🫡 September on Solana was a convergence month.
Tokenized stocks became collateral.
RWAs became lending markets.
Assets from other chains became Solana liquidity.
The biggest shift: Solana stopped looking like a pile of protocols and started looking like one connected financial market.
Everything that happened in September👇
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RWAs BECAME FINANCIAL PRIMITIVES
→ Solana RWA ecosystem passed $4.6B TVL.
→ RWA holders climbed above 600K.
→ Tokenized stock holders crossed 1M.
→ Tokenized equity supply hit new ATHs at $700M+.
→ Tokenized equities deposited into lending protocols reached $60M+.
→ @onrefinance crossed $300M+, now the largest RWA market on Kamino.
→ @xStocksFi passed 300K holders and did $500M+ in tokenized asset volume over 10 days.
→ @sunrise kept widening its asset universe: stocks, ETFs, commodities and crypto assets issued through regulated infrastructure.
→ @Backpack made tokenized stocks and ETFs usable as collateral for borrowing, futures and margin.
→ @Securitize's HINC became collateral on @Loopscale.
→ Kamino added private credit, auto loans, commodities and GPU-infrastructure credit markets.
The defining change: a tokenized stock stopped being something you just hold.
It can now be:
→ collateral
→ a lending position
→ a perpetual
→ a launch pair
→ a yield strategy
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KAMINO BECAME THE INSTITUTIONAL BRIDGE
→ @Kamino pulled in $50M+ through Binance Wallet in under 24 hours.
→ Partnered with @galaxyhq on institutional USDC and USDT lending vaults.
→ Institutional vaults grew to 29 curated vaults.
→ Commodity Yield Vault added $20M of capacity, targeting 7%+ yields.
→ Added USDC to HastraFi's tokenized auto-loan market.
→ Launched new RWA and private-credit markets with @AllezLabs, MidasRWA and Steakhouse Financial.
→ Became easier to reach through Binance Wallet, Fordefi Earn and other channels.
TVL is only part of it. Kamino now links institutional capital, RWAs and onchain yield.
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JUPITER CONNECTED THE ECOSYSTEM
→ @JupiterExchange launched Universal Deposits.
→ Move assets from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Sui, receive USDC directly on Solana.
→ Jupiter Earn hit a new ATH of $2.41B in deposits.
→ @Jup_Mobile did $607M in August trading volume and added Earn, Borrow and Strategies.
→ Perp markets expanded.
→ New execution infrastructure improved routing.
Jupiter is moving past swap aggregator and becoming a distribution layer for Solana finance.
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TRADING GOT MORE SOPHISTICATED
→ @PhoenixTrade opened SOL and other assets as perp collateral across 60+ markets.
→ @Solflare passed $65M in perp volume in its first three weeks.
→ @BulletXYZ launched 24/7 RAY perpetuals.
→ @PerpsPadfun connected launchpads with perpetual markets.
→ @VelocityDEX opened its beta to everyone.
→ @Titan_Exchange launched Titan Pro with advanced trading tools.
The stack keeps moving:
spot → perps → collateral → prediction markets → structured positions.
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THE LAUNCHPAD WAR HEATED UP
→ @Fomo hit $1M+ daily revenue and passed Pumpfun in daily revenue.
→ Fomo reached an ATH of roughly 97K daily active traders.
→ @LaunchOnSF overtook PumpFun and Hyperliquid in 24h revenue on one of its strongest days.
→ @MeteoraAG's DBC now supports virtually any token pair.
→ @Raydium LaunchLab expanded custom pair support.
→ @Pumpfun introduced Holder Rewards, sharing trading fees with holders.
→ LaunchOnSF kept pushing the idea of pairing new tokens with real-world assets.
Stocks, commodities and crypto are now ingredients for new tokens and new markets.
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DISTRIBUTION KEPT EXPANDING
→ $3T in cumulative DEX volume.
→ Roughly 5.2B monthly transactions.
→ $143M in monthly app revenue, first among all chains.
→ Stablecoin supply at $17.3B, another ATH.
→ About 420M USDC transactions in one month.
→ 76% of all x402 transactions.
→ Crypto card spending hit $100M monthly, another ATH.
→ Jupiter, Kamino, @MoonPay and Binance Wallet kept bringing new users into Solana finance.
→ @world_xyz brought a fresh wave of consumer attention with its airdrop.
More liquidity, and a lot more doors into it.
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STABLECOINS + PAYMENTS KEPT MOVING
→ @Column integrated stablecoins directly into its banking infrastructure.
→ @Seedless_Wallet launched a money app with instant payouts to Nigerian bank accounts.
→ @NOMADZxyz launched flight bookings with stablecoin cashback.
→ @SP3NDdotshop hit a new ATH in monthly stablecoin spending.
→ Solana became the dominant chain for x402 machine-to-machine payments.
Payments moved well beyond crypto-native trading. Stablecoins are becoming the settlement layer under real-world activity.
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MORE ASSETS CAME TO SOLANA
→ Arbitrum's $ARB went live through Sunrise.
→ $DOGE, $DKNG, $WEN, $FLWS and others joined the ecosystem.
→ @ZetaChain's community voted 99.4% to wind down its L1 and migrate $ZETA to Solana.
→ $ZAMA went live through Sunrise.
→ $PEAQ also arrived.
→ @Helius graduated Parsed Streams and Parsed Events APIs out of beta.
More assets. More infrastructure. More ecosystems plugging into the same liquidity layer.
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PRODUCTS KEPT MATURING
→ @NolusProtocol upgraded Margin Markets with better partial-liquidation visibility and new markets.
→ @hylo_so crossed $30M+ open interest across xSOL, xBTC and xHYPE.
→ @backyard_fi crossed $1.2M TVL.
→ @reflectmoney filled its $300K tranching pre-deposit cap.
→ @gammafi kept improving transparency on agent execution, risk controls and onchain NAV.
→ @elementaldefi announced the V1 to V2 vault migration.
→ @MeteoraAG passed 80M $MET staked.
Same loop everywhere: ship, get users, learn, improve, ship again.
Teams are making complex financial products easier to use.
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CONSUMER + CULTURE KEPT GROWING
→ @solanamobile kept expanding the Seeker ecosystem.
→ @PlayKintara launched its Season Pass.
→ @Collector_Crypt expanded its gaming and collectibles ecosystem.
→ @Beezie brought authenticated luxury goods onchain.
→ A PSA 10 First Edition Charizard sold for an $825K winning bid, settled on Solana.
→ @joinfrontier launched Traders Season 1 with $1M+ in rewards.
→ @Solflare and @Superteam kept running user and community campaigns.
Solana's consumer layer now reaches well past trading.
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GROWTH BROUGHT RISK TOO
→ @Dominion_Market's $SILV fell sharply after a treasury wallet exploit.
→ @ArcanePrivacy announced its shutdown after funds were stolen from its staking contract.
→ @Switchboardxyz announced it will shut down after operating since 2021.
→ Several new markets and launch platforms had to add safeguards as volume accelerated.
More financial infrastructure means more financial risk. September showed both.
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WHAT SEPTEMBER SHOWED
Solana is building the financial primitives around tokenized assets:
Stocks become collateral.
Collateral becomes credit.
Credit becomes yield.
Assets become trading pairs.
Trading becomes perps.
And it all settles on the same network.
September was the month Solana stopped looking like a blockchain with financial apps and started looking like a connected onchain financial market. 🫡
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