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a16z Crypto invests $50M in Solana infrastructure provider Jito through a private token sale, likely one of a16z's largest crypto investments in recent years (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374934/a16z-crypto-invest-50…

The US Treasury and IRS issue guidance allowing crypto products to offer staking rewards under a new safe harbor (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/348044/ethereum-solana-etfs-green-light-staking-us-treasury-irs-guidance

Ethereum, Solana ETFs Get Green Light for Staking via US Treasury, IRS Crypto Fund Guidance
The IRS and Treasury said trusts can now generate staking rewards for crypto ETF investors without fear of tax or regulatory repercussions.

European crypto platform SwissBorg to reimburse users after $41 million theft https://therecord.media/swissborg-platform-solana-cryptocurrency-stolen

Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/10/06/bee-maps-r…

Bee Maps Raises $32M to Scale Solana-Powered Decentralized Mapping Network
The fresh capital will be used to distribute more devices, enhance AI models that process and update map features, and boost contributor incentives.

Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a PIPE offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin to start a Solana asset treasury strategy (Adam James/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/369776/galaxy-jump-multicoin-solana-treasury-2

Looks like blockchains have finally found a serious use case, just maybe not the one predicted/hoped for...
This article is about #Glassworm, the latest major exploit in JavaScript-land, targetting VSCode and using #Solana as command infrastructure and Google Calendar events as backup. It'…

GlassWorm: First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX Marketplace | Koi Blog

INR meets Multi-Contrast MRI Reconstruction
Natascha Niessen (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Carolin M. Pirkl (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Ana Beatriz Solana (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Hannah Eichhorn (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Veronika Spieker (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Wenqi Huang (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Tim Sprenger (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Marion I. Menzel (on behalf of the PREDICTOM con…

INR meets Multi-Contrast MRI Reconstruction
Multi-contrast MRI sequences allow for the acquisition of images with varying tissue contrast within a single scan. The resulting multi-contrast images can be used to extract quantitative information on tissue microstructure. To make such multi-contrast sequences feasible for clinical routine, the usually very long scan times need to be shortened e.g. through undersampling in k-space. However, this comes with challenges for the reconstruction. In general, advanced reconstruction techniques such…

Weet u het nog, de blockchain hype, het was deels uiteindelijk geen hype gezien de ontwikkelingen in de VS en wellicht ook in Europa. Bitcoin, Ethereum en diverse andere cryptocurrencies zijn er nog, stable coins zijn in opkomst etcetera
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4om0l

'Europa maakt haast met digitale euro en overweegt Ethereum en Solana' | 392 A
Cryptocast | BNR · Episode

DIT: Dimension Reduction View on Optimal NFT Rarity Meters
Dmitry Belousov, Yury Yanovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12671 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12671…

DIT: Dimension Reduction View on Optimal NFT Rarity Meters
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have become a significant digital asset class, each uniquely representing virtual entities such as artworks. These tokens are stored in collections within smart contracts and are actively traded across platforms on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana blockchains. The value of NFTs is closely tied to their distinctive characteristics that define rarity, leading to a growing interest in quantifying rarity within both industry and academia. While there are existing rarity mete…

Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wes…

The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/us-puts-gdp-data-on-th…

Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital euro plans, and considering Ethereum or Solana over a private blockchain after the US passed the Genius Act (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8ad60169-d1e5-4d2c-b928-d53d668f0ec6

Bullish says it has received all $1.15B in capital raised from its IPO in stablecoins, including USDC, USDG, and PYUSD, marking a first for US public markets (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/

Crypto Platform Bullish (BLSH) Takes IPO Proceeds in USDC, Ripple USD and Other Stablecoins
Most of the proceeds were settled on Solana and predominantly in Circle's USDC token.