🌟 @UNDP’s Blockchain Advisory Group is now officially launched, opening a new structured space with senior leaders from across the blockchain ecosystem. For us, this is part of a longer effort to move the blockchain for development conversation into a more responsible space.

Introducing Hashi: a new era of Bitcoin finance on Sui. Bitcoin's market cap exceeds $1 trillion. < 0.5% of it is used in DeFi. Hashi is here to change that, with commitments from industry leaders including BitGo, Bullish, Erebor Bank, FalconX, Fordefi, Ledger, and more.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup™ is projected to be the biggest sporting event in history, spanning 48 teams, 104 matches, and 16 host cities. To mitigate the risks of slow manual resolution or market outcome disputes, ADI Predictstreet adopted the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to automate market creation, resolution, and settlement.

MIP-12 - reduce Monad block times by decreasing the vote pacing from 400ms to 300ms - has been published by @category_xyz The vote pacing determines the min block time. Reducing it allows the network to proceed faster if quorum has been achieved The tech has already supported this improvement, but mainnet launched with an extra buffer. With this change and others, you’ll see the network continue to harden and streamline

IoTeX Mainnet v2.4.0 will officially launch on June 7! 🚀 The upcoming IoTeX L1 upgrade introduces the EVM Pectra hardfork, bringing native Account Abstraction (EIP-7702), enhanced network stability, and streamlined node operations. Key Highlights: 🔹 EIP-7702: Smart contract power for standard wallets (EOAs) 🔹 Exit Queue: Enhanced network security with a 3-stage exit process 🔹 Operator UX: Simplified BLS key management for node operators 📅 Activation Height: 48,985,561 ⏰ Estimated Time: Sun, Jun 7, 23:52 UTC Full details: github.com/iotexproject/iote…

🚨 UPDATE: Virtuals protocol to move $700M in $VIRTUAL to Chainlink CCIP for secure cross-chain AI agent payments.

2026 is the year Sui keeps shipping. Gasless stablecoin transfers: done. Next up:

LATEST: ⚡ Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade has gone live on a community test cluster, marking a key step toward a mainnet rollout targeted for later this year.

Big week. Let's get into it: enterprise-grade developer tooling with global payment giants already building, a protocol upgrade delivering the fastest economic tick rate of any network, and dominance across tokenized equity volume, RWA lending, and developer count. 📰 Headline News - @anza_xyz introduced Constellation, giving Solana multiple concurrent proposers and the fastest economic tick rate of any network. - @SolanaFndn shipped Solana Developer Platform for enterprise, bundling 20 infra providers into AI-ready APIs - Solana surpassed Ethereum in RWA lending deposits, reaching $1.2B to lead the category - @colosseum announced the Solana Frontier Hackathon and debuted Copilot, a skill turning agents into startup experts 📰 Launches - @Loopscale released PRISM to aggregate RWA settlement liquidity, starting with Apollo’s ACRED fund - Solana added Machine Payments Protocol @mpp support - @orca_so launched Vaults powered by @kamino, offering automated liquidity yield strategies - @PhoenixTrade activated referral codes, enabling users to earn fees on invited trader volume - @hinkal_protocol brought Hinkal Pay to Solana, unlocking ZK-powered payment privacy - @zerion added real-time PnL tracking for Solana traders - @mayan shipped Mayan 2.0 with faster cross-chain movement - @Predictefy opened its public beta for cross-platform prediction market arbitrage and tracking - @Loopscale hosted the first credit market denominated in Brazilian Real - @UmbraPrivacy opened its public TestFlight on iOS - @sanctumso launched its app on @solanamobile - @MoonPay open-sourced a wallet standard for AI agents, backed by 15 contributors including Solana - @KASTxyz released the @pudgypenguins Pengu Card, enabling spending at 150M merchants globally - @LightProtocol unveiled the Light Token SDK, reducing Solana ATA fees to $0.001 - @FlashTrade listed natural gas market with up to 10x leverage - @SuperteamTalent kicked off the Talent Tour 2026 to recruit top-tier builders - @ThePortMiami announced Ship Week V3 in Miami from May 4-10 - @Quicknode MPP added USDC payments on Solana support - @sns enabled .sol identity on @notdotmarket, bringing readable addresses to onchain trading - @playsolana premiered the first Gaming dApp Store on the PSG1 - @CaptchaApp launched a social platform with a model to eliminate social slop - @SolanaEvents revealed the first set of speakers for Accelerate USA - @_alphaarena enabled AI agents to compete in chess and poker matches with USDC via x402 - @fittedcloset announced partnerships with @Taskrabbit and @accuweather 📰 Milestones - Solana RWA holders reached a record 176K - @Backpack’s token reached $10M volume in 24 hours of its TGE - @worldlibertyfi’s USD1 supply on Solana surged 5x to $855M in two months - @Sunrise_DeFi processed $545M in 30-day volume - Solana settled ~94% of all-time onchain tokenized equity spot volume to date - @PlayBabylon clocked 490K trades across 1,171 agents within five days of its debut - Solana ranked #1 in all-time unique developers with over 10K builders - @onrefinance market on @kamino crossed $100M in market size If you enjoyed this week’s newsletter, please share it with an RT. Artwork by @ScubaSteveArt

Perpetuals are one of the most important financial primitives in crypto. Solana makes it viable to run them fully onchain, without sacrificing the performance real participants and institutions require. We want to support teams building onchain 👇

ICYMI: The Chainlink data standard is now live on @amazon's AWS Marketplace. Millions of developers and thousands of businesses on AWS can now build institutional-grade blockchain applications with Chainlink. @awscloud 🤝 Chainlink