Solana is growing. Though price wise it has yet to crack the 1000 USD mark. But the way Ethereum was growing in it's early stages, Solana is growing more than that and competing with current status of the Ethereum. And in short things are slowly and steadily being developed. 

Here are some of the news to explore for Solana this week. 

Western Union the company which connects developed nations with poor for the money transfer is making use of the Solana to build it's internal USDPT coin which would make the mobile and the internet based funds transfer across their branches. 

PrintR another company similar to coinfactory which allows users to publish their tokens on any chain is now coming to Solana. More like it is already launched and you can use them for creating your tokens on Solana. This is a good news for the developers. 

coinrepublic and coinlist both are being used by the Bytedance to launch their rrttok token. Which is token from the makers of the tiktok. 

It seems Solana is on the flying start with variety of Projects which even Ethereum ecosystem would be struggling to get in the motion. And the developers are using Solana chain for the development long term. So it's worth exploring the chain on that context. You can check it out here.