Solana

Card Collectors have spent a record $324.6 million on on-chain gacha in June alone, a fourth straight monthly record, while Bitcoin has been on a 21-month low of roughly $58,000. The excitement of owning a top Pokemon card from random packs is currently a huge wave roll at the moment.

A payment system jointly launched by the Solana Foundation and Google Cloud on May 5, 2026. The platform allows autonomous software to discover APIs, access them and pay per request in stable coins without assistance or involvement from humans.

An attacker drained $285 million from Drift Protocol, the Solana-based perpetual futures exchange, collapsing its total value locked from over $550 million to roughly $24 million within hours. The DRIFT token dropped more than 20% in the immediate aftermath.