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The blockchain transaction dissemination infrastructure bloXroute announced that its Solana DEX aggregator blox has entered public testing. This product addresses changes in pool balances between quotes and execution, providing faster quote responses, and reassessing paths based on real-time liquidity during execution to optimize trade execution.In early mainnet testing, blox completed a total of 200,000 exchanges, with a trading volume of 25 million USD and 10,000 independent traders. A 7-day benchmark test showed that the median response time for its exchange interface was 9 milliseconds, with an average slippage of -0.2 basis points for SOL and USDC mainnet exchanges. During this period, all successful exchanges enabled dynamic routing, with 29% of paths completing active pool replacements, achieving a median gain of 97 basis points.The public testing interface is currently open for use, while the production interface requires a whitelist application to the bloXroute customer team.

Solana officially stated that Akash's token AKT has been launched on Solana through Sunrise. The Akash community previously passed a governance proposal to migrate to Solana.

According to PR Newswire, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced plans to integrate its Tokenization Service (DTCC Tokenization Service, DTS) with Solana's Layer 1 network, allowing eligible assets held by DTC to be converted into token form and to gain corresponding token lifecycle functionalities. This integration is expected to go live in the second half of 2027.DTS was officially launched on October 28, and this integration with Solana is an extension of its "multi-chain strategy." DTCC stated that after the integration, DTC tokenized assets will retain the same investor protections, ownership rights, and regulatory safeguards as traditional held securities, while enhancing liquidity, collateral liquidity, and capital efficiency.DTCC President and CEO Frank La Salla stated that this brings regulated DTC tokenized securities to another mainstream blockchain ecosystem; Brian Steele, President of Clearing and Securities Services, emphasized that the service is a "secure, interoperable, and market-neutral" infrastructure; Nadine Chakar, Global Head of Digital Assets at DTCC, mentioned that interoperability is key to the scalability of digital markets; Nick Ducoff, General Manager of Institutional Business at the Solana Foundation, stated that after the integration, tokenized securities can be settled and circulated like other on-chain assets.

According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed Solana Company (stock ticker: HSDT) reported third-quarter revenue of 3.4 million USD, an increase from 700,000 USD in the same period last year. The quarterly revenue was primarily driven by its staking income from the SOL it holds.As of September 30, the company held approximately 2.4 million SOL, with a fair value of about 288.2 million USD.

The Solana block space market Gravity Block Exchange (GBX) has announced its launch on the Solana mainnet. GBX positions itself as an open and neutral block space market, where block builders compete for the ordering of each block through auctions, rather than having a single scheduler complete the ordering. Its goal is to create a unified ordering market that increases the value of validator block space through competition among builders, while providing users with a clear set of rules.The mainnet operation status announced by GBX includes: approximately 5% of the total staked validators have been connected, with rewards 20% to 30% higher than the cluster average. Currently, there are two independent block builders participating in each round of auctions, namely Bifrost from Astralane and Titan Builder from Gattaca. Public documents show that validators can connect through the Gravity Connector sidecar without the need for a custom validator fork, currently supporting Agave and Jito-Solana, while support for Firedancer is still in development; when external ordering paths are unavailable, validators can fall back to the native scheduler.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, trader Solanadoomer opened a new short position of 500 BTC on Hyperliquid, valued at approximately 36.97 million USD, using 40x leverage.The entry price for this position was 73907.60 USD, and the liquidation price was 85451.20 USD. The accompanying image shows that the account has accumulated profits of approximately 21.32 million USD.

The Solana Foundation is hiring a Vice President of International Communications. This is a full-time position within the marketing team, supporting remote work in the United States, with other locations including San Francisco and New York. The hire will be responsible for Solana's global narrative and network reputation management, developing and maintaining the global narrative, establishing and personally maintaining relationships with media in the U.S. business, finance, technology, and cryptocurrency sectors, while providing executive positioning and communication consulting to the foundation's management.This position will also be responsible for reputation and issue management related to network incidents, client vulnerabilities, application layer attacks, and validator disputes, establishing severity classifications, identifying decision-makers, rehearsing processes, and preparing response language in advance; providing communication support for project launches, founder media training, etc., to the ecosystem team, and collaborating with policy and legal teams to handle regulatory and legislative matters. The ideal candidate should have approximately 10 to 15 years of communication experience, possess direct contacts with business, finance, and technology media reporters, and be able to use AI tools in monitoring, research, drafting, information testing, and adversarial review tasks.

Formation Securities plans to launch a Solana stock tokenization trading platform in early 2027.

According to The Block, Jupiter Exchange's Chief Operating Officer Kash Dhanda stated in an interview, "Solana is the universal chain."He believes that the future of finance will not be built on specialized systems, but rather on a universal chain that can aggregate liquidity, and currently, only Solana provides this.

Agave v4.5 is tentatively scheduled for widespread adoption on the mainnet on December 7, and the mainnet functionality activation is planned to begin on December 14.

The Solana Foundation developer relations personnel stated that Direct Mapping is about to go live on the mainnet and recommended developers enable the relevant features for program testing.

According to Decrypt, Jupiter, the largest trading platform on Solana, launched four new products this week, expanding from token trading to a one-stop on-chain asset platform, and announced a new mission to make global assets universally accessible and usable.Jupiter aggregates liquidity across the entire Solana network to provide optimal prices for each transaction, with a cumulative aggregated trading volume exceeding $1.3 trillion; according to data from DeFiLlama in early November, its total locked value in the ecosystem is approximately $1.7 billion, and the active loan size in the lending market has surpassed $1 billion. Chief Operating Officer Kash Dhanda stated that aggregation applies not only to trading but to all aspects.Among the four products, Baskets allows users to deposit a single SOL or USDC to purchase a basket of tokens without the need to exchange them one by one, which can be allocated and automatically rebalanced based on market capitalization weight or fixed targets. Jupiter Vaults serve as a yield strategy center, covering stablecoin lending and strategies supported by real-world assets, managed by independent curators rather than Jupiter itself. Users can view the risk status, fund allocation, and historical returns of each strategy before depositing. Vaults went live on November 11 as a private beta for over 19,000 waitlisted users and eligible stakers of JUP.The launched Portfolio V3 upgrades the portfolio page to an actionable interface, providing quick access to trading, opening perpetual contracts, forecasting, and lending, and sends alerts when positions approach liquidation, while also adding cross-chain transfer functionality that integrates multiple cross-chain bridges. Pulse and the revamped token page provide market data for tokenized stocks and ETFs, token economic models for DeFi projects, and a token comparison sidebar.The aforementioned products will be gradually launched before the Solana Breakpoint conference opens on November 15. Jupiter stated that all Vaults strategies carry risks, and some strategies may not be available in regions including the United States.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 22:42 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana chain, worth approximately 250 million US dollars.

According to official news from Solana, the Solana infrastructure company Helius today launched the permissionless privacy protocol Solana Privacy Rings on the Solana mainnet. Developers can add privacy features to new and existing Solana applications through the API, laying the foundation for private payments, privacy DeFi, and enterprise compliance privacy.Privacy Rings are programmable shielded pools, with assets and amounts encrypted and stored on-chain, while wallet addresses remain visible. Users can decrypt balances by viewing the viewing key, supporting SOL, SPL tokens, and Token-2022 tokens, with ZK proof verification taking only a few hundred milliseconds. Its core program and ZK circuits have been audited by Certora, OtterSec, and ZK Security. The institution-oriented permissioned Custom Rings are currently under audit and are expected to go live on the mainnet in the coming weeks, supporting compliance features such as KYC whitelisting, sanctions screening, and fund freezing and recovery.Currently, Decrypt, Ore, and others have integrated, while teams such as Backpack, DFlow, Jupiter, and Squads are in the process of integration, with Chainalysis, Elliptic, and others providing compliance support for wallet screening.

Developer Noah announced on November 9 that he has joined the Solana Foundation as the Head of Product Engineering, reporting directly to Vibhu. Noah has been working in development within the Solana ecosystem for over 5 years, previously participating in the migration of Helium to the Solana network and contributing to the development of tools such as StrataProtocol.Before joining the Solana Foundation, Noah worked for about 5 months at VelocityDEX, a decentralized trading platform in the Solana ecosystem, where he was involved in the relaunch of the platform after a security incident, which included protocol code restructuring, STRIDE implementation, and smart contract re-auditing. He also participated in the recovery efforts of Drift Protocol following a security incident.

The Vice President of Technology at the Solana Foundation, Jacob Creech, responded to the controversy arising from the recent adjustments to the Solana Foundation Delegated Program (SFDP). The adjustments include: setting the participation period for validators in the SFDP to 12 months, automatic graduation after staking 300,000 SOL, capping the number of validators at 100, and requiring participants to run their own validator nodes.Jacob Creech stated that the SFDP originally had three main tasks: to help new validators get started, to establish a healthy testnet, and to allow some validators to test network updates early. As the Solana ecosystem expands and the validator community matures, the original mechanisms have struggled to adequately meet the ever-changing demands of the network. The foundation hopes to shift towards a more proactive and flexible delegation mechanism, focusing on supporting network health and ecosystem contributors. The SFDP will continue to support new validators, and the foundation will also reward validators who make significant contributions to network health through delegation outside of the program. Previously, the foundation had delegated staking to ecosystem contributors like Blueshift and supported validators who were the first to test Frankendancer.In response to community concerns that the adjustments might lead to a decrease in the number of validators, Jacob Creech stated that reducing the number of validators is not the goal of this adjustment. However, if enough high-quality contributors cannot be found, a decline in the number of validators may become a side effect. He also revealed that over 100 validators have submitted materials to apply for continued support.

According to The Block, Formation Securities has notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of its plan to operate a tokenized securities trading platform on Solana, aiming to launch trading in early 2027.The company plans to conduct compliant secondary trading of tokenized stocks conditionally through a licensed automated market maker liquidity pool within a compliant trading venue, based on the SEC's innovative exemption mechanism. The first products are planned to include tokenized stocks of Exodus Movement, Forward Industries, and Galaxy Digital.Formation stated that these tokenized stocks will retain the same voting rights and dividend rights as other shareholders, allowing investors to trade with stablecoins and other qualified assets around the clock, with atomic settlement completed on-chain.

According to CoinDesk, Solana developers have proposed to abolish the persistent nonce transaction feature, which was used in the April attack on the trading protocol Drift, resulting in a loss of at least $270 million. The proposal still requires technical approval and is expected to take effect on the mainnet as early as May 5, 2027.Persistent nonce allows signed transactions to remain valid for a long time, enabling custodians and exchanges to perform offline signing. Relevant institutions will need to migrate to alternative solutions, and the migration requirements from the Solana Foundation may delay the final deadline.

The Solana perpetual contract platform Percolator will initiate a $250,000 financing through MetaDAO's Backable and create a new token PERC. The original PERCOLATOR token will not be migrated and cannot be exchanged or claimed for PERC; holders in the snapshot on November 7 can participate in the reserved $50,000 financing quota but must contribute at the same price as other participants.Percolator stated that PERCOLATOR was issued by others through pump.fun, and later taken over by David in a community takeover. Approximately 1 billion tokens have been circulating in the market since launch, and the team has no locked or sellable token allocation. This financing will not be completed if the $250,000 target is not reached; 80% of the raised funds will go into the treasury, and 20% will be used for PERC liquidity. The 10 million PERC obtained by the team will be locked for at least 18 months. PERC does not represent company equity.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 09:10 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network, worth approximately 250 million USD.