From September 20 to 21, the fourth Breakpoint was held in Singapore. In addition to the main venue, this conference also opened more than 40 peripheral activities. Many well-known ecological project founders, including Bybit CEO Ben Zhou, OKX Chief Innovation Officer Jason Lau, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, and Visa Crypto Director Guy Sheffield, attended the conference.

The Breakpoint conference is the largest and most influential conference in the Solana ecosystem, carrying the entire Solana ecosystem's expectations for information exchange on value judgments, future directions, and wealth codes. Immediately following TOKEN2049, Breakpoint will continue the craze for Web3 in Singapore, providing an unparalleled stage for developers and enthusiasts of the global Solana ecosystem, and promoting the innovative development and cross-field cooperation of the Solana ecosystem. Official website of the conference: https://solana.com/breakpoint It is worth mentioning that the fermentation time of Breakpoint last year was almost in line with the explosive pull cycle of SOL. Will Solana repeat last year's explosive plot this year? Readers can refer to: Digging for Solana Ecosystem, What are the potential benefits at the Breakpoint Conference? In addition, the latest news shows that the next Solana Breakpoint will be held in Abu Dhabi from December 11 to 13, 2025, which is also exciting.

BlockBeats followed and reported on the conference in real time. Here are the hot developments:

September 21

Jambo launches JamboPhone 2, still priced at $99

On September 21, Web3 phone Jambo announced the launch of JamboPhone 2 at Solana Breakpoint, integrated with Solana, still priced at only $99, and supporting shipping to 128 countries/regions.

JamboPhone 2 is equipped with JamboGPT, and users who own both JamboPhone 1 and 2 will receive rewards from Jambo ecosystem partners.

Sanctum to launch Creator Coins, Cloud Card and Wonderland Season 2

On September 21, according to SolanaFloor, Solana Ecosystem LST Protocol Sanctum Co-Founder FP Lee announced at the Solana Breakpoint Conference that it will launch "Creator Coins", allowing anyone to build, grow and profit from their communities.

Sanctum will also work with BasedApp and Jupiter to launch the world's first SOL card "Cloud Card", which will support users to use SOL and stablecoins in more than 100 countries. At the same time, it also announced that Wonderland Season 2 will also be launched.

Re-pledge protocol Solayer will launch yield stablecoin SUSDC

On September 21, according to SolanaFloor, Solana Ecosystem Re-pledge Protocol Solayer announced at the Solana Breakpoint Conference that it will cooperate with OpenEden to launch yield stablecoin SUSDC.

BlockBeats previously reported that on August 28, Solayer completed a $12 million seed round of financing, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Hack VC, Nomad Capital, Race Capital, ABCDE, and Arthur Hayes' family office Maelstrom. This round of financing brings Solayer's valuation to $80 million.

Solana Validator Client Firedancer Now Live on Mainnet

On September 21, Firedancer Blockchain and Protocol Engineer Liam Heeger announced at Solana Breakpoint that the Solana validator client Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto, is now live on mainnet (non-voting mode).

Parallel founder: Survival simulation game Colony plans to conduct closed testing in early 2025

On September 21, the founder of Parallel spoke at the Solana 2024 Breakpoint conference and said that the survival simulation game Colony plans to conduct closed testing in early 2025. In addition, Colony has been optimized for Solana mobile phones.

Coinbase plans to introduce cbBTC to Solana

On September 21, Hassan Ahmed, head of Coinbase Southeast Asia, announced at today's Solana Breakpoint 2024 conference that Coinbase intends to introduce its cbBTC tokens into the Solana ecosystem, a move aimed at promoting the integration of Bitcoin and high-performance public chains.

September 20

Sky Co-founder: Plans to introduce Sky to the Solana network and launch a 2 million SKY incentive plan per week

On September 20, Sky (formerly Maker) co-founder Rune said that at the Solana 2024 Breakpoint conference, a proposal to be submitted was presented, and plans to introduce Sky to Solana.

The plan will use Wormhole to bridge SKY, USDS, and sUSDS, and allocate 2 million SKY per week to the Solana DeFi protocol that integrates USDS and SKY through an incentive plan.

Circle CEO: Will cooperate with Solana to launch AI agent function in 2025

On September 20, Circle CEO Jeremy said at the Solana Breakpoint Conference that in 2025, it will cooperate with Solana to launch AI agent to ensure the flexibility and security of infrastructure such as wallets, improve the speed and stability of APP interaction with protocols, and reduce transfer fees. Jeremy also mentioned in his speech that USDC currently supports 15 chains, the total transaction volume of CCTP exceeds 12.6 billion US dollars, and the expansion has exceeded more than 100 countries.

Market News: Franklin Templeton plans to launch mutual funds on Solana

On September 20, at today's Solana Breakpoint conference, it was reported that Franklin Templeton, which has an asset management scale of US$1.3 trillion, plans to launch mutual funds on Solana.

Phantom announced the launch of an embedded wallet to help developers simplify the new user registration process

On September 20, Phantom announced the launch of an embedded wallet at today's Solana Breakpoint conference to help developers simplify the new user registration process.

It is reported that the embedded wallet does not require a mnemonic phrase, and users only need an email address and a four-digit PIN code to create a secure self-hosted account. The wallet is fully functional, including Swap, viewing balances, monitoring transactions, etc.

BlockBeats previously reported that Phantom announced the acquisition of Bitski, an NFT platform backed by a16z, in late May this year. As part of the transaction, Phantom will bring "embedded wallet" functionality to Solana to simplify the process, which is Phantom's first acquisition.

Solana independent verification client Frankendancer officially launched on the Solana mainnet

On September 20, Kevin Bowers, chief scientist of Solana's independent verification client Firedancer, demonstrated the operation of Frankendancer on the mainnet at the Solana BreakPoint conference. In addition, Frankendancer uses a hybrid validator client of the Firedancer part and the Agave part. The GitHub address is: https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/releases/tag/v0.113.20007.

Jupiter announces acquisition of DEX aggregator Coinhall

On September 20, Jupiter co-founder Siong Ong announced at the Solana Breakpoint event in Singapore on Friday that in addition to the blockchain browser SolanaFM, Jupiter also acquired Coinhall, the number one DEX aggregator on Cosmos.

Coinhall is an on-chain trading terminal that provides swap services between decentralized trading platforms on the Solana and Cosmos blockchains. According to Ong, Coinhall has more than 225,000 users on 23 chains.

X also has KOLs and investment research institutions who personally participated in the Solana Breakpoint conference to summarize the key points of the conference. BlockBeats compiled and reproduced them as follows:

Sam Morris - Ghostwriter

Solana Breakpoint 2024 is here as scheduled.

More than 5,000 developers, investors, and enthusiasts gathered in Singapore to explore the latest innovations happening on Solana. Keynote speeches, debates, and fireside chats on two main stages, from the left curve to the right curve.

Let’s unveil the excitement of Breakpoint.

Major Announcements

· Firedancer Client: The introduction of the Firedancer client to the mainnet will enhance Solana’s scalability and performance. This upgrade will reduce transaction times and increase network throughput.

· Proof of History (PoH) Improvements: The conference delved into the continued progress of the Proof of History consensus mechanism, highlighting its role in maintaining high transaction speeds and security on the network.

· Jupiter Mobile: Jupiter Mobile is officially launched, aiming to attract millions of users to the Solana ecosystem. The mobile platform will offer zero fees and allow users to purchase $SOL through Apple Pay, Google Pay, or credit cards. The platform also provides a one-click exchange function to simplify cryptocurrency transactions.

· Ape Mint Protocol: Jupiter has also launched the Ape Mint protocol, which allows users to create and issue Memecoin on the Solana blockchain. Ape Mint’s transaction fee is set at 0.5%, which is competitive with other platforms such as Pump Fun, which charges 1%. The protocol supports Google login and is optimized for mobile.

Focus on DeFi

· MEV & DeFi Day: A full-day event focused on Maximizing Extractable Value (MEV) in DeFi. Speakers from major DeFi projects such as Drift Protocol and Helius Labs discussed how MEV affects trading strategies and liquidity on Solana.

Community Building Initiative

· Block Zero Summit: This event brought together validators and community members to discuss the future of Solana’s decentralized ecosystem and how to strengthen community engagement.

· DRiP Haus Event: Focused on Creators and Collectibles, this event highlighted the importance of NFTs in the Solana ecosystem, showcasing new tools and platforms for creators to use.

Important Partnerships

· Franklin Templeton: The institution with $1.3 trillion in assets under management announced plans to launch a mutual fund on the Solana network, giving both institutional and retail investors access to Solana assets.

· Societe Generale Forge: The partnership aims to launch a stablecoin (EUR) pegged to the Euro and compliant with MiCA regulations on Solana.

· Citibank Partnership: Hints at a possible partnership to drive seamless transactions and advanced smart contract applications on the Solana network.

Summary

Solana is no longer just hype. It is now a real player in the blockchain space. With the Firedancer client live on mainnet, competitors will be hard to match, and those downtime incidents will never happen again. Has Solana become the real Ethereum killer?

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Chip the Researcher | HC Capital

Solana Breakpoint 2024 Highlights

Breakpoint 2024 has just ended, let’s review the most noteworthy highlights.

1. Firedancer is officially launched

The Firedancer client has officially been launched on the Solana mainnet! In the live demonstration, Firedancer processed up to 1.04 million transactions per second-an impressive number, right? With this event, Solana’s "Mainnet Testing Phase" has officially ended.

2. Jupiter Exchange Releases Major Update

· Metropolis API: Provides the most comprehensive list of tokens with real-time price and liquidity data.

· Jupiter RFQ: Work with Solana’s top market makers to enhance liquidity.

· Jupiter Perps v2: Manage community liquidity and risks more effectively.

· Dove Oracle Standard: Provide gas-free transactions and significantly improve performance.

· Jupiter Mobile App: Attract millions of users with 0% exchange fees.

· ApeJupiter Pro: No seed phrase required, only 0.5% handling fee.

· New projects: LFG V2, FOX and G.U.M. are under development.

3. Solana mobile phone SEEKER released: SEEKER has been officially released, but unfortunately no prototype has been shown at the event. Everyone looks forward to experiencing it in person!

4. PayPal’s affirmation: PayPal said: “Solana is more suitable for payments than Ethereum.” This is a strong affirmation from PayPal.

5. Phantom Wallet: Just launched an integrated wallet that supports login via email and PIN, making operation more convenient than ever.

6. Franklin Templeton: This giant with $1.3 trillion in assets under management announced that it will launch a mutual fund on Solana.

7. Citibank: Researching the migration of funds and smart contracts to Solana.

8. Coinbase: Plans to launch native cbBTC on Solana.

9. Tensor NFT Market: Released http://Vector.fun and fully opened the source code of Tensor development tools.

10. Magic Eden: Shared more information about the upcoming $ME token and new cross-chain trading features.

There is more exciting news:

· Bonk Inu: Launched $BONK ETP in the United States.

· Render Network: Moved 60% of assets from Ethereum to Solana.

· Kamino Finance: Announced the launch of a new spot leverage feature.

· Sanctum: Launched “Creator Coins” and the world’s first physical SOL card.

· Pyth Network: Introduced Oracle Integrity Staking (OIS).

· Solayer Lab: Launched a re-staking protocol for $SUSDC.

· Zeus Network: Released ZeusScan.

· Zeta Markets: Demonstrated Solana’s first L2 solution.

· Hivemapper: Sold data to three of the top ten map-making companies in the world.

· Iggy Azalea: Launched Motherland, a crypto casino using $MOTHER tokens.

· Backpack: Partnered with StraitsX to launch a payment system in Singapore.

· Audit Wizard: Developed the open source analysis tool Radar.

· Arcium: Plans to build a global supercomputer that uses Solana energy.

· Fuse Wallet: Launched Fuse Pay, a virtual Visa card for stablecoin payments.

· Societe Generale: Launched the first MiCA-compliant EUR stablecoin on Solana.

· Renzo Protocol: Launched ezUSDC.

· Reown (formerly WalletConnect): Expanded to Solana and introduced the WCT token.

· Huma Finance: Connected its PayFi network to Solana.

· Helio Pay: Launched Blink, enabling direct payments to Shopify stores.

· Soar Chain: Migrated to Solana.

· Marinade Finance: Partnered with Zodia Custody.

· Sky Ecosystem: Launch $USDS SPL stablecoin.

· Streamflow: Plans to launch permissionless staking tokens in October.

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Lorraine

#Breakpoint2024 is the top 1 blockchain conference in my heart.

The perfect location—Suntec The roar of F1 engines outside the venue stimulates the adrenaline of passers-by, and the annual summit of the top 5 public chain in the venue visits Asia for the first time, mobilizing the dopamine secretion of visitors. Token2049 is huge, but being in it will inevitably bring a sense of disorder and confusion; Breakpoint is more like a sifted funnel. When you know that everyone comes for @solana, this is already the first step to its success. The @SolanaFndn team, who is good at creating momentum and atmosphere, will definitely not let you down.

There is no main/sub-venue distinction in the conference. The speech venue is only divided by Left/Right Curve, and there are countless Spot flash speeches scattered in the venue. Each project keynote session is only five minutes, no nonsense, all the highlights are refined.

The audience of each speech was almost full, especially the @jump_firedancer speech session, the audience was full for two days and overflowed to the door. Since @jump_ brought this epoch-making third-party validator client product to the public at the end of 2022, its innovation and iteration every year have become the focus of the community's attention. Especially yesterday, Firedancer v0 went online on the mainnet, and a million-dollar bug bounty program was launched to help review and optimize. Its launch can greatly improve Solana's previous risk of frequent downtime accidents, and help Solana accelerate its development into a high-performance global transaction public chain.

There are many impressive projects, including @metaplex, a digital asset protocol product that is increasingly valued and has perhaps the sexiest narrative on Sol; @DriftProtocol, which has been publicly bullished by @multicoincap many times and has just received Series B financing; @SonicSVM, whose blue rocket logo is conspicuous everywhere in the venue and whose nodes are selling well; @bonk_inu, a viral memecoin that is good at making fun of its peripherals at every exhibition; @EclipseFND, which will be launched on the mainnet at the end of the month; @circle, an AI agent stablecoin issuer co-launched by Solana; @Perena__, an Infra service stablecoin launched by @gizmothegizzer, who started out of Solana Fndn PayFi department; @JamboTechnology, which has just launched the second-generation Web3 mobile phone, etc…

The booth receptionists for each project are basically the team developers/product managers, who are super friendly and happy to share the project background and results with you.

Jumping around freely in the venue with potato chips and drinks in hand was like being in a theme park. Everyone was very friendly and would start a conversation with you. You could high five with people by raising your hand, and chat while jumping or sitting on the ground. I met Tom, who was the same age as me, and he shared with me the four projects he had built in the past seven years, as well as the fifth project he was working on, which was the first mini game project on Tg that could skip $TON and use Sol tokens for payment. I asked if it was a pity that the users of the past projects could not be retained or migrated and were wasted, and he said it didn’t matter, everything was for experience.

A product manager of a game developer at a certain booth told me frankly that as a gamer himself, he would not be addicted to playing GameFi games. For a product to become popular, it must either have more gambling addiction mechanisms embedded in it, or be like StepN, which does not waste extra time and energy and can achieve multiple goals at one stroke. It is not easy to influence the usage habits of adults, but GameFi can find new sources of vitality by influencing the new generation of GenZ. As far as he has been in the circle for many years, he has experienced many ups and downs from getting rich to going bankrupt. The FTX crash took away all his money, but he is still optimistic about the Solana chain and is willing to stay and build it.

I met a technical expert who started coding at the age of 13. Tech-driven, he believes that Solana is the most promising and dynamic, and is also working on a project for SUI, a move language department. There is a 24-year-old memecoins whale who only entered the circle in December last year. He made a lot of money from $Bome and $Lockin, and also came to the conference to see if there are the same memecoins chads.

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As @calilyliu said, the beauty of Solana lies in the collisions between all kinds of different people: "Solana is for everyone. Solana is you." It is these different scattered consensus forces that have come together to form today's Solana community, and innovative products have been produced through repeated resonance and communication. Its appeal is so strong that you can’t imagine it:

1. The person in charge of a public chain apac said that he was inspired by the scale of the Breakpoint venue and the cohesive vibe. He also wanted to make a proposal feedback to the treasury to apply for a budget. He hoped to follow Solana’s lead in marketing so that his future summits/hackathons could have such an influence.

2. In the @SuiNetwork builder house event, team members shared with me that they didn’t mind being called a “Solana killer”. They also listened to many community members’ opinions. In addition to polishing the technology, they also wanted to do more marketing like Solana to let more people know about Sui’s ecological culture. This includes the first global hackathon “Overflow” this year and the Sui Tropical Week currently being held in Bali. Sui has received many favorable news in the past year. As the leader of the Move twins, if it can combine hard technology with marketing, it will have a positive effect on the entire ecosystem and industry. We all have this confidence.

Back to the saying, the financial market is a weighing machine in the long run. I believe that good money will eventually drive out bad money. The combination of hard-core technical background + strong marketing capabilities will give the community members of the entire ecosystem a solid confidence.

To quote @metaplex founder @meta_hess when he announced the new product Aura Network, I was impressed by his words: "After FTX collapsed, it's a test of will and conviction for all."

Luckily we survived through all those tough times and packed with full passion to start a far more exciting journey.

And for me personally, there's never been a better time to stand with Solana.

The best blockchain conference ever. Luckily I find my healing hometown here.Shout out to @solana@SolanaFndn@Solana_zh again. See yall #Breakpoint2025 at Abu Dahbi.

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