Solana Ecosystem News - October 11-2026

**Source:** https://x.com/solana/status/2109278237251813776 The world’s largest phone maker is putting Solana in its wallet. Samsung Wallet is getting USDC cross-border payments, BNY opened SOL custody, Securitize brought U.S. stocks onchain, and blocks got 2x faster underneath. Here’s everything that shipped: 📰 **Headline News** \- Samsung partnered with Solana to bring USDC cross-border payments via Samsung Wallet \- 200ms slot targets went live on Solana mainnet-beta, completing @anza\_xyz’s SIMD-0525 rollout \- @SolanaFndn launched Solana DvP, open-source delivery-versus-payment settlement for institutions, built with input from J.P. Morgan \- BNY expanded its digital asset custody to the EU under MiCA, offering institutional custody for SOL \- @Securitize launched Securitize Stocks on Solana, bringing 1:1 share-backed U.S. equities onchain \- @orca\_so and @Loopscale combined as @formation\_so, putting issuance, trading and credit on one set of rails 📰 **Launches** \- @kamino launched the Apyx Market, enabling USDC borrowing and leveraged yield strategies against preferred equity-backed apyUSD \- @MarinadeFinance launched Marinade Borrow, enabling users to borrow USDC or SOL directly against staked SOL without unstaking \- @DGLD\_Official brought MKS PAMP’s tokenized gold, available to 1M+ @SwissBorg users with @ArrakisFinance liquidity \- @AgantFinance made its institutional-grade pound sterling stablecoin GBPA available on Solana \- @Helium partnered with grocery co-op Wakefern Food Corp to offload carrier cellular traffic onto Wi-Fi \- @MeteoraAG unveiled DLMM Pro with fully customizable market configurations for token launches \- @sanctumso shipped swSOL, a wrapped SOL asset \- @nansen\_ai previewed autonomous AI agents that research and execute onchain trades \- @ZetaChain demonstrated Anuma Nearby, which uses private AI memory to connect people nearby \- @grass debuted its Contents API, turning any public URL into clean, model-ready text for AI agents \- @PayAINetwork and @BlockRunAI shipped batch @x402 payments on Solana to settle multiple API calls in a single transaction \- @altitude integrated Altitude Accounting with Xero for direct transaction ledger mapping \- $EWZ ETF and $RACE shares went live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities \- $WLD, $SHIB, and $VVV went live on Solana via @sunrise \- @backabledotbiz launched Backable, a frontier fundraising platform built by @MetaDAOProject \- @scoutfinance\_ launched its social investing app on iOS and Android \- @DualMintRWA tokenized a fleet of 200 physical claw machines on Solana \- @comicbookhq launched its DC Comics collectibles gacha machine featuring vintage and modern grails \- @M@apleMarketApp introduced tokenized Canadian maple syrup on Solana powered by @BAXUSco and @SuperteamCAN \- @2WA\_Official launched the first market-neutral fund built on USDGO, live for professional investors in Hong Kong via @osldotcom \- @SolanaFndn released Microscope, an open-source monitoring and alerting tool for Solana programs and Squads multisigs \- @jtx\_trade revealed plans for a mobile app alongside equities and perps trading features \- @galileowilson won @joinfrontier’s Singapore edition and heads to finale at Breakpoint, with a Porsche 911 GT3 RS on the line \- @TrustWallet expanded its 0% swap fee campaign on Solana to cover SOL, wSOL, and five stablecoins \- @USDC Bridge added Solana support, enabling direct USDC transfers between Solana and 18 ecosystems 📰**Milestones** \- Stablecoin-holding addresses on Solana topped a record 14M \- Solana hit 1.88M daily active addresses, a 13-month high \- Stablecoin card spend on Solana crossed $1B all-time \- Solana’s tokenized equities have grown to over 2,000 products \- @leaps\_finance crossed $100K in options sold during its beta, paying sellers upfront yield on SOL, cbBTC, and USDC \- @ImperialPerps’ ARMADA prop AMM surpassed $14.1M in notional volume in 7 days \- @hylo\_so crossed $44M in combined open interest across $xSOL, $xBTC, and $xHYPE \- @xStocksFi hit $2.4B in monthly volume, up 28x year over year 35 DAYS TILL BREAKPOINT Artwork by the one and only @foursixsix 🔥 https://preview.redd.it/su4vgtdzsuuh1.png…