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Solana, in context.

A network where transactions carry instructions for programs to execute. Transaction outcomes are a useful starting point for reading application claims.

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What is changing across crypto

Scheduled updates

Official project announcements, software releases and crypto-related US regulatory documents. Browse 13 topics, updated automatically with links to the original sources.

Across all tracked sources

482Records · 180 days
28Records · last 7 days
4US regulatory documents
29/29Sources with a successful fetch

Latest successful source check: 16 Sep 2026, 18:30 UTC. Individual source status is shown below.

Browse the latest records

Topic counts use your project, record type and time window. Topics are inferred from headlines, not verified event outcomes. A record may have several topics. Zero means no matching record in our monitored sample.

10 matching records · Page 1 of 1

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.3.0-rc.1

The Agave repository published version v4.3.0-rc.1. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.3.0-rc.0

The Agave repository published version v4.3.0-rc.0. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.2.2

The Agave repository published version v4.2.2. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.2.1

The Agave repository published version v4.2.1. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.2.0

The Agave repository published version v4.2.0. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.2.0-rc.1

The Agave repository published version v4.2.0-rc.1. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.2.0-rc.0

The Agave repository published version v4.2.0-rc.0. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.1.2

The Agave repository published version v4.1.2. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.1.1

The Agave repository published version v4.1.1. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Solana / Published release

Agave v4.1.0

The Agave repository published version v4.1.0. This records a software release; it does not establish a network upgrade or adoption.

Release

Agave · View source · Observed 16 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC

Sources, update status and coverage

Up to 100 recent entries per source are checked each cycle; some publisher feeds provide fewer. Announcement topics are assigned automatically from explicit headline terms, not confirmed event outcomes. Dates on record cards are publication dates, not event dates. Releases marked as drafts or prereleases are excluded. Regulatory results require a crypto-related headline. Coverage is selective and bounded, not a complete record of network changes.

SourceLast successful check (UTC)Status
Java-Tron16 Sep 18:30Current
Bitcoin Core16 Sep 17:09Current
Geth16 Sep 17:09Current · 100-entry sample
Erigon16 Sep 17:09Current · 100-entry sample
Nethermind16 Sep 17:09Current · 100-entry sample
Lighthouse16 Sep 17:15Current · 100-entry sample
Prysm16 Sep 17:15Current · 100-entry sample
Agave16 Sep 17:15Current · 100-entry sample
AvalancheGo16 Sep 17:15Current · 100-entry sample
Chainlink16 Sep 17:23Current · 100-entry sample
Cosmos SDK16 Sep 17:23Current · 100-entry sample
BSC16 Sep 17:23Current · 100-entry sample
Optimism16 Sep 17:23Current · 100-entry sample
Nitro16 Sep 17:30Current · 100-entry sample
Sui16 Sep 17:30Current · 100-entry sample
Aptos Core16 Sep 17:30Current · 100-entry sample
Cardano Node16 Sep 17:30Current · 100-entry sample
Polkadot SDK16 Sep 17:39Current · 100-entry sample
Stellar Core16 Sep 17:39Current · 100-entry sample
rippled16 Sep 17:39Current · 100-entry sample
nearcore16 Sep 17:39Current · 100-entry sample
Federal Register16 Sep 11:11Current
Lido blog16 Sep 17:45Current
Ethereum Foundation blog16 Sep 17:45Current · 100-entry sample
Arbitrum blog16 Sep 17:45Current
Sui blog16 Sep 17:45Current · 100-entry sample
Stellar blog16 Sep 17:53Current
Celestia blog16 Sep 17:53Current
Bybit announcements16 Sep 17:53Current · 100-entry sample

Releases and publisher feeds are checked approximately every six hours and US regulatory documents every twelve hours. The worker processes up to four due sources every fifteen minutes, so a full queue can add around two hours. Limits or outages delay updates; the last successful records remain visible. Source removal cannot be inferred from absence in a recent sample. No CoinMarketCal records are used here.

The essentials

What the network does

On Solana, a transaction can contain several instructions. They execute together: if an instruction fails, the transaction's state changes are reverted. Fees can still be charged for a failed transaction. That distinction matters when interpreting activity, because attempts and successful application interactions describe different things.

Solana documentation: transactions · Source checked 2026-09-16

Native asset
SOL
Transaction model
One or more instructions
Failure handling
State changes revert; fees may apply

A reader’s checklist

Three questions to ask of the next headline

  1. Does an activity figure count submitted transactions or successful interactions?
  2. Which program or application produced the activity being discussed?
  3. Can the announcement be tied to a release, documentation, or a working product?

Our reading approach: ask what an activity measure includes before comparing two headlines. A large count becomes more useful when its unit, time window and treatment of failures are clear.

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How we put this together

The activity monitor publishes validated source metadata automatically using factual templates, without an AI API. The project guides below combine original explanations with linked primary sources. The first edition was researched and drafted with AI assistance, including source checks; it is not presented as an independently human-reviewed report. The monitor distinguishes a published software release from a protocol activation and a regulatory document from a rule already in force.

The monitor displays source checks, publication dates and coverage limits. Past deadlines leave the upcoming section automatically. Project explainers are dated reference material, separate from the automatically refreshed records. Report a correction.

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