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Solana news and analysis from LC Insight: 21 stories, newest first.

AI & RWA

Rumor vs record: will an "ANT" Anthropic stock token go live on Solana on IPO day?

A viral post says a tokenized Anthropic share called ANT will launch on Solana the day Anthropic starts trading in public. CoinGecko does list an Anthropic xStock with a Solana address, but under a different ticker, with zero supply and no price. We found no Anthropic or issuer statement that sets a date.

Markets

Only 89 of 210 KOL wallets made money in 30 days. Top earner kurtz won 11 of 11

DeepSea's realized PnL table shows most tracked influencer wallets lost money over 30 days, yet the group is up $374,000 as a few big winners carried the total.

Markets

Stablecoins shrank $1.25 billion in a day. USDT and USDC on Ethereum fell $1.06 billion

The eight biggest dollar stablecoins lost $1.25 billion in 24 hours and $4.86 billion in a week, DefiLlama data show. Ethereum and Hyperliquid shed the most, while USDC grew on Solana, Arbitrum and Base and USDT grew on Plasma.

Markets

Solana launchpad token STONK fell 32% in a day and lost $45 million in under two days

StonkFun's STONK token dropped from about $0.10 to $0.044 between Saturday and Sunday evening, now 88% below its September record. Most of the trading ran through Solana DEX pools, CoinGecko's market list shows, and one Meteora pool handled nearly half of all trading.

Markets

Shorts now pay longs on 77% of ether's open futures bets. On Friday it was 21.5%

After Sunday's 4.6% drop, funding turned negative on Binance's biggest ether market. Bitcoin barely moved: 1.4% of its bets lean short.

Infrastructure

6 crypto projects are giving up their own chains for Solana, Ethereum, Base, Sui and Arc

A table of nine "chain migrations" is going viral. We checked each row against the projects' own posts: six are confirmed, three are not. Here is where each one is going and what its token did since.

Markets

Bitcoin lost $4,400 in four hours. Why did ETH and XRP fall even harder?

Bitcoin slid from about $80,300 to under $76,000 on November 5, most of it between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. ET. Ether, Solana and XRP dropped 7% to 9%, and the whole crypto market shed about 8% in a day.

Markets

The TRUMP memecoin hit a record low of $1.22. It is now 98% below its January 2025 peak

The Solana token fell 12.6% in two hours on November 4 as trading volume more than quadrupled, CoinGecko's data shows. Its 24-hour volume is now larger than its whole market value.

Markets

Crypto influencers made $590,000 in 30 days. Sharks in DeepSea's live feed lost $10.7 million

DeepSea's 30-day realized profit table puts its live-feed KOL wallets in the green and shark wallets deep in the red. On Hyperliquid, one KOL opened a $538,000 silver short in nine minutes.

Markets

Only 29 of 59 tracked BSC wallets made money last week. Smart money won, influencers lost

DeepSea's weekly data shows BSC smart money wallets finished $7,800 up while eight tracked KOLs lost $55,400. One influencer wallet had no green day in seven.

Markets

448 of 617 Solana influencers lost money last week. The best one won all seven days

DeepSea's tracked crypto influencers on Solana closed the week $395,600 down. A trader called zeropnl made $82,900 with seven green days, while one smart money wallet lost $1.81 million in a single day.

Airdrops

Backpack gave users 25% of BP and insiders nothing. BP is up 285% from its first close

Backpack airdropped 250 million BP to points holders and Mad Lads owners on March 23, 2026, worth about $57 million at CoinGecko's first daily close. No team or investor tokens unlocked, and the next 37.5% of supply unlocks only when the company hits growth milestones.

Airdrops

Jupuary 2026 never landed: 75% of JUP votes shelved a 700 million JUP airdrop

Jupiter's yearly airdrop was due to start with 200 million JUP in early 2026. Stakers voted on February 22 to park all 700 million tokens in a locked community wallet instead. No new vote has been called since, and JUP now trades about 41% above its close that day.

Guides

What is a rug pull? How crypto exit scams work and 6 warning signs to check

A rug pull is when a project's own insiders take buyers' money and walk away, by draining the pool, printing tokens through a backdoor or dumping their supply. Most of the warning signs are public on-chain before you buy.

Guides

What is a gas fee? How Ethereum fees work, who gets paid and why they spike

A gas fee is what you pay Ethereum to run a transaction: gas used times the base fee plus an optional tip. The base fee is burned, the tip goes to the validator, and the price can climb 12.5% a block when the network gets busy.

Infrastructure

Send USDC on 12 blockchains, get dollars: OnePay adds Stripe-powered checking deposits

Since October 30, 2026, select US OnePay customers can send USDC from an outside wallet straight into OnePay Checking. Stripe's Bridge converts it to dollars with no conversion fee at launch, but the coins are not FDIC insured on the way in.

Guides

What is Solana? Alpenglow explained, from 12.8-second finality to a 150 ms goal

Alpenglow is Solana's new consensus protocol. Its first part, Votor, went live on mainnet on October 21, 2026, replacing TowerBFT and cutting the time for a transaction to become final from about 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds.

Guides

What is x402? The HTTP payment protocol that lets AI agents pay per request

x402 is an open protocol that uses the web's "402 Payment Required" status code so apps and AI agents can pay for an API call or a web page in stablecoins, inside the request itself, with no account or card form.

Culture

Pump.fun added Monad and TON and is pushing perps. So why is PUMP down 25% since October 12?

The Solana memecoin app now lets users trade Monad and TON tokens from one USDC balance and is pushing leveraged perps. Its PUMP token kept sliding, and daily revenue fell about 35% in 11 days.

Projects

Meteora paid Solana LPs 20 million MET for the fees they earned. That was the last season

Meteora handed about 2% of its token supply to liquidity providers, based on a year of trading fees. Claims closed on October 21, the points system is over, and MET has fallen to about half its peak.

Infrastructure

Solana swapped its consensus engine mid-flight: finality fell from 12.8 seconds to 150 ms

Alpenglow went live on Solana's main network on October 21, 2026, replacing the voting system the chain had run since day one. Payments now settle for good in a fraction of a second, validators pay a new fee, and the second half of the upgrade has no date.