The Solana Accelerate conference in New York City featured major ecosystem updates, including the launch of WalletConnect's WCT token on Solana and an airdrop of 5 million WCT tokens to active Solana users. The WCT token, which supports staking and governance for WalletConnect, is expanding as a multichain asset, with further integrations planned. WalletConnect is partnering with Phantom, Backpack, Solflare, and Jupiter for the WCT airdrop and integration, powered by Wormhole NTT. This move is intended to increase cross-chain functionality within the Solana ecosystem. The event also introduced the Alpenglow consensus protocol by Anza, which reportedly increases Solana's network speed by 100 times. Other developments included Kraken's partnership to tokenize stocks on Solana, Drift's collaboration with Securitize for real-world asset tokenization, and the upcoming Jupiter Lend platform. Additional announcements from the conference, as reported by Solana community sources, included Solana Mobile's $SKR asset and TEEPIN architecture, the Solana Mobile Hackathon scheduled for June, Kraken xStocks for non-US clients, Centrifuge deRWA integration, Ondo Global Markets launch, Ledger Flex Solana Edition, R3-Solana permissioned consensus, Solana's first physical art gallery, Doodles DreamNet launch, Vana VRC-20 Data Tokens, SOL Strategies stock onchain, GEODNET GEO-PULSE app, and DoubleZero mainnet beta. Former CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo predicted that within 10 years, all significant securities, debt, and equity offerings will be tokenized and recorded on-chain. SkyBridge Capital CEO Anthony Scaramucci stated that Solana will serve as the principal operating layer for tokenization of real-world assets, stocks, and bonds. Chainlink was also highlighted for securing over 68% of oracle total value locked (TVL) and being adopted by Solana DeFi projects such as Kamino and Jupiter.