Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade went live on the public testnet, replacing TowerBFT with Votor and targeting 150 milliseconds transaction finality, down from roughly 12.8 seconds.

The $SOL Foundation appointed former Binance executive Rachel Conlan as Chief Strategy Officer and former Polygon Labs executive Jamal Raees as General Manager of Payments to lead institutional partnerships and global payments adoption.

$SOL reached an all-time high of over 8 million daily active users, processed more than $5 trillion in stablecoin transaction volume this year, and surpassed 1,000,000 tokenized stock holders with tokenized equity supply topping $620 million.

$SOL spot ETFs recorded $14 million in inflows on September 23, bringing cumulative inflows to $1.486 billion, while the network maintains a 46% market share among non-BTC/ETH spot ETFs by volume.

Canada's first regulated CAD stablecoin CADD launched on solana, Tether routed $500 million in new USDT to Binance via Solana instead of Ethereum, and Injective integrated with Backpack Wallet for direct access within the Solana ecosystem.

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