The Solana Accelerate event in Shanghai has been postponed. Lily Liu, president of the Solana Foundation, said pre-registrations went past the attendance limit that organizers had registered with local authorities. Cointelegraph reported the news on Oct 16, 2026.
Liu said the number of registrations quadrupled overnight. That jump pushed sign-ups over the cap set by Shanghai authorities, and the event could not go ahead as planned.
Some things are not known yet. The report gives no new date for the event and does not say what the attendance cap was. It also does not say how many people registered in total.
For anyone already holding a SOL perpetual position on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, this changes nothing directly. The report says nothing about funding rates, trading fees or liquidity on any exchange. A postponed conference does not change what it costs to hold a perpetual position.
Source: cointelegraph — Solana’s Liu says Shanghai event postponed over registration surge
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