Solana Sheds Memecoin Past as Banks Pour Billions Into SOL
The capital tells the story: trillions in TradFi balance sheets are now flowing into a chain most investors wrote off as a memecoin casino a year ago.
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The capital tells the story: trillions in TradFi balance sheets are now flowing into a chain most investors wrote off as a memecoin casino a year ago.
Novogratz's Galaxy becomes one of a small group of firms cleared by NYDFS to custody and trade crypto on behalf of institutions — a regulatory green light Wall Street has been waiting on.
BTC and ETH spot ETFs logged their largest combined single-day outflow in weeks, while the still-thin Solana ETF complex pulled in another week of net inflows.
The headline move is Saylor's $2.01B add, but the more durable signal is that institutional accumulation is still leading the tape even as stablecoin issuance cools and DEX volumes fade.
The integration turns Tempo from a payments rail into a full-stack finance platform — letting corporates park idle stablecoin balances in curated lending markets without leaving the network.
The bitcoin miner is now leaning hard into AI compute: the 320MW, 100,000-GPU Toronto site is the largest single bet yet on BUZZ HPC, just two weeks after a $115M raise.
Minnesota has become the latest US state to formally open the door for traditional financial institutions to hold…
CoinShares' $1.07B weekly outflow broke a six-week run — $982M from Bitcoin and $249M from Ethereum — while XRP and Solana still pulled in fresh capital despite the geopolitical bid for safety.
The exit from one of Wall Street's most-watched desks is the signal — a rotation toward BTC and ETH as XRP stalls near $1.40 and SOL sheds nearly 12% in a week.
Hive Digital's latest Canada build pushes its GPU roadmap past 100,000 accelerators and doubles down on a pivot from Bitcoin mining to AI compute.
The 4.37% supply stake and $289M annualized staking yield signal treasury conviction at scale — making Bitmine one of the largest single-entity ETH holders now visible on-chain.
The $1.07B weekly redemption — Bitcoin-led and U.S.-concentrated — marks the third-largest of 2026, with Iran-driven risk-off doing the work that fading Clarity Act momentum couldn't fully offset.
Michael Saylor's Strategy has acquired 24,869 Bitcoin for approximately $2 billion, marking one of the largest single…
Bitmine added 71,672 ETH last week in a single-week accumulation push that lifted its total holdings to 5.28 million…
Strategy's weekly haul — the largest in months — lifts its hoard past 580,000 BTC, reinforcing the corporate-treasury bid that has become a structural floor under the market.
The latest haul pushes the treasury to 843,738 BTC and an unrealized profit of $1.49B — proof that even after a multi-year accumulation run, the corporate bid for Bitcoin is still live and still…
With 89% of holdings already staked and 4.37% of all ETH concentrated in one corporate treasury, Bitmine's accumulation pace is now a direct read on institutional conviction in the asset.
The $2.01B buy lifts Strategy's BTC holdings above 843,000 — roughly 4% of all bitcoin ever mined — at an average cost basis under $76K per coin.
The treasury push added 71,672 ETH in a single week and now equals more than 4% of all Ethereum ever issued, putting the company 87% of the way to its stated 5% target in just 11 months.
The $4T figure, evenly split between stablecoins and tokenized RWAs, positions DeFi protocols as the native infrastructure layer — and clears a path for protocol tokens to capture the throughput.