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Biggest Week In History For Solana
The Solana community is gearing up for the “biggest” week in the network’s history, underpinned by an avalanche of product announcements at Breakpoint. Scheduled for December 11 in Abu Dhabi, Breakpoint is Solana’s annual conference and is billed to showcase a raft of project announcements to a wider audience.
Right off the bat, an X post revealed that the network is sizzling with major headlines indicating rising institutional interest. All Kalshi prediction markets are now tokenized on Solana, while Revolut has integrated the network for its nearly 70 million users.
Furthermore, financial services firm Figure has formed a real-world assets (RWA) consortium to bring in on-chain loans through Solana-based Hastra. In other upbeat institutional news, Franklin Templeton’s Solana ETF went live on the New York Stock Exchange, with Vanguard unlocking Solana ETFs for its client base.
Outside of the growing institutional interest in Solana, several native ecosystem projects are angling to showcase major launches at the Breakpoint event. In the days leading up to the event, Solana-based Drift launched version 3 of its open-source perpetual futures exchange.
Meanwhile, Solana Mobile has announced its token generation event. At Breakpoint, Solflare is tipped to receive pre-orders for its Shield NFC hardware wallet, while Fuse Wallet launched privacy-focused stablecoin transfers.
 
Solana Rakes In Impressive Milestones
Ahead of Breakpoint, Solana’s stablecoin supply surged beyond the $16 billion mark, setting a new peak for the network. Amid the stablecoin surge, several projects posted impressive numbers with Marinade Finance and America.fun setting new peaks in trading volumes.
Meanwhile, gamified capital markets platform Rush recorded $700 million in trading volume, while The Giving Block processed over $7 million in SOL donations. Amid the impressive numbers, Asgard Finance secured a $2.2 million seed round while HumidiFi raised nearly 1.6 million on-chain in under two minutes.
Already, traders are beginning to price in the buzz around the incoming “biggest week” on Solana, moving past a slump in network active addresses. Over the last 24 hours, SOL price has gained nearly 2%, climbing to $135, while daily trading volume has spiked by nearly 50%.