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Nasdaq-listed Brera Holdings will rename itself Solmate Infrastructure, moving away from soccer-club ownership toward an institutional-grade Solana infrastructure hub headquartered in the UAE. The company said it will wind down two teams and enact a 10-for-1 reverse stock split as part of a broader digital-asset restructuring.

In Q4, institutional investors — led by investment advisors and hedge funds — accumulated over $540 million in US spot Solana ETFs and now hold about half of the funds’ assets. SOL has rebounded above $80 as trading volume jumped 76%, reflecting strong non-retail demand.

The Jito Foundation has acquired SolanaFloor and will relaunch it, restoring independent Solana news and data coverage after the site's abrupt closure following major exploits and treasury breaches at its former owner, Step Finance.

Although Solana has dropped about 57% since the U.S. ETF debut and remains well under its 2025 highs, spot Solana ETFs have gathered roughly $1.5 billion in inflows. Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says this points to robust, increasing institutional appetite despite adverse price movement and 'unlucky timing.'

SOL Strategies’ shares climbed roughly 21% following its February update, which reported robust Solana staking gains: STKESOL exceeded 691,000 SOL staked, validator revenue rose 120% year‑over‑year, and its validator network expanded to over 33,500 unique wallets.

Western Union has partnered with Crossmint to introduce and widen access to its USDPT stablecoin on Solana, combining traditional remittance infrastructure with blockchain payments and digital wallets. The initiative could help extend Solana's bullish momentum seen in March.

Step Finance will wind down its Solana-focused services, including SolanaFloor and Remora Markets, after a January 2026 wallet breach that siphoned as much as $40 million. Attempts to raise funds or secure an acquisition failed, leaving no viable route to recovery.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko said Solana might now be more decentralized than Ethereum and even Bitcoin. In a recent social media post he argued Solana is nearer to Satoshi-level decentralization and may have overtaken its main rivals in terms of distributed network strength.

Magic Eden plans to close its Bitcoin and EVM NFT marketplaces and retire its multi-chain wallet beginning March 2026, ceasing support for non-Solana tokens and returning to a Solana-centric model. The move includes focusing on its Dicey iGaming offering amid broader NFT market consolidation.

Michael Saylor is extending his Bitcoin thesis beyond “digital property” toward a Bitcoin-backed “digital credit” model — employing BTC as primary collateral to issue yield-bearing instruments and programmable credit on networks like Solana and Ethereum, aiming to turn Bitcoin’s volatility into steady income streams for global capital markets.

Solana (SOL) slipped beneath the key $80 support amid a broader crypto risk-off, sliding roughly 6–7% in recent sessions. While the short-term bias looks bearish and retail leverage seems restrained, price action in the $75–80 area has shown buying interest and signs of seller fatigue, even as institutional ETF demand for SOL grows.

Solana and HSDT are launching the Pacific Backbone, a Pantera-backed, low-latency, high-throughput network linking major Asia-Pacific financial centers to provide institutional-grade Solana staking, validator services and trading/execution infrastructure for traditional finance firms entering crypto.

Zora, the Ethereum-origin creator and NFT platform, has launched attention markets on Solana that let users trade tokens pegged to social media trends and memes. The Feb. 17 rollout lifted the ZORA token about 6.2%, as competition in SocialFi intensifies.

Anchorage Digital, Kamino and Solana Company unveiled a novel tri-party custody framework that lets institutions borrow in a regulated setting using natively staked SOL held in qualified custody as collateral, enhancing liquidity for treasury management and triggering a more than 14% rise in Solana Company's share price amid softer SOL market conditions.

Goldman Sachs' Q4 2025 filing shows over $2.36 billion in crypto ETFs: $1.1B in Bitcoin, $1.0B in Ethereum and more than $260M combined in XRP and Solana, indicating increased institutional adoption and diversification into major altcoins.

Sushi has officially launched on Solana, integrating Jupiter to provide fast, low-fee token swaps that tap Solana's expanding DEX liquidity. The move broadens Sushi's multi-chain DeFi footprint and helps users avoid Ethereum's high gas fees.

NX8 is Nansen’s inaugural Joint Venture Protocol product: a zero-fee, tokenized index that includes eight leading Layer-1 networks (BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, TRON, Hyperliquid, Avalanche, and Sui), issued natively on Solana and built on LayerZero’s OFT standard to provide diversified onchain exposure.

Solana’s fall toward the $100 mark is being treated by many as a buy-the-dip, with technical indicators and on-chain activity cited as supporting a potential rebound. Short-term weakness prompted some 2026 estimates to be cut to roughly $250, yet analysts — including Standard Chartered — see a longer-term shift from memecoins to stablecoin micropayments and forecast upside to as much as $2,000 by 2030.

ING Germany is broadening regulated crypto access by listing exchange-traded products (ETPs) and notes (ETNs) tied to major tokens including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP. The bank says these offerings are taxed like directly held bitcoin, warns they are risky and lack intrinsic value, and presents the move as a response to rising retail and institutional demand.

Jupiter has added Polymarket to its Solana platform, letting users access prediction markets directly in the app. The partnership, paired with ParaFi Capital’s $35 million strategic JUP investment under an extended lockup, marks Polymarket’s first launch on Solana and expands event-driven trading within Jupiter.