- **Solana Foundation launched an institutional Trading Program with white-glove onboarding for professional firms. **
- Huma Finance reported PayFi transactions surpassed $10 billion; Superteam Earn said total user earnings reached $10 million.
Solana posted a weekly roundup of product releases and ecosystem updates that connected institutional trading, autonomous AI agents, and onchain finance. The network’s official account framed the activity as a shared lane for TradFi workflows and agent-driven execution.
The Solana Foundation announced an institutional Trading Program designed for professional firms. The program includes white-glove onboarding and a structured path to access trading services. As we reported, the trading program targets institutions that want operational support while moving activity onchain.
Arcium released Mainnet Alpha, adding private compute tooling to the ecosystem. The launch supported new use cases that combine encrypted data handling with blockchain settlement. It also enabled projects to build prediction and market products that require privacy features.
Also, the network partnered with Colosseum on an Agent Hackathon with $100,000 in prizes. The event invited teams building agent frameworks, agent wallets, and autonomous execution tools. It added a public runway for projects focused on DAO operations, trading automation, and token deployment.
TradFi and AI agents just found common ground. It’s Solana.
A white-glove trading program for institutions went live. Agents started managing DAOs, funding their own keys, and deploying tokens via X.
Here’s what happened over the week:
📰 Headline News
– @SolanaFndn unveiled… pic.twitter.com/92gNmmeeRx
— Solana (@solana) February 8, 2026
AI agent tooling moved from prototypes to shipping products and integrations. Bankrbot introduced token deployment via Raydium using X tags. BagsApp released agentic authentication for autonomous wallet actions. Realms DAOs added features to allow agents to manage DAO workflows.
Solana Midweek Launches and Market Infrastructure
Meanwhile, Solana Mobile announced a second hackathon with a prize pool above $125,000. Also, a House of Sol members club opened in London to host builders and institutions.
Flash Trade, an asset-backed perpetual futures trading platform, added inverse forex pairs, starting with the Japanese yen (USDJPY) and Chinese yuan (USDCNH). The new pairs have up to 500x leverage, zero slippage, and are instantly executed.
Forex trading just entered a new era ⚡️
Flash brings the FIRST inverse forex pairs on @solana:
🇯🇵 Japanese Yen $USDJPY
🇨🇳 Chinese Yuan $USDCNH
Up to 500x leverage. No slippage. Instant execution.
Trade the world’s biggest currencies. All onchain 💹 pic.twitter.com/GUtfCIRgjy
— Flash.Trade | Perps on Solana (@FlashTrade) February 2, 2026
Several teams shipped identity, custody, and developer tools. DFlow released DFlow Proof for onchain identity verification. Helius enabled agents to generate and fund API keys through a CLI flow, while the Solana developer portal upgraded official documentation to be LLM-ready for faster agent coding.
Distribution was also increased by protocol and platform updates. Pump.fun purchased the TradeonVyper trading terminal, and Lotrydotfun affirmed that it plans to move to Solana. Tessera PE will launch a tokenized PE product later this month, and PreStocks will provide Polymarket integration to provide 1:1 synthetic exposure to equity.
New metrics also came up during the week. According to Huma Finance, PayFi transactions had exceeded 10 billion, and Superteam Earn generated $10 million in total user earnings. X402 added that Solana accounted for 80% of its weekly transaction volume, and Raise Network said monthly onchain volume passed $11 million.
However, SOL price was down 4.27% in the past 24 hours, trading at $83.6, with $3.57 billion in trading volume and a $47.66 billion market cap.
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