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Stablecoin Regulation and Yield Risk GENIUS Act and Interest-Bearing Stablecoins: Yield Rules, Risks, and Loopholes The GENIUS Act draws an important line between a regulated payment stablecoin and the yield products that can be built around stablecoins. Section 4(a)(11) of the enacted law says that a permitted payment stablecoin issuer or foreign payment stablecoin issuer

Solana Token Infrastructure and Compute Efficiency Solana P-Token Explained: 95%-98% More Efficient Token Operations Without a New Token Solana P-Token is a compute-optimized reimplementation of the original SPL Token Program introduced through SIMD-0266 and activated on Solana mainnet in 2026. It is not a new cryptocurrency, a replacement mint, a new wallet asset, or a

Solana Transaction Economics and Fee Design Solana Resource and Inclusion Fees: How SIMD-0553 Changes Transaction Costs The Solana resource fee proposed by SIMD-0553 would replace part of Solana’s flat per-signature base-fee model with a fee tied to the resources a transaction requests before execution. Under the design, a transaction would pay a flat 2,500-lamport base

Solana Validator Infrastructure and Network Resilience Firedancer vs Agave: Why Solana’s Second Validator Client Changes Network Risk Firedancer Solana development changes the network’s risk model because a blockchain secured by several genuinely independent validator implementations is less exposed to one shared software failure than a blockchain where nearly all stake executes the same client code.

Solana Consensus and Network Infrastructure Solana Alpenglow Upgrade: 150ms Confirmations, Votor, Alpenswitch, and User Impact Solana Alpenglow is the network’s planned consensus overhaul, replacing the TowerBFT voting model with Votor and targeting roughly 150 millisecond consensus finality under favorable conditions. That number needs to be interpreted carefully. Solana’s official upgrade material describes 150ms as a