Open Standard has launched Open USD (OUSD) on Solana, with Bridge issuing the stablecoin and five founding partners committing more than $1 billion to establish liquidity.
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The Solana Foundation says its analysis of reduced slot times found stable skip rates, shorter dead-time periods and a smaller contiguous leadership window at the current 250ms target, while vote latency rose most in Asia and South America.
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The Blockchain Association said Summer Mersinger will leave the CEO role on October 16, with founding leader Kristin Smith returning as interim CEO the following day. Mersinger will remain an adviser through the end of 2026.
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The Solana Foundation has appointed Rachel Conlan as chief strategy officer and Jamal Raees as general manager of payments, assigning them roles focused on institutional strategy, ecosystem growth and payments adoption.
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NYSE Group and Blockchain.com have signed an exploratory memorandum of understanding covering potential access to tokenized U.S. exchange-listed stocks and ETFs. The proposed service is not live and remains subject to regulatory approvals…
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The SEC has issued five-year, conditional relief for qualifying venues to support permissioned trading of tokenized NMS stocks on public distributed ledgers. Solana says its infrastructure fits the model, but its deployment and volume…
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