Faster settlement across the three largest public blockchains has become a practical bottleneck for traders and builders, and that pressure has kept early-stage fundraising active even as listed tokens digested a crowded week in Washington and on Solana's mainnet. Among the presales drawing interest are projects that treat Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana as a single market rather than three isolated ledgers.

Solana has just given developers more room inside a single transaction, opening the door to more advanced operations and high-speed execution. US lawmakers, meanwhile, have left federal market-structure rules unresolved after a narrow Senate vote led to a procedural setback for the Clarity Act. Even so, Web3 builders have not paused their work, and corporate treasuries have continued adding Solana. That mix of technical progress and institutional allocation has supported the case that infrastructure tokens can still attract capital before they list.

Presale campaigns with a clearly defined product and an immediate staking route have kept filling because buyers want access before exchange trading begins. LiquidChain (LIQUID) is building a Layer 3 that unifies Bitcoin's capital, Ethereum's DeFi depth, and Solana's speed in one execution layer — and that, presented alongside a live raise closing in on $1 million, has put the project among the presales tied to Solana's next growth phase.

Larger Solana Transactions Go Live as Washington Stalls on the Clarity Act

Solana's Transaction V1 format went live earlier this week, lifting the maximum size of a single transaction from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes. Although the change does not increase throughput on its own, it gives developers room to pack multi-step trades, company-wallet approvals, and privacy proofs into a single atomic operation instead of splitting the work across several transactions that can each fail independently. For a network already known for speed and low fees, the extra payload is a practical upgrade for complex DeFi and cross-chain flows.

The policy side of the week was rockier. Crypto bears made themselves known after the US Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act during a procedural vote on Tuesday, and the market briefly dipped in response. Analysts have since described the result as political rather than a structural break for digital assets, pointing instead to the FOMC's interest rate hike and the broader monetary policy path as the crypto market's main price drivers.

Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong has said that clearer rules can still arrive through SEC and CFTC rulemaking even as the Clarity Act remains in limbo — a route that would not require new legislation. Separately, the House Financial Services Committee has advanced a bill that would codify the existing US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and lock the government-held coins for 20 years.

Institutional activity on Solana has also continued. Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp. has expanded its Solana treasury and established a large preferred-stock facility to buy more of the asset.

On the charts, analyst Trader Tardigrade recently published a Solana price analysis arguing that SOL could progress from a potential "base" stage into an "expansion" phase over the next few months. According to that view, SOL could see new all-time highs by the middle of next year.

$SOL /weekly — Expansion Phase #Solana came down from a downtrend and reached the base. The 100 SMA and 150 SMA converged and are now forming a crossover. Base formation complete SMA crossover forming Historical pattern: crossover = expansion This exact pattern… pic.twitter.com/KgFaBDhLfr — Trader Tardigrade (@TATrader_Alan) September 17, 2026

That technical read has added to the sense that Solana's next move could eclipse macro narratives and near-term trends — a scenario in which projects that sit above Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, rather than competing with them, would stand to benefit.

LiquidChain Builds a Layer 3 for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana

LiquidChain (LIQUID) is a Layer 3 execution layer that brings Bitcoin's capital base, Ethereum's DeFi activity, and Solana's throughput onto one network. Assets from those three chains are verifiably represented on the Layer 3, creating unified liquidity pools without wrapped tokens — so depth sits in one place rather than in bridged copies spread across separate venues. Developers can deploy once and reach users across all three networks — a key consideration for anyone building dApps, prediction markets, and other on-chain products that currently fragment across isolated ledgers.

The quill knows what comes after L2. pic.twitter.com/BSumZRCBFg — LiquidChain (@getliquidchain) September 17, 2026

The L3's architecture pairs a high-performance, Solana-class virtual machine with trust-minimized state verification. Cross-chain proofs and messaging check Bitcoin UTXOs, Ethereum states, and Solana accounts so that settlement can complete atomically. According to the project, the result is deeper pooled liquidity and faster execution than hopping through bridges — a contrast that carries weight, given that exploits against cross-chain bridges have repeatedly ranked among the industry's costliest security failures. Solana's new, larger transaction format is a direct fit for that model, because proof verification and multi-leg routing can now live inside a single operation.

LIQUID is the LiquidChain L3's native token. It will be the only way to pay for gas and support staking, and it will be used for governance and access to Layer 3 features. Total supply is fixed at 11,800,000,100 tokens. Allocations send 35% to development, 32.5% to LiquidLabs, 15% to AquaVault for business development and community programs, 10% to rewards, and 7.5% to growth and exchange listings.

Tokens will be claimable on Ethereum when the claim window opens, with exchange listings planned after the presale. Those mechanics have been enough to keep the sale campaign moving even while listed majors digested this week's Senate vote and Solana's upgrade.

LIQUID Nears $1 Million in Presale Funding With High Staking Rewards

The live LiquidChain sale is in a late stage, with LIQUID priced at $0.014956. Fundraising recently surpassed $965,000 and is quickly closing in on the $1 million mark, with the current stage targeting $1.08 million. Buyers who stake at purchase are earning a 1,181% APY.

In a week when listed tokens had to absorb policy setbacks and a major Solana upgrade, early infrastructure sales have continued to draw capital. The near-term calendar from here is mechanical: the opening of the Ethereum claim window, followed by the exchange listings planned after the presale. If the Layer 3 delivers unified liquidity pools and atomic settlement as designed, LIQUID would become the gas and participation token for a completely new market connected to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana at once.

Based on a press release published on ICO Bench