At the Shanghai Blockchain Week Summit on October 23, 2025, Solana Foundation Chair Lily Liu highlighted the platform's rapid expansion, with over 2,000 applications now active within its ecosystem. Liu emphasized Solana's status as the fastest-growing blockchain platform, driven by active participation from developers and enterprises, particularly in stablecoin applications. Liu noted Solana's strategic focus on the Chinese-speaking market, where it leads in payment ecosystems, and its pursuit of collaborations in payments, Deepin, and AI sectors. She compared Solana's impact to that of Netflix in entertainment and Amazon in e-commerce, noting that Solana achieved a market valuation of $10 billion in just four and a half years, outpacing Apple's 30-year and Google's 8-year timelines. Liu stated that Solana aims to become the future financial infrastructure, akin to Bitcoin's role as "digital gold."