Solana Activates Alpenglow Upgrade: What It Means for SOL

Solana price pulled back on Monday after facing rejection near the key $100 psychological level, though traders continue watching a potentially bullish moving average crossover that could support another upside attempt. According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) traded around…

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The post Bitcoin rally stalls ahead of U.S. inflation report as XRP, SOL prices hit resistance: Crypto Daily appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter ‘Daybook.’ Sign up here, if you haven’t already. Bitcoin’s BTC$80,621.04 rally stalled in the $80,000–$82,000 range, where it has largely traded since last Wednesday. While fund flows continue to point toward an eventual breakout, macro risks, particularly inflation, suggest caution. The U.S. is scheduled to report its consumer price index (CPI) for April at 8:30 a.m. ET. According to FactSet, the median estimate is 3.7%, up from 3.3% in March. If that proves correct, it would mark the largest increase in the CPI since January 2024 and be well above the trailing 12-month average of 2.7%. Analysts are worried that such a reading, especially against the backdrop of what President Donald Trump described as an “unbelievably weak” U.S.-Iran ceasefire and still-elevated oil prices, could trigger risk aver

The post Solana News: Alpenglow Upgrade Activates for Live Validator Testing appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade entered community validator testing on May 11, with development firm Anza describing the activation as the largest consensus change in the network’s history, targeting block confirmation times of approximately 150 milliseconds and potentially as low as 100 milliseconds under favorable network conditions. This is huge news for Solana. The upgrade replaces TowerBFT and removes Proof of History from the network’s core process, a structural change significant enough that its success or failure will materially define Solana’s competitive position among high-throughput Layer-1 networks through the remainder of 2026. SOL traded near $97 following the announcement, with an intraday range between $94 and $98, suggesting a limited short-term market reaction to a development that remains well upstream of mainnet. The testing phase places Alpenglow on a commu

The post JUST (JST) Holds $0.0889 as DeFi Sector Tracks $3 Billion Circle Arc Launch and Solana Alpenglow Upgrade appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. JUST News Circle is positioning itself as more than a stablecoin issuer with the upcoming launch of Arc, a purpose-built blockchain valued at roughly $3 billion following a $222 million token presale. The round drew capital from a16z crypto, Apollo, BlackRock and ARK Invest, and shares of the USDC issuer climbed more than 15% on the announcement day. CEO Jeremy Allaire pitched Arc as an institutional-grade rail for tokenized finance and payments, designed to be operated by regulated financial firms. The development is closely watched across the DeFi landscape, where stablecoin infrastructure plays a central role in liquidity flows on networks like Tron, where JST operates. OpenAI has unveiled the OpenAI Deployment Company, a majority-owned subsidiary aimed at embedding specialized engineers inside enterprises running complex AI projects.

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Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade entered community validator testing as Anza targets faster finality and a future mainnet rollout.

Solana’s AI narrative is gaining fresh support from crypto investors who argue that SOL may be positioned as a core financial infrastructure asset in an agent-driven economy. Parker White, COO of DeFiDevCorp, and Delphi Ventures founding partner Tom Shaughnessy both pointed to Solana’s speed, liquidity and developer ecosystem as reasons the market may be underpricing the asset. Solana’s AI Thesis Is Heating Up White, known on X as @TheOtherParker_, said on May 9 that he remains bullish on SOL because Solana combines “s-tier technology, user adoption, and liquidity.” He pushed back on the common argument that Ethereum’s larger DeFi liquidity and TVL base gives it an unassailable lead, arguing that the comparison looks different once traditional finance enters the market. “Some people will counter with ‘Yes, but ETH has such a huge DeFi liquidity/TVL lead.’ Huge is relative though and compared to TradFi liquidity, all DeFi liquidity is a drop in the bucket,” White wrote. “So when TradFi