Colosseum Codex: Accelerate Miami, Contra, Anza 2026 Roadmap

Here's what's featured in this week's issue:

• Solana Accelerate is coming back to America
• Solana Foundation Launches Contra Private Execution Infrastructure for ICM
• Anza Hosts a Space on its 2026 Roadmap
• Halborn Announces the Solana Security Token Standard
  

🏖️ Accelerate Miami

Solana Accelerate is coming to the USA on May 5, 2026 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and this year it is explicitly framed as a curated, highly selective gathering with limited capacity and selective admission of serious builders, operators, and capital, rather than a broad conference play. 

Miami’s ability to meet this moment comes down to two strengths:

• Regulatory and policy openness: State and city leaders are courting crypto, capital markets, and founder led innovation.
• A distinct capital and talent flywheel: International wealth, US institutional capital, and global operators are all concentrating in Miami

The focus is on showcasing how Solana’s speed and low cost onchain infrastructure can underpin ICM.

Accelerate will run alongside Consensus and is meant to spotlight the strongest founders, applications, and assets in the Solana ecosystem.

Solana Accelerate USA

🏦 Contra

Contra is Solana Foundation’s new enterprise payment channel stack for internet capital markets that gives institutions a way to execute large volumes of private, permissioned transactions while still tapping public liquidity on Solana. 

Under the hood, Contra works as a private transaction channel backed by SPL tokens held in an onchain escrow program. Institutions deposit into the Contra Escrow Program, transact inside the Contra Channel using their own access controls and compliance rules, and then exit through a Withdrawal Program that burns channel balances and releases the underlying mainnet tokens. 

An indexer and operator service watches deposits and withdrawals, syncs state, and maintains an auditable record of all activity for reporting and oversight.

The idea is “public liquidity, private execution” for use cases like banks issuing tokenized deposits or fund managers launching RWA products, where operational sovereignty, privacy, and control are non-negotiable but assets still need to live onchain.

Contra - Private execution infrastructure for Solana

🛣️ Anza 2026 Roadmap

Anza’s 2026 roadmap Spaces wasa walk through how Solana gets to “next tier” performance while improving censorship resistance and the builder experience. 

Brennan Watt, Anza’s new CEO shared the results of the 2025 groundwork like hardening the Agave validator client, keeping slot times under 400ms, early Alpenglow testing, and a series of networking and scheduler improvements that stabilized the base layer.

Most of the discussion centered on Alpenglow and MCP. 

Alpenglow is the planned consensus overhaul that replaces TowerBFT with tighter timing and BLS signatures, with a target of sub-150ms finality and up to 1M TPS under ideal conditions.

MCP (Multiple Concurrent Proposals) shifts Solana away from a single leader model toward multiple concurrent proposers, which should materially improve censorship resistance and give traders deterministic, fee-based ordering rules.

The roadmap also includes lower rent for long-term storage, larger transactions, p-ATA, higher Agave send limits, clearer block revenue distribution, and safer scheduler experimentation.

 The throughline from the Space was that Anza is thinking in terms of many small, compounding improvements, with Alpenglow and MCP as the big architectural pieces that position Solana for scale.

Anza 2026 Roadmap with Brennan Watt and Max Resnick

🔒 Security Token Standard

Halborn has released the Solana Security Token Standard (SSTS), a new standard for issuing and managing regulated assets onchain. 

SSTS is built on SPL Token 2022 with extensions and is designed to support compliant security tokens such as stocks and bonds, with built in tools for KYC/AML, configurable verification, and corporate action support. 

The key idea is to separate verification from token operations. Policy checks are handled by external, configurable verification programs, while a standardized SSTS program executes core token actions like mint, burn, transfer, freeze, and pause once verification passes. 

On top of that, SSTS introduces primitives for corporate actions such as splits, conversions, and Merkle based distributions, along with standardized account types that make these workflows auditable and easier to integrate. 

SSTS gives teams an extensible framework for security tokens so they do not have to rebuild the same compliance and corporate action logic from scratch.

Introducing SSTS: A Security Token Standard Built for Solana

⚡ Quick Hits

The era of opinionated L1s is here and Solana will win it on mobile - @alemartcard

6 Innovations That Make MagicBlock the Real-Time Engine for Solana - @magicblock

ORE v2 Mining on Solana and How to Get Started - Quicknode

Solana Technical Weekly 9 - @readylayerone

Pump.fun API: Complete Developer Guide to Token Creation & Trading on Solana - pumpdevio

Bringing OpenZeppelin Monitor to Solana - SwissBorg

Deep dive into the sBPF linker talk from Breakpoint 2025 - Blueshift

⚙️ Tools & Resources

kit-plugins is a modular plugin library for Solana Kit that provides ready-to-use clients for Solana applications.

solana-wingman is a comprehensive Solana development tutor and guide built as an Agent Skill to teach program development through Solana-native challenges, Anchor framework, and security best practices.

SolVoid is a high-performance privacy protocol that provides a decentralized identity-abstraction layer on the Solana blockchain using Groth16 ZK SNARKs and Poseidon-3 Hashing.

create-codama-clients is a zero config, zero installation tool that makes TypeScript clients from your Solana program IDLs.

bundles-ui is a Next.js application for creating and minting token-backed Solana NFTs using Metaplex Core that enables creators to define bundle schemas (sets of Solana tokens) and allows users to mint Core NFTs that automatically hold those tokens.

💀 RIP

GooseFX is shutting down after concluding its models were not scalable or financially sustainable in the current market structure. The team is beginning an immediate wind down and users should withdraw any remaining deposits from GAMMA within the next 30 days before the program is fully deprecated.

👩‍🔧 Get Hired

• Solana Foundation is hiring a Lead Solutions Architect
• MarginFi is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
• Jito is hiring a Head of Product - Mobile
• Solflare is hiring a Backend Developer

🎧 Listen to This

Validated

In this episode, Austin talks with Anthony, Executive Director of Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission, about how Wyoming became the first U.S. state to issue its own government-backed stablecoin.

They discuss the state’s decade-long push into crypto policy, why Wyoming chose to operate digital financial infrastructure instead of just regulating it, and how the Frontier Stable Token is designed to be fully backed, legally neutral, and usable for any lawful purpose.

The conversation covers constitutional safeguards around privacy and due process, how reserves generate public revenue, and why a small, agile state may be uniquely positioned to experiment with on-chain money, offering a glimpse into what the future of state finance could look like.

How Wyoming Built the First State-Issued Stablecoin w/ Anthony Apollo

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