Switchboard's oracle service for Solana ended support on September 25, giving applications only six days' warning to migrate their price feed infrastructure. The tight deadline has raised questions about which Solana applications still rely on Switchboard's data.
OpenSea has integrated full Solana NFT trading support into its OS2 platform, allowing users to buy, sell, and trade Solana-based digital collectibles alongside assets from over 25 other blockchains. The launch comes more than four years after an initial beta and includes popular collections like Mad Lads and Claynosaurz.
A security vulnerability in an outdated Rain card smart contract led to approximately $1.1 million being drained from Solana-based platforms on August 28, with Avici suffering $500,800 in losses affecting 1,685 users. The exploit caused Avici's token to crash 49%.
HumidiFi, one of Solana's busiest decentralized exchanges, suspended all trading on August 22 after an internal network incident compromised a portion of its own systems. The platform clarified that customer assets were not affected, only platform funds.
Solana validators are signaling support for linked governance proposals SGP-0003 (SIMD-0550 and SIMD-0553) that would introduce resource-based transaction fees and double the disinflation rate, potentially increasing daily SOL token burns from approximately $47,000 to $650,000.
Solana memecoin platform Pump.fun terminated over 40 employees approximately two months before their PUMP token allocations were scheduled to vest, according to a Sandmark report, leaving at least one former employee without access to tokens potentially worth millions.
A typo in a Pump.fun bounty prompt resulted in a dispute over a 40 SOL payment to an Indian man who got a tattoo, but the error spawned a viral memecoin ($BOUTYWORK) that has generated over $27,000 in creator fees. The incident emerged from Pump.fun's new bounty platform that pays users for completing tasks, which has led to various extreme marketing stunts.
