Somewhere between a corner store, a silver vault, and a gacha machine, Solana had a week. Cash access hit nearly 500K retail locations, silver came onchain fully audited, and a luxury watch is waiting to be pulled. Here’s everything that shipped this week: 📰 Headline News - @MoneyGram launched Ramps on Solana, giving builders access to 60M+ customers across ~500K locations in 170+ countries via one API - @Bullish executed the first tokenized equity trades on a regulated exchange, settling Solana-tokenized BLSH 24/7 in stablecoins - Solana’s RWA ecosystem reached a new all-time high of $3.9B in total value - Solana set a new single-day record processing 171.9M non-vote transactions - @sunrise brought tokenized Nebius shares (NBIS) to Solana, issued by @Backpack Securities 📰 Launches - @JupiterExchange launched Lend v2, with Smart Vaults turning loans into active DEX liquidity - SILV launched via @sunrise, backed 1:1 by @Dominion_Market’s audited physical silver reserves - @re’s reUSD went live on Solana - @ThunesPayments enabled 24/7 EURC prefunding on Solana, bridging digital assets with 90+ fiat currencies - @project0 and @_gammafi launched ML Vaults to capture cross-market spreads and optimize yields in real time - @Collector_Crypt and @watchdotfun launched vault-backed luxury watch RWAs with gacha and arena redemptions - @Pumpfun launched daily, volume-based Callout Rewards for callers in its app - @MonkeDAO launched JungleFun with @magicblock, offering verifiable onchain pack openings - @birdeye_so introduced Wallet Tracker for monitoring traders, holdings, and watchlists in one dashboard - @Artifacte_inc launched Rip Room, enabling live-streamed pack openings with direct-to-wallet onchain minting - @fomo launched Dev Tags, letting teams claim tags to update holders and build communities in-app - @SuperteamCAN announced Solana Summit Canada for September 23–24 - @JurassicFi announced its tokenized dinosaur fossils launch on August 17 - @tokens open-sourced its platform - @BitRobotNetwork opened applications for Access IDs to its Open Robotics Lab - @solana_devs unveiled a seven-week Solana School fall program, running August 31-October 16 - @solanaspaces and @spenders_club announced Solana Summer House on Aug 29 - @SuperteamUK launched their 24/7 office in Somerset House 📰 Milestones - @Collector_Crypt officially crossed $1B in cumulative gross revenue - @crediblefin crossed $1B in total payments volume - @kamino’s Institutional Commodity Yield Vault crossed $25M in deposits - @LaunchOnSF has crossed over $86,000,000 of volume in 10 days, with 19k+ unique holders - @metaplex set a July record with 900K+ Core assets created, pushing the total past 8M - @HusherExchange surpassed $200M in cumulative private Solana swaps If you enjoyed this week’s newsletter, please share it with an RT. Artwork by @AirForceTuan 🔥(Solana)