This Week in Solana April 7-13th 2025
This week was another interesting one in the markets as tariff concerns upped the fear and greed index to 3 to Extreme Fear. There was a brief pump on weds, when Trump delayed some tariffs, while ramping up on China even more. Markets bounced up around 10% on Weds, only to lose some of the gains the following day. Overall, we are up for the week by over 6% on the total crypto market cap
Pump.fun has re-launched live streaming to all users months after yanking the feature due to chaotic, unsupervised streams — some featuring threats of self-harm if token prices didn't moon. This time, the rollout includes formal moderation guidelines, a case-by-case content policy, and a public appeals process
Solana is focusing on increasing block sizes. A 4% increase in block size is now live on Solana, with a feature gate in v2.2.7 to jump to a 25% increase
Kamino has decided to increase the amount of leverage you can take on their multiply vaults, allowing for 50% more leverage (an increase from 5x to 7.5x max leverage). Check out their article to read about the risks involved.
Huma Finance (@humafinance) could be one of the next big airdrops and you can swap for PSTUSDC (that’s a mouthful) which stays in your wallet for 10% APY on USDC with a 3 month lock up. Use our referral code to get bonuses!
https://app.huma.finance/?ref=tzCOTf
7 Stable coins on Solana now have over $100 million onchain. The stablecoin market has surged 733% from $1.5 billion in December 2024 to $12.5 billion by April 2025
1. $USDC: $9,483,570,133
2. $USDT: $2,330,095,748
3. $USDY: $175,960,682
4. $PYUSD: $130,801,475
5. $USDS: $117,717,101
6. $FDUSD: $103,727,549
7. $USDG: $103,572,268
Magic Eden (@MagicEden) acquired @SlingshotCrypto and now allows swapping of 8M+ tokens. Every chain (Bitcoin soon). No bridges. No CEXs. Their vision is to provide the best platform to trade all assets, on all chains.
MarginFi (@marginfi) has been allowing you to borrow against your native/vanilla staked SOL for a while and has now increased the borrow cap to 90% of the value of your native staked SOL as collateral.
Solana Devs (@solana_devs) announced Confidential Balance Token Extensions with (@m0foundation), which are now live on Solana mainnet — the first ZK-powered encrypted token standard built for institutional compliance without sacrificing sub-second finality.
Loopscale (@LoopscaleLabs) went live to everyone after 6 months in beta. They are bringing in modular, order book based lending and backed by CoinFund, Solana Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Jump, and Room40. They offer fixed-rate, fixed-term loans and support complex assets like LP tokens, liquid- and native-staked SOL, and cross-protocol positions. And as their name implies, they offer advanced looping strategies with a single click, similar to Kamino Multiply.
ASR rewards are claimable from Jup Dao (@jup_dao). You can claim at https://vote.jup.ag/
Kast (@KAST_official), a popular Crypto Debit card on Solana (https://www.kast.xyz/solana), is working on a universal stablecoin platform, which may make spending stables even easier from your KAST card. KAST Dollar will be issued in two variants: one optimized for savings and another tailored for seamless payments. Both stablecoins will launch exclusively on the Solana blockchain in the coming months, in partnership with M^0 (@m0foundation) who were in the news a lot this week. Kast has also recently opened up to the US markets back in the end of March.
You can go vote for @Claynosaurz for the @TheWebbyAwards now! Support fellow @solana companies. Currently in 1st place, but help bring it home. https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/video-film/general-video-film/trailer
BTC/SOL/ETH Price on the week
Sol - Up 26%
Eth - Up 3.6%
BTC - Up 8.4%
Total Crypto Market Cap - Up 6.3% to 2.58T
Stable Coin yields
