Solana News: Best of Breakpoint 2025! Mega DDoS Attack Thwarted

Breakpoint announcements cap off another big week for Solana where TradFi meets internet capital markets.

Market Overview

Prices may be down across all of crypto, but Solana and its ecosystem keep on shipping. Look no further than the recently concluded Solana Breakpoint Conference in Abu Dhabi, and the fact that it survived the fourth-biggest DDoS attack in history with “zero impact.”

Crypto charts remain gloomy, with Bitcoin struggling to bounce back after slipping 7% to $86,300. Degens were rekt, losing nearly $600 million in liquidations in 24 hours.

In the end, the sector’s market slumped 9% to $176 billion while trading volume took a deeper dive, plunging 30% to $11.6 billion.

Source: CoinMarketCap

With this week’s headlines, you can easily see why Solana captured the lion’s share of crypto attention for the second consecutive year.

Visa just flipped the switch on USDC settlement for U.S. banks on Solana, with Cross River and Lead Bank already live. Institutional stablecoin rails are here, and a broader rollout is lined up for 2026.

Source: Visa

CME expanded its crypto suite with spot-quoted Solana futures, offering real-time price exposure through its smallest contracts yet.

Source: CME Group

State Street and Galaxy are bringing tokenized cash to Solana with a 24/7 on-chain sweep fund, backed by a $200 million seed from Ondo Finance. The SWEEP fund will run on PYUSD and is set to launch on Solana in early 2026.

Source: Ondo

And the Solana Breakpoint 2025 announcements provided all the toppings to cap off the week.

Breakpoint 2025’s Biggest Announcements

Last week, Solana’s annual flagship conference Breakpoint had its fourth edition in Abu Dhabi (following previous years in Lisbon, Amsterdam and Singapore), and it was bigger and better than anything we’ve seen to date, despite a muted market. Breakpoint 2026 is set to take place in London.

ICYMI, here are some announcements from the Etihad Arena in Yas Island that got purple-pilled maxis pumped:

Firedancer finally went live on the Solana mainnet after three years of development, already producing 50,000 blocks and pushing the network toward 1 million TPS.
Phantom is adding Kalshi-powered prediction markets for 20 million users directly inside the wallet.
Solana Mobile will integrate its stack at the Android device chipset level, and launch its Seeker (SKR) airdrop in Q1 2026.
Solflare, who together with Bonk had a spectacular drone-powered closing party show that came with a crazy QR code airdrop, announced Magic AI, an AI-powered wallet assistant to simplify transactions.

Coinbase is expanding to Solana with native DEX trading for Solana assets inside its app.
The Solana Foundation is building a permissionless bridge to the XRP Ledger to plug Solana into the XRPFi ecosystem.
R3 plans to launch the Corda Protocol on Solana to let asset managers issue tokenized real-world assets on-chain.

Solana's Performance This Week

SOL is down 8% week-on-week after sliding to $128.

Source: CoinMarketCap

L1 Ranking Update

Solana’s total value locked (TVL) dropped slightly to $8.72 billion, but the biggest changes were below the pack, with Tron flipping Base in fifth position.

Source: DeFiLlama

DeFi

Solana’s weekly DEX volume dipped 3% while the 30-day cumulative figure fell marginally to $95 billion.

Source: DeFiLlama

Biggest Winners & Losers

Top Performers

Solana’s big gainers cooked, with the top six blasting over 100% gains week-on-week.

Yala (YU): +367.98%
SentismAI (SENTS): +153.22%
Fasttoken (FTN): +140.29.1%
SmarDEX (SDEX): +137.48%
Bitlight (LIGHT): +129.69
Jelly-My-Jelly (JELLYJELLY): +115.85%

Biggest Losers

Source: CoinMarketCap

Latest Solana News

Solana Gets Stress Tested at Scale

Solana shrugs off an industrial scale 6 Tbps DDoS attack with minimal impact—a real-world stress test that highlights the network’s robustness and maturity.

Source: Pipe Network

Wall Street Goes On-Chain

JPMorgan executes a $50 million tokenized corporate bond issuance for Galaxy Digital on Solana. It marks one of the earliest U.S. on-chain debt deals on a public blockchain.

Source: Coin Bureau

Solana Hits Brazil’s Stock Market

Solana lands on Brazil’s B3 exchange. Valour launches the VSOL ETP, giving investors regulated access through traditional capital markets.

What You Can Do Now

Reduce leveraged exposure until market conditions improve.
Track Solana channels for Breakpoint announcement updates.
Secure your wallet and verify activity while Solana handles a DDoS attack.

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