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Week in Solana News: February 11th - 17th, 2024

By SolanaNews.org — Feb 17, 2024

Welcome to the twelvth edition of Week in Solana News.

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Solana is utilizing Filecoin to make its block history more accessible and usable for infrastructure providers, explorers, indexers, and anyone needing historical access.
Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Solana Labs focused on smartphone technology, has successfully processed more than $20 million in USDC transactions.
Solana Mobile Snapshot 2 for the Chapter 2 Leaderboard will be taken on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, at 7 PM UTC.
Solana Mobile Chapter 2 phone has received 100,000 pre-orders.
Backpack, and their Solana-based crypto exchange, reached the $300 million mark in less than 24 hours after the beginning of its pre-season beta launch.
Phantom, a Solana wallet, can now be utilized to access major products such as the Injective Hub alongside popular dApps on Injective such as Helix and Mito Finance.
Streaming Fast, a blockchain data processor, has created several tutorials showcasing how easy it is to develop Solana Substreams.
Unibot, a trading platform, unveils its Unibolt private access giving users an edge against other traders with its lightning-fast swaps feature.

Solana Sniper, Solana’s NFT marketplace, announced that Token2022 NFTs are now fully supported and tradable on its system.
Zeta Markets enables deposits from 9 blockchains directly into Zeta on Solana.
Aurory, a Solana role-playing and monster-battling game, has launched its Seekers of Tokane experience to the public on the Epic Games Store after previously restricting access to NFT holders and access code recipients.
Injective, a blockchain platform for finance, has announced the launching of the 1st ever omnichain domain name service that enhances the user experience across Solana & Injective with Bonfida.
GMO-Z, the world's first regulated JPY-pegged stablecoin issuer, announced that its users can now seamlessly purchase, swap, or redeem Solana GYEN and Solana ZUSD via its platform.

U.S. Congressman French Hill says "bad actors still prefer to use traditional finance rather than digital assets.”