035, around 01:00 UTC.

The change arrives through a new v1 transaction format, set out in two Solana Improvement Documents: SIMD-0296 raises the size limit, and SIMD-0385 defines the format. It is live on mainnet, testnet and devnet.

The old 1,232-byte ceiling forced developers to break larger operations into several chained transactions. The Solana Foundation says the extra room lets that work fit into a single transaction, including the zero-knowledge proofs used in confidential transfers, large multisigs, batched operations, and newer signature schemes such as Winternitz one-time signatures and BLS.

What Developers Have to Do Older v0 and legacy transactions keep working, so wallets and apps that do not need the extra space are unaffected. Anything that wants the larger size has to adopt v1, and anything that reads Solana data has to recognize the new format before it can parse those transactions. Validators running Jito-Solana and RPC nodes running Agave are told to move to version 4.2.2 or later, because earlier releases downgrade a v1 transaction back to v0.

The 4,096-byte figure is not arbitrary. It matches the standard 4 KiB memory page used by validator hardware, and it caps how costly a single transaction can be to move, since anything larger than the network’s packet size has to be split across multiple data frames that are more expensive to relay reliably.

One of a Run of Changes The increase continues a steady cadence of protocol upgrades. Solana has been stepping its slot time down from 400 milliseconds toward a 200-millisecond target, reaching 300 so far, while its tokenomics have been under debate since the spring.

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As the self-custody wallet market matures beyond a single selling point, traders holding Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), XRP and other cryptocurrencies are evaluating meaningfully different wallet architectures, each with genuine trade-offs.

For most of crypto’s history, the case for self-custody fit into four words: not your keys, not your coins. In 2026, that argument is largely won. The harder question for traders managing Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins such as USDT and USDC, and other digital assets is now: which wallet, and why?

The numbers tell two stories at once. Fifty-nine percent of crypto wallet users globally say they prefer non-custodial solutions, but Ledger estimates that only 30 million of 400 million crypto users worldwide actually practise self-custody, and just 10 million do so securely.

The gap between stated preference and practice has a cause: friction. Non-custodial swap volumes still rose more than 340% year-over-year through early 2026, hardware wallet sales reached $560 million in 2025, and the non-custodial wallet market is projected to grow from $4.8 billion to $18.3 billion by 2033.

The infrastructure being built to close that friction gap is also what makes the differences between today’s self-custody wallet options important for Bitcoin, Ethereum and altcoin traders.

Five wallets currently represent meaningfully different approaches.

Vymopay: Telegram-Native Self-Custody With AML Screening

Vymopay⁠ is a Telegram-native non-custodial wallet that requires no separate application download. It is built around a problem most self-custody options leave unaddressed: what happens to a trader’s wallet identity at the moment Bitcoin, Ethereum or another cryptocurrency is withdrawn from a centralized exchange.

Its Shield Address feature generates an intermediate receiving address. Funds sent to that address are automatically screened for AML risk and then forwarded to the user’s actual wallet without disclosing the final destination to the sender or originating exchange.

The feature is designed to reduce the risk of directly linking on-chain activity to a CEX-verified identity while keeping compliance controls intact.

Vymopay’s main features include:

Shield Address: Private forwarding with automatic AML screening; the user’s actual wallet address is not disclosed to the sender or exchange. Exchange: Market and limit orders executed from the same interface, with instant fill notifications. Crypto loans: Stablecoin liquidity against crypto collateral without requiring the immediate sale of the underlying asset. Staking: Users can stake and unstake supported crypto assets directly from the bot, with rewards tracked in one place. Up to 500 dedicated deposit addresses per asset: Per-customer or per-transaction attribution without manual reconciliation. Freeze Alert: Continuous wallet monitoring with real-time alerts and recurring AML reports. The trade-offs are also real. Vymopay has a shorter track record than MetaMask or Ledger, its distribution is dependent on Telegram, and its blockchain coverage is narrower than Trust Wallet’s.

MetaMask: A Leading Wallet for Ethereum and EVM Networks

MetaMask is the default entry point for activity on Ethereum and other EVM-compatible networks. It has more than 30 million monthly active users and deep integration across decentralized finance protocols.

Private keys are stored locally in the browser extension or mobile application, and no account registration is required.

Its primary limitation is structural. MetaMask is EVM-focused by default, provides no built-in AML screening and does not address the wallet-linkage issue that arises when a user withdraws Ethereum or another supported asset from a centralized exchange. The destination address remains recorded by the exchange.

Trust Wallet: Broad Support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Altcoins

Trust Wallet covers the broadest blockchain range among the mobile-native options included in this comparison. It supports more than 100 blockchains, including major networks used for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL) and a wide range of altcoins.

The wallet reports approximately 220 million users and provides built-in access to decentralized exchanges. Its fast setup process is one reason it is commonly among the first wallets encountered by traders leaving centralized exchanges.

The trade-off is similar to MetaMask’s. Trust Wallet does not provide built-in compliance tooling or a mechanism that separates a trader’s on-chain activity from an exchange-verified identity during the withdrawal process.

Ledger: Offline Storage for Bitcoin and Ethereum Holdings

Ledger hardware wallets keep private keys entirely offline. This is why they remain a standard recommendation for the long-term storage of high-value Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrency holdings.

Ledger Live supports most major blockchain networks and allows users to access features such as staking through the same interface.

The cost is ergonomic. Signing a transaction requires access to the physical device. For traders actively managing multiple positions, that additional friction can accumulate quickly.

The device may also be lost, damaged or confiscated. These risks exist in a different form from those associated with software wallets.

Exodus: Accessible Multi-Chain Desktop and Mobile Wallet

Exodus provides a multi-chain desktop and mobile wallet experience with built-in exchange and staking features. No account registration is required, and its design prioritises accessibility over technical depth.

Private keys are stored on the user’s device rather than dedicated hardware, placing Exodus below Ledger on the cold-storage security spectrum.

Exodus does not include dedicated compliance tooling, and its developer ecosystem is narrower than MetaMask’s for decentralized finance integrations.

What Bitcoin and Ethereum Traders Should Check Before Leaving an Exchange

No single self-custody wallet dominates across every category.

Cold-storage security points toward Ledger. Broad blockchain support and mobile accessibility point toward Trust Wallet. Ethereum-native and EVM-based DeFi integration point toward MetaMask. A multi-chain desktop experience with an accessible interface points toward Exodus.

Business-grade address management, private forwarding and integrated AML tooling point toward Vymopay, alongside the important caveat that a newer platform has less historical evidence showing how it performs under prolonged market and security pressure.

Before withdrawing Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins or altcoins from a centralized exchange, traders should therefore consider:

How and where private keys are stored. Which blockchain networks and crypto assets are supported. Whether the wallet provides AML or transaction-risk screening. Whether the withdrawal address becomes permanently connected to a CEX-verified identity. How recovery phrases and account recovery are managed. Whether the wallet is intended for active trading or long-term storage. The platform’s security history, audits and operational track record. Whether staking, exchange and lending features introduce additional smart-contract or counterparty risks. The right wallet ultimately depends on how the trader balances security, privacy, blockchain coverage, compliance requirements and ease of use.

About Vymopay

Vymopay is a non-custodial digital asset platform built inside Telegram. It is designed for individuals, traders, businesses and payment providers that need to manage, exchange, protect and grow digital assets, including widely traded cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, without switching between multiple applications.

Users retain control of their keys and funds at all times. AML compliance tools are integrated directly into the platform rather than being added as a separate external process.

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High transaction activity is one of the leading indicators of a network’s strength.

Solana looks to have such at the moment. With the V1 upgrade now live, every transaction can hold 4,096 bytes, up from 1,232 bytes.

To put it simply, think of a transaction as a small block with limited space. Previously, the block could hold 1,232 bytes of data, and now it can hold 4,096 bytes of data, giving Solana more room for data in each transaction. 

This makes the chart below more interesting. Solana is already entering the final quarter with great on-chain action, and 2026 is shaping up to be a record year.

For reference, non-vote transactions on the blockchain crossed over 10 billion in Q1, hitting an all-time high, before reaching around 9.7 billion in Q2.

Source: Blockworks So, in technical terms, this means that the network is already processing nearly 10 billion transactions (excluding votes) per quarter on average. That said, with each transaction now holding 3.3x more data than before, it naturally creates room for much bigger applications. 

According to the Solana Foundation, this is particularly important for ZKP proofs, large multisignature transactions, and many more.

Simply put, operations that previously required a broad range of instructions to fit into one transaction are now possible on Solana, bringing a large number of new users onto the network. 

In this regard, Solana’s 10+ billion transactions could only be the start. The true test, however, will be if this usage translates into higher levels of economic value for the ecosystem and therefore, the SOL token.

Solana’s financial strength gets a new catalyst Looking at Solana’s [SOL] fundamentals, one thing stands out: The network is highly diversified.

In other words, Solana as a platform has been supportive of memecoins, DEXs, and derivatives, thus covering a significant portion of the crypto market. From this perspective, the V1 upgrade can be seen as a critical step forward, as larger transactions give these applications more room to process complex activity.

And the benefits that the network’s layer can bring are already reflected in the numbers.

As the chart below shows, the revenue of the on-chain economy in Solana across all these segments has reached an impressive $327 million in Q3 so far, up from $265 million in Q2. It represents an increase of 23.4%, showing that the network activity is already translating into stronger financial growth.

Source: DeFiLlama Now, with the V1 upgrade in place, this financial growth could get another boost.

Sure, the upgrade does not automatically mean higher revenue, but more transaction capacity can support greater activity across DeFi, stablecoins, DEXs and derivatives. If that activity continues to grow, it could translate into higher fees and stronger network revenue.

And with Solana already seeing strong transaction activity (the 10 billion reported earlier), the V1 upgrade gives the network more room to “scale.” Over time, this could strengthen the financial value of the ecosystem and support SOL’s broader growth.

Final Summary V1 gives Solana 3.3x more transaction space, creating more room for apps and users. Solana’s Q3 revenue is already up 23.4%, and more activity could further boost fees and SOL.

In brief DeFi Development Corp's SOL treasury grew by 55,491 tokens to approximately 2,388,923 SOL and SOL equivalents, a roughly 2% increase since August 27. The company established a $300 million at-the-market program for its CHAD preferred stock. DFDV said SOL has outperformed the Nasdaq-100 by 39% quarter-to-date, while its own shares have outperformed SOL by 2x over that same stretch. Solana treasury company DeFi Development Corp. added 55,491 SOL, worth roughly $5.78 million, to its balance sheet, pushing its treasury to roughly 2,388,923 SOL and SOL equivalents.

The Nasdaq-listed company disclosed the purchase Monday alongside a new $300 million at-the-market program for its Variable Rate Series C Perpetual Preferred Stock, ticker CHAD. The combined moves extend a fast-moving stretch of capital markets activity that started in late August.

Myriad: Where does Solana's price go next? Click to make your prediction.The new treasury figure represents a roughly 2% gain since August 27, when DeFi Development Corp’s holdings stood near 2.33 million SOL. The company, which trades as DFDV on the Nasdaq, calls itself the first U.S. public company built around a Solana accumulation strategy. It runs its own validator infrastructure alongside the treasury, earning staking rewards on top of price exposure to SOL.

The at-the-market strategy lets DFDV sell up to $300 million in CHAD shares over time through R.F. Lafferty & Co., a New York broker-dealer acting as sole sales agent.

Establishing the program isn't an immediate raise—DFDV isn't obligated to sell any shares, and issuance is subject to market conditions and investor demand. The company said it intends to sell only at or above $10.00 per share, CHAD's stated par value, with net proceeds earmarked mainly for more SOL purchases.

CEO Joseph Onorati tied the program to what the company calls its "accumulation flywheel"—raising capital, buying SOL, generating yield, and repeating. “With a $300 million ATM now in place, we have the structure to scale CHAD into a meaningful new engine of growth—and we intend to issue at or above $10.00 par. The flywheel is spinning, and we now have more capacity to put it to work,” he said.

CHAD is barely a week old. DeFi Development closed its inaugural offering on September 8, raising about $11 million with participation from Fundstrat's Tom Lee. Because CHAD is non-convertible preferred equity, DFDV can raise through it without diluting common shareholders or growing its share count.

The CHAD offering itself had moved fast. DFDV first floated a $20 million target for the preferred stock on September 1, pricing shares at $9 each in a preliminary prospectus before settling on final terms of $8 a share and a smaller $11 million raise at closing. That same week, the company separately disclosed a 19,000-SOL purchase funded in part by the sale of its ZeroStack position, lifting its treasury to about 2.33 million SOL ahead of Monday's update.

DFDV pointed to relative performance to make that case. Quarter-to-date, the company said SOL has outperformed the Nasdaq-100 by 39%, while DFDV shares have beaten SOL itself by 2x over the same period. Those numbers have climbed since late August, when the company reported SOL beating the Nasdaq-100 by 33% and DFDV outperforming SOL by 1.8x.

Net proceeds from the CHAD ATM are intended primarily to fund additional SOL purchases, the same use DFDV assigned to the $11 million CHAD offering it closed on September 8.

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Solana is one of the fastest blockchains on the market, with its infrastructure designed to process transactions quickly and at scale. Its ecosystem now supports a wide range of applications, from DeFi platforms and token projects to wallets, marketplaces, and other blockchain-based tools. Building these applications, however, requires developers to access data stored on the network and interact with its infrastructure. 

This is where Solana APIs come in.

Solana APIs provide developers a way to connect their applications to the blockchain without having to build every part of that connection from scratch. Depending on the provider, an API can offer access to blockchain data, transaction processing, indexed information, analytics, and other tools that make development easier. Since different APIs focus on different needs, factors such as the type of application being built, the data required, performance, and pricing can all influence which one is the better fit. With that in mind, here are the top 6 Solana APIs worth considering in September 2026.

1. Helius

Helius is primarily a Solana API that makes it easier for developers to work with data from the network. It supports standard RPC and WebSocket access, but also adds tools that can turn raw blockchain data into something easier to use. These include decoded transactions, token and NFT data, webhooks for real-time updates, and the Digital Asset Standard (DAS). Helius also supports Mainnet and Devnet and reports 99.99% uptime, with infrastructure across 11 regions and latency of under 100 milliseconds globally.

This makes Helius a useful option for projects such as DeFi apps, NFT platforms, trading bots, and other applications that need reliable, up-to-date Solana data. There is a free plan with 1 million monthly credits and 10 requests per second, making it perfect for single users; however, paid plans range from $49 to $2,900 per month, depending on team size and requirements.

2. ChangeNOW

Unlike the other APIs on the list, ChangeNOW differs as it focuses more on crypto swaps rather than Solana data or node access. Its REST API lets wallets, dApps, exchanges, and payment platforms add in-app swaps without having to build their own exchange logic, liquidity routing, or transaction processing. It supports more than 1,500 assets across 110+ blockchains, with over 2.25 million exchange pairs and liquidity sourced from both centralised and decentralised exchanges. The API also supports standard and fixed-rate swaps, along with tools for creating and tracking transactions.

There are no setup or monthly fees, and partners receive a free API key. Apps can also set a custom commission of up to 0.4% on transactions. ChangeNOW reports 99.99% availability and a 350-millisecond response time. The platform also offers widgets, white-label exchange flows, multichain bridge support, and Telegram bot integrations, making it useful for products that want to add swap functionality without building the exchange infrastructure themselves.

3. Alchemy

Alchemy is an API that offers the best of both worlds with access to Solana infrastructure and real-time data that comes from the same provider. Alongside standard JSON-RPC and WebSocket connections, it provides Yellowstone gRPC for streaming live blockchain data, as well as DAS and Photon APIs for working with tokens, NFTs, and compressed assets. This gives teams a way to handle both regular blockchain requests and real-time data through the same provider. Alchemy supports Solana Mainnet and Devnet and reports 99.99% reliability for its RPC and Streaming API, with multi-region infrastructure and automatic failover to keep the connection running.

The free plan provides 30 million Compute Units per month, 25 requests per second, five apps, and five webhooks, which is enough for early testing. For larger workloads, the Pay As You Go plan starts at 300 requests per second, with the first 300 million Compute Units costing $0.45 per million CUs. Enterprise plans start at 1,000 requests per second with custom pricing, while Yellowstone gRPC costs $80 per TB and WebSocket subscriptions are charged based on bandwidth. With this setup, Alchemy is particularly suited to wallets, DeFi apps, trading bots, analytics platforms, and custom indexers that need reliable RPC access as well as live Solana data.

4. CoinStats

CoinStats is a more data-heavy API, giving developers actionable information instead of making them work with raw Solana transaction data. Its REST API can provide SOL balances, SPL tokens, transaction histories, DeFi positions, and token prices through simple JSON responses. It also covers data from more than 120 blockchains and 10,000+ DeFi protocols, which can be useful for wallets, portfolio trackers, tax tools, and dashboards that need to work across multiple networks. CoinStats also offers an MCP Server that gives AI agents and LLMs access to wallet data.

The API uses a credit-based pricing model, with some requests using 30 to 50 credits depending on the endpoint. The free plan includes 50,000 monthly credits and up to 5 requests per second, while paid plans start at $49 per month for 1 million credits. The Pro plan offers 5 million credits for $199 per month, and the Business plan increases this to 80 million credits for $999 per month. Enterprise pricing is custom, with the overall cost depending on how much data an application needs.

5. Chainstack

Chainstack is a managed Solana RPC and node provider designed for teams looking for reliable blockchain access without wanting to run or build their own infrastructure. It offers both shared and dedicated nodes, along with geo-distributed infrastructure for lower-latency access. Its Yellowstone gRPC streaming can deliver on-chain data in under a second, which makes it particularly useful for trading bots, DeFi applications, and other systems where timing matters. Chainstack also supports more than 70 blockchains, so it can be a practical option for teams building applications across multiple networks.

The platform offers a free tier for development and testing, while paid plans scale based on factors such as throughput and node type rather than credits per API call. Chainstack reports a 99.99% uptime SLA and also offers unlimited nodes for larger production workloads with stricter performance requirements. Its focus on infrastructure makes it more suited to production applications, enterprise teams, wallets, and AI agents that need dependable RPC access than to projects looking for a ready-made data or portfolio API.

6. CoinAPI

CoinAPI is focused on crypto market data rather than direct access to the Solana network. It brings together data from more than 300 exchanges through a single API, giving developers access to real-time and historical SOL trades, quotes, order books, and OHLCV data. The data is standardized across exchanges, so trading platforms, pricing tools, and analytics products don’t have to build separate integrations for each market.

CoinAPI offers pay-as-you-go access, with $25 in free monthly credits, while fixed plans start at $79 per month for Startup, followed by $249 for Streamer and $599 for Pro. Paid plans include a 99.9% uptime SLA, while latency guarantees are available through custom Enterprise plans. This makes CoinAPI a better fit for trading platforms, quantitative research, and backtesting systems that need market data, but it is not designed for Solana RPC access, account indexing, NFT data, or token holder information.

Final thoughts  Choosing a Solana API ultimately comes down to what the developer or team actually needs from it. Some projects may only need reliable RPC access, while others may require real-time data, token and NFT information, cross-chain functionality, or tools for handling larger production workloads. Pricing, request limits, reliability, and how easily an API can fit into an existing application are also worth considering, especially as a project grows. Developers should therefore compare the available options based on their own requirements and, where possible, test a provider’s free version before committing to a paid plan or building more of their application around it. As always, users should do their own research, and understanding the API’s features, limits, and pricing is important before making a decision.

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Solana has quietly become the dominant chain for x402, the micropayment protocol that lets AI agents pay for APIs and data using USDC. As of mid-August 2026, Solana accounted for approximately 70% of monthly x402 protocol volume, processing a total transaction volume of around $24.24 million over the prior 30 days.

What x402 is and why it matters The protocol, developed by the Coinbase Developer Platform team, repurposes the long-dormant HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code to allow seamless, programmable payments between machines. An AI agent needs weather data from an API? It pays in USDC at the moment of the request, no subscription, no invoice, no human in the loop.

Cumulative activity across all chains using x402 is estimated to fall somewhere between 120 million and 187 million transactions, depending on which tracker you consult. Solana alone has processed over 35 million of those cumulatively.

Solana’s dominance in the numbers On August 25, 2026, Solana surpassed Base in daily x402 transaction counts for the first time in six months. Base, Coinbase’s own Layer 2 network, had a natural head start given that x402 was built by Coinbase’s developer team.

Earlier in 2026, Solana’s x402 market share swung wildly, dipping as low as 49.7% at one point before climbing back up to as high as 88% during peak periods. Facilitators like Dexter and PayAI have consolidated significant market positions on Solana.

The organic growth question The wide range in cumulative transaction estimates, spanning from 120 million to 187 million depending on the data source, hints at measurement challenges and possibly incentivized or non-organic transaction volumes inflating the headline numbers. Overall x402 activity has declined from its 2025 highs.

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Kamino, the lending and liquidity protocol built on Solana, has named Michael Weisz as its new CEO. Weisz co-founded Yieldstreet, an alternative investment platform that deployed over $6 billion across various asset classes and raised more than $250 million in venture and private equity funding.

The appointment, effective September 15, is designed to accelerate Kamino’s institutional growth and its expansion into the US market.

From alternative investments to on-chain lending Weisz spent over two decades in fintech before stepping into the Kamino role. At Yieldstreet, he built a platform that gave retail and institutional investors access to asset classes like real estate, marine finance, and art lending, all traditionally locked behind high minimums and private bank relationships.

The protocol operates as a peer-to-pool lending market on Solana with automated liquidity vaults, supporting leveraged strategies and, increasingly, real-world asset integrations.

Kamino’s numbers tell the story The protocol generated $1.84 million in revenue during Q2 2026. Deposits hit $2.29 billion by the end of the quarter, driven by rapid scaling in several newer markets. The Ethena market alone secured over $500 million in deposits. Kamino’s PRIME segment, which is backed by home equity loans, surpassed $600 million in market size.

Kamino has maintained zero bad debt since inception.

Recent launches include isolated markets, fixed-rate products, and institutional yield vaults. In August 2026, Kamino rolled out a Commodity Yield vault with $25 million in initial USDC capacity, designed to finance real-world commodity trade.

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Solana price hovered above $100 as crypto ETFs attracted $1.3 billion in inflows last week. The broader crypto market fell 0.79% to $2.63 trillion, reflecting cautious sentiment. 

Bitcoin traded near $77,000, while Ethereum held around $2,478 and XRP price remained above $1.40. 

Today’s CLARITY Act procedural vote needs 60 Senate votes to advance debate. Republicans require at least seven Democratic or independent votes if all 53 party senators support the motion.

Crypto ETF Inflows Hit $1.3B as Winning Streak Reaches Six Weeks The Crypto ETFs had a record of $1.3 billion inflows in a week, and this was a continuity of their streak of six consecutive weeks. Total inflows amounted to $6.8 billion and BlackRock IBIT alone raised $3.4 billion. 

BREAKING: Crypto ETFs attracted +$1.3 billion in inflows last week, following +$3.3 billion in the week prior.

This also marks their 6th consecutive weekly inflow.

Over this period, these funds have posted +$6.8 billion in inflows.

The largest Bitcoin ETF, $IBIT, alone… pic.twitter.com/HkXvyCMulB

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) September 15, 2026

The four-week average reached a high of $1.5 billion, the first time since November 2025. Four outflow sessions of over $463 million were witnessed on Monday, providing $160 million to spot Bitcoin ETFs. The Spot Ether ETF raised $121million, which underscores the revived interest in cryptocurrency investment products.

Solana ETF Inflows Hit $11M as Bitwise Leads Daily Demand On September 14, Solana exchange-traded funds registered net inflows of $11.01 million per day, as per SoSoValue. Cumulative inflows amounted to $1.37 billion and combined net assets increased to 1.46 billion. 

SOL ETF The BSOL by Bitwise topped the demand at $7.10 million and GSOL at Grayscale at 3.91 million. The total trading value was at 68.13 million, which shows institutional subsistence in Solana-linked funds. The assets represented by the products were all 2.38% of the market capitalization of Solana.

SOL Price Holds $100 Support as Bulls Target $110 Breakout The SOL Price traded at $100.86 on September 15, sitting directly above the four-hour chart’s key $100 support. 

The Relative Strength Index is 39, which is lower than the midpoint. The weak demand is an indication of this reading, but SOL has not hit the oversold arena.

The MACD histogram is just positive 0.01. In the meantime, the two underlying lines are close to -0.11.

Bulls require a solid close of at least four hours above $110 to reassure of new strength. The next marked resistance zone on the chart is equal to $120, which could be the target of that breakout.

Nevertheless, SOL needs to break the selling pressure near recent swing highs first. The Solana long-term prediction might continue to fluctuate within its current range as long as it continues to be rejected below $110.

The inability to hold $100 would undermine the structure and reveal a new downside target of $95. Buyers can defend $95 as that was the level that justified the late-August improvement.

Source: Tradingview A four-hour close below $95 may indicate a further correction than shown on the chart support levels. On the other hand, keeping $100 would leave the possibility of making another recovery effort for Solana price.

Crypto markets are expected to face extreme volatility over the next 48 hours, with the critical CLARITY cloture vote and Wednesday’s FOMC meeting casting doubt over all digital assets.

Despite over $370M being liquidated from crypto markets, $SOL ETF flows suggest institutional players maintain a constructive view on Solana and its ecosystem.

$BTC Falls 4% as Markets Lose Confidence in CLARITY CLARITY is going down to the wire, and the level of tension and uncertainty at play is clearly visible in crypto markets. Digital assets rallied after Senator Lummis released the Bill’s final text on Sunday night, with $BTC rising 4% to trade hands as high as $79,000 on Monday’s open.

As it turns out, the Democrats had other plans. Despite claims that Lummis’ final text acquiesced to 126 demands the Democrats reportedly rejected the bill due to ethics language, before issuing a counteroffer.

Ahead of today’s critical cloture vote, the Republicans have rejected the proposed counteroffer, leaving negotiations in a deadlock. With CLARITY’s approval looking unlikely, crypto markets have since taken a nose dive.

Markets wasted no time ceding ground back to bearish forces, with $BTC giving back the 4% gain it enjoyed at Monday’s open. According to Coinglass data, over $381M has been liquidated across both long and short positions.

Prediction markets witnessed a similar downturn. CLARITY approval odds across all timeframes have plummeted, with chances of the bill passing before the end of the year falling to 14%.

CLARITY’s dismissal would strike a hard blow for crypto builders in the United States. Chainlink Senior Director Chris Barrett argues that if CLARITY is not passed, the nation risks seeing “the next era of financial infrastructure… happen elsewhere”.

$SOL ETF Flows Show Strength While the Senate deliberates, institutional allocators continue to solidify their $SOL exposure. Against the flow of volatility, $SOL ETFs have succeeded in recording 12 straight weeks of inflows. 

Bitwise retains its firm lead on the $SOL ETF market, boasting $993M in AUM and representing over 68% of total net assets. Over $1.46B is now held in $SOL ETFs, constituting roughly 2.38% of the asset’s current market cap.

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Pi Network price nears $0.10 on September 15 ahead of major events shaping cryptocurrency sentiment.

PI traded around $0.0964, placing the psychological barrier within reach before the scheduled network upgrade.

Bitcoin traded around $76,858, and Ethereum was at $2,474. XRP price traded at $1.40, and Solana price held around $100.

Nonetheless, the markets were insecure due to political uncertainty surrounding the technical catalyst.

CLARITY Act Faces Democratic Rejection Before Today’s Vote Senate Democrats reportedly rejected the latest Republican CLARITY Act draft and prepared a counterproposal before today’s vote.

At 2:15 p.m. ET, the Senate was supposed to debate cloture, which would take 60 votes to proceed to debate

The vote does not deal with whether the bill becomes law, but with whether senators will go ahead with the bill.

What if the Sept 15 CLARITY Act cloture vote passes cleanly? Celebrate, but keep the champagne on ice. It only opens the floor. It is not the law.

Still left after that:

1. Senate debate and a second 60-vote cloture

2. Final Senate passage (51 votes)

3. House approval of the… pic.twitter.com/SnNwkHQVFI

— Lark Davis (@LarkDavis) September 15, 2026

Odds offered by prediction markets to pass this year dropped to less than 19% after the Democratic reaction.

After the Republicans made far-reaching last-minute changes that would deal with Democratic worries, Senator Cynthia Lummis announced the vote on Tuesday as decisive.

These changes included political ethics, state enforcement authority, protections of illicit finance, and stablecoin reward issues.

The democratic opposition means that the measure will encounter a tough vote, which could create uncertainty in regulations on digital assets.

A negative vote would put speculative tokens such as the Pi Network price under pressure, and a second round of negotiations might reduce the damage done in the market at the beginning.

The bill would impose a regulatory limit on digital goods, although its enactment would not necessarily categorize PI or ensure listings.

Protocol v27 Upgrade Targets Mainnet Today The Protocol 27 mainnet upgrade of Pi Network is planned to take place on September 15, after Protocol 26 was released in August. The release wraps up the upgrade cycle of the network and puts Pi in a position to be used more widely. 

The Protocol 27 has enhanced the smart contract authentication, and it provides more approvals of transactions. It also provides infrastructure of automated market makers, liquidity pools, and future decentralized exchange services. 

🚨 Pi Node Docker just moved to V27.1.0.

The latest Pi Node Docker tags now show p27.1.0 for Mainnet Relay and Organization Mainnet, confirming the node software has been updated from the V26 line to the V27 protocol stack.

This is another important step toward the Pi Network… pic.twitter.com/hIcWLx5Ff2

— sunday peter π (@sundaypeter8110) September 15, 2026

Public RPC access will enable developers to connect with the blockchain without running full nodes. The upgrades required by the node operators are required to be installed in a series, whereas regular wallet users have nothing to do. Nevertheless, the specifics of full DEX activation are scarce, and the effects of adoption and prices are still unclear.

Pi Network Price Prediction: Will Pi Coin Break $0.10+? Pi Network’s price technical setup is slightly constructive, but the price has yet to validate a breakout above its psychological ceiling.

The daily RSI has been around 44, which reflects positive momentum but is not overbought.

In the meantime, the MACD remains slightly upbeat, yet slight distance indicates that the recovery is yet to receive greater trading volume.

The nearest resistance is at $0.0998 and $0.10. A prolonged close above that area may reveal $0.11, and then there would be $0.12 as per detailed Pi Coin price analysis.

Source: TradingView The first support is found at approximately $0.094, and another significant line of defense is $0.0938.

Any drop below that would take PI Network price to around $0.09 and around $0.0898.

The breakout could be aided by successful activation and enhanced political sentiment, whereas disappointment in either of these events would increase volatility.

Until further notice, $0.10 is still the pivotal point between further consolidation and more robust short-term recovery.

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Three listed crypto treasury companies added to their token piles last week, even as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) drifted through a soft September.

Buying continued as digital assets faced fresh uncertainty ahead of a Federal Reserve rate decision. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) was the exception, though. The firm bought back its own preferred shares and left its Bitcoin stack untouched.

BitMine and DFDV Expand Their Crypto TreasuryBitMine Immersion Technologies picked up 27,180 ETH last week, lifting its position to 5.956 million tokens. That lands at 4.9% of the circulating supply, just under the 5% supply target that chairman Tom Lee has been pursuing.

Roughly 5.07 million of those tokens sit staked. BitMine values its combined crypto and cash at $15.8 billion.

“In August, ETH moved sideways without a downside break, and the 12-day metric expired, which implies a renewal of the upside move. We believe this further supports the continuation of the prior uptrend. We expect late August’s sharp one-day rally was a likely preview of the pending advance,” Tom DeMark, founder of DeMark Analytics and a capital markets advisor to the firm, said.

DeFi Development Corp, a Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury firm, has grown its holdings by 2% to 2.39 million SOL since August 27. It also opened a $300 million at-the-market program for CHAD, its Solana-backed preferred stock. 

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Strive Buys, Strategy Sits OutStrive, the fifth-largest public Bitcoin treasury firm, bought 469 BTC between September 8 and 11 at an average of $77,954. Its treasury now holds 25,000 coins.

Strategy, the largest public Bitcoin holder, bought none. It repurchased $139 million of its STRC stock. Its stack holds at 845,050 BTC, against an average cost of $75,412.

The purchases land ahead of a decisive week for crypto. The Federal Open Market Committee delivers its interest rate decision on September 16.

Markets have swung toward expecting a hike. CME FedWatch put the odds of a quarter-point increase at 85.6% on September 11, up from 48.4% a month earlier.

Higher rates raise the cost of holding assets that generate no yield. A hike could therefore pressure crypto prices in the sessions that follow, as it has during earlier tightening moves.

That sets up the real test for these treasuries. Their buying has continued through a soft stretch for prices, and the coming weeks will show whether it survives a potential deeper slump.

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SEC Chairman Paul Atkins used his Sept. 14 keynote at the Solana Policy Institute summit to send a dual-track message to markets.

He backed the CLARITY Act cloture vote set for Tuesday. At the same time, he told investors that Project Crypto, the SEC’s agency-wide crypto rulemaking program, will keep moving regardless of what the Senate decides.

That message shifts the investor read from a binary Senate pass-or-fail to a dual-track regulatory path.

Atkins Lays Out Three Pillars of Project Crypto Speaking hours before Tuesday’s cloture vote, Atkins confirmed three concrete rulemaking tracks under Project Crypto, regardless of the Senate outcome.

The first is Regulation Crypto Assets. Atkins called it one of the most significant steps the Commission has taken to modernize federal securities law.

If adopted, it would let token founders raise capital in the U.S. under clearly defined rules.

The second covers transfer agents. Atkins said the SEC has not seriously updated those rules in roughly 40 years.

The push is the infrastructure story for tokenized securities and on-chain funds. It is the same ground ARK, BlackRock, and Fidelity’s race for an SEC-approved tokenized fund is already competing over.

The third is the most bankable new detail from the speech. Atkins said he has asked SEC staff to develop a proposal allowing investment advisers to self-custody crypto where a qualified third-party custodian does not yet exist.

He also opened a path for state trust companies to act as custodians. That directly addresses the bottleneck keeping RIAs and fund managers cautious on digital-asset exposure.

Senate Math and What It Means for the Dual-Track Path The cloture vote requires 60 votes to proceed. Republicans hold 53 Senate seats.

That means at least seven Democrats must cross over. A yes result opens debate. It does not equal final passage.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis has framed the moment as now or never. She noted that Democrats already secured more than 100 changes to the text, including self-custody protections and retail-investor offices.

Her push came alongside President Trump’s agreement on CLARITY Act ethics provisions covering elected officials and their spouses.

Even so, Senate Democrats are still preparing a counterproposal, and banking groups plus New York state attorneys general have filed formal opposition.

That gap is exactly why Atkins’ speech landed where it did. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong made the same dual-path argument days earlier.

He argued that regulatory clarity arrives whether or not the Senate clears the CLARITY Act cloture vote.

Atkins’ speech is the SEC’s official confirmation of that same logic.

Grayscale has separately confirmed that crypto regulation will advance regardless of how the CLARITY Act vote goes.

For investors, that alignment between the SEC Chair, the largest U.S. crypto exchange CEO, and a major institutional fund manager points in one direction.

U.S. crypto market structure is now agency-led, with statute as an optional accelerant.

Under Project Crypto, the SEC’s rulemaking calendar does not pause for a Senate vote. Atkins made that clear. The legislative and regulatory clocks are now running in parallel.

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Solana held steady near $101.50 on September 14 after rebounding from a low of $98.38 reached earlier in the week. The asset had opened the period at $103.33, closing out the week with a 2.2% loss despite its short-term recovery.

Key resistance for SOL and technical outlookThe SOL price faces persistent resistance within the $103 to $105 range. Sellers have repeatedly entered the market at these levels, limiting further advances and keeping the price capped below this zone. Technical indicators reflect a cautious mood: the daily Relative Strength Index stands at 56.17. This is above the neutral 50 mark but falls short of its 60.80 moving average, which suggests waning bullish momentum.

Market analyst CryptoJack noted that SOL approaches a significant resistance area, highlighting that a clear break above it could pave the way for renewed bullish momentum. He is closely monitoring this juncture, noting its critical role for short-term price direction.

CryptoJack believes SOL’s approach to a key technical resistance could trigger a strong bullish move if the level is cleared, underlining the importance of this price zone.

The 4-hour chart displays SOL consolidating within a symmetrical triangle pattern. Resistance aligns with $103, and the ascending support is clustered between $100 and $100.70. The Supertrend indicator provides near-term resistance at $104.08, maintaining a bearish signal above the triangle’s upper boundary.

An examination of the Aroon indicator shows the Aroon Up at 85.71% and the Aroon Down at 0%. This implies that recent price highs have been more frequent than lows, but the market awaits a decisive breakout.

Support, targets, and liquidation zonesTechnical analyst Ella, known for her insights in the crypto trading community, sees the $98.50 to $100 band as critical support that underpins Solana’s current rebound. She explains that sustained daily closes above $106 would likely make way for a move toward $109 to $110.50. Conversely, a daily close below $98 could open the door to the $94.50–$96 range.

CoinGlass liquidation heat maps identify clusters of short positions at $102.60–$102.90 and $103.60–$104. Should SOL breach the $103 resistance, a chain reaction of short liquidations could drive momentum higher. On the downside, key long liquidation points sit at $98.50–$98.80.

LevelTypeRangeSupportKey$98.50–$100ResistanceImmediate$103–$105Bull TargetPotential$109–$110.50Short LiquidationCluster$102.60–$104Long LiquidationCluster$98.50–$98.80Transaction V1 upgrade expands network capabilitiesOn September 14, Solana’s mainnet implemented the Transaction V1 format upgrade, increasing the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes. This marks a greater than threefold rise in the platform’s transaction capacity, supporting the development of more intricate blockchain applications.

With Transaction V1, developers can execute complex operations—such as multi-signature wallets, advanced zero-knowledge proofs, and multi-step trading processes—within a single atomic transaction.

Unlike Solana’s fixed transaction size limit, Ethereum relies on a variable gas mechanism without a defined cap on transaction size. This upgrade narrows the architectural differences between the two networks. While earlier transaction formats remain compatible, all blockchain applications and services are now required to support Transaction V1 to correctly process new transactions.

Mini dictionary: Transaction V1, an upgraded Solana transaction format, allows developers to include more complex instructions by expanding the maximum size for a single transaction record. This supports advanced features within one atomic operation, streamlining processes for high-demand blockchain applications.

Looking ahead, the cryptocurrency market anticipates the US Federal Reserve’s policy statement on September 16, which could introduce additional volatility for Solana and the wider crypto sector.

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15 September 2026 | 10:26 Solana has raised the maximum amount of data a single transaction can carry, giving complex applications more room for proofs, signatures and connected instructions within one operation.

Key Takeaways V1 raises transaction capacity to 4,096 bytes. Legacy and V0 transactions remain fully supported. Proofs and multisigs gain more transaction space. Applications must explicitly opt into V1. Larger messages may require higher priority fees. Solana activated its txv1 feature on mainnet at approximately 01:00 UTC on September 15, at the start of epoch 1035. The upgrade increased the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes.

The additional space is available through the V1 transaction format. Applications must add support before using it, while legacy and V0 transactions continue to operate under their existing limits.

A larger transaction is not a larger SOL transfer The new limit concerns the information carried by a transaction, not the amount of SOL a user can send. A standard transfer needs relatively little data because it contains only a small number of accounts, instructions and signatures.

More advanced operations can require several instructions, numerous account addresses, multiple approvals or cryptographic proofs. Once that information exceeded the former limit, developers had to reduce the payload, separate the operation or use alternatives such as address lookup tables and transaction bundles.

Solana can process unrelated transactions in parallel, as explained in this guide to how Solana works. V1 does not alter that execution model. It provides more room when a single operation must contain several connected parts.

When those instructions are submitted as one atomic transaction, they are processed as a unit. The complete operation succeeds or its changes are reversed, avoiding a situation in which only some of its instructions reach the ledger.

Which operations benefit from additional space? Batched trades: A trading application can place connected instructions inside one transaction instead of coordinating several confirmations. Large multisig approvals: Treasury and company wallets can accommodate more signatures and account information when several people must authorise an operation. Zero-knowledge proofs: Applications can prove that a condition is satisfied without revealing all the underlying information, but the proof itself may require substantial transaction space. Onchain signature schemes: Some cryptographic signature formats previously produced more data than one Solana transaction could contain. The Solana Foundation identifies confidential transfers, nested multisigs, batched operations and certain onchain signature schemes as potential uses for the new format.

Most wallet users do not need to take action The activation does not require users to move their SOL, create another address or convert an existing account. Applications that continue using legacy or V0 transactions should behave as they did before the upgrade.

Users will need a compatible wallet when an application chooses to send a V1 transaction. Keeping wallet software updated will make that support available as providers introduce it, but an application should still check compatibility before asking a wallet to sign.

The change may eventually appear to users as fewer approval requests for complex operations. A service that previously needed several connected transactions could instead present one request and wait for one confirmation.

Developers and indexers need to update their software Sending V1 transactions is optional, but reading them can create compatibility problems for infrastructure that has not been updated.

RPC services retrieving transactions or blocks must set maxSupportedTransactionVersion: 1. Without that setting, a request for a V1 transaction can return an error, while a single unsupported transaction can cause a request for an entire block to fail.

Indexers face a different risk. V1 stores its compute limit, loaded-account data limit and priority fee inside transactionConfig rather than in Compute Budget instructions. Software that continues scanning the old location may classify the transaction incorrectly or report its resource limits and priority fee as zero.

Applications creating V1 transactions must set their compute-unit and loaded-account data limits explicitly. Both values default to zero in the new format, so omitting them can cause the transaction to fail before execution.

Transactions larger than 1,232 bytes must also be submitted with base64 encoding. The base58 submission path retains the former size ceiling.

V1 provides more space but changes other limits V1 is not simply V0 with a larger payload. It can include up to 64 account addresses directly in the transaction, but it does not support address lookup tables. Duplicate account addresses are also rejected.

Those rules create a different design choice for application teams. V0 remains useful when lookup tables provide an efficient way to reference accounts, while V1 is intended for operations that benefit more from additional room for instructions, signatures or proofs.

A basic payment is unlikely to gain anything from the new format. Using V1 makes more sense when the application can replace a complicated sequence or accommodate data that previously could not fit at all.

More transaction space may carry a higher fee Increasing the byte limit does not automatically make every V1 transaction more expensive. The cost depends on the resources requested, the number of signatures and the priority fee selected by the application.

Larger messages do consume more validator bandwidth. Solana’s documentation says the scheduler is expected to require a higher priority fee for a larger transaction than for a smaller one seeking equivalent priority, particularly when blockspace is in demand.

V1 also expresses the priority fee as a total amount in lamports. V0 uses a price per compute unit, meaning analytics platforms must normalise the two formats before comparing them.

Priority-fee demand can change substantially with network activity, as shown by Solana’s recent fee data. Developers will therefore need to weigh the convenience of one larger operation against the cost of getting it included during congested periods.

Activation begins the adoption test The upgrade removes a constraint that previously shaped how Solana applications were built, but mainnet activation does not guarantee widespread use. Wallets, RPC providers, indexers and application libraries must handle the new format correctly before developers can rely on it in customer-facing products.

The earliest benefits are likely to appear in workloads that already struggle with the former ceiling, including confidential transfers, institutional multisig arrangements and instruction-heavy applications. For ordinary transfers, the established formats remain the simpler option.

V1’s importance will ultimately depend on whether fitting these workloads into one atomic transaction produces enough savings in coordination, signatures and failed attempts to justify the required infrastructure updates.

This article is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Wallet compatibility, application support and transaction fees can change.

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