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Solana Launches Binding Onchain Governance With Staker Override Rights

The Solana Foundation launched a fully onchain governance system on July 1, 2026, giving validators and SOL stakers a formal, binding mechanism to vote on protocol-level decisions for the first time in the network’s history. The system, called Solana Governance Proposals, or SGPs, is stake-weighted, Merkle-verified, and live at governance.solana.com, according to the Foundation’s announcement….

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Is Ethereum losing the L1 race to Solana?

Solana now beats Ethereum on trading volume, active users, and fee revenue. Ethereum still holds the money. Halfway through 2026, the question is no longer who is faster. It is whether the two chains are even running the same race. Summary Solana has overtaken Ethereum in Layer 1 activity with higher transaction volume, more active…

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Kraken’s FIFA deal: Crypto’s first world cup

For the first time in the tournament’s near-century of history, a crypto exchange sits inside FIFA’s official partner ecosystem. Six billion viewers, sixteen host cities, one industry trying to prove it has outgrown the arena-naming era. Here is what the deal actually is, and what it has to survive. Summary Kraken became FIFA’s first official…

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