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Mar 18, 2026

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A full feature walkthrough of the tool purpose-built to move liquidity provision from guesswork to measured capital allocation.

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At a GlanceThe Problem with Managing Liquidity TodayWhat is the Liquidity Terminal?Features, why they matter, and how to use themConclusionThe Problem with Managing Liquidity TodayConcentrated liquidity is the most capital-efficient way to provide liquidity onchain. It is also the most operationally demanding. Unlike full-range liquidity, a concentrated position earns fees only while the market price stays within a defined range. Go outside that range and the position stops earning. Impermanent loss (IL) continues to rack up against the position’s value relative to holding.

The challenge for LPs has never been understanding this in theory, but managing this across multiple positions, in real time from one platform. Without having to stitch together data from external dashboards, price feeds, and spreadsheets to understand what is actually happening to their position.

Most LPs have felt the operational cost of this directly. A position goes out of range over the weekend. By the time it gets rebalanced, fees that could have been earned are gone and the portfolio composition has shifted in ways that were not anticipated. The gap between LP strategy and outcome is, in large part, an information and tooling gap.

The Liquidity Terminal is Orca’s answer to narrowing that gap.

What is the Liquidity TerminalThe Liquidity Terminal is Orca’s dedicated interface for concentrated liquidity management on Solana. It is built on top of Orca’s Whirlpools, Solana’s most widely integrated CLMM infrastructure, and consolidates the key workflows an LP needs into a single product surface:

Historic priceLiquidity distributionPosition simulationRange presetsReal-time position monitoringOut-of-range notificationsPosition HistoryLive PnLThink of the Liquidity Terminal as a painter’s palette. Each feature being a color to paint with. If you only have 4 colors to paint with, the level of detail your painting has will pale in comparison to someone with 8 colors. More colors mean more shades, and more features mean you can paint a clearer picture with your positions. Let’s breakdown each one outlining what each feature does, why it matters, and how to use it. Equipping you with the palatte to paint a clear picture for LPing.

Historic PriceHistoric price displays a price chart for the selected token pair directly within the Terminal.

Why it matters: Range selection without price history is guesswork. An LP needs to see past and present volatility to make an informed decision on a position’s range.

How to use it: Open the Terminal, select your pool, and the historic price chart loads automatically as your context layer.

Liquidity DistributionLiquidity distribution shows where existing capital is concentrated across the price curve of a pool.

Why it matters: Depositing into an already saturated tick range can mean competing for a smaller share of fees. Depositing into an empty or thin tick range can mean minimal fees from lower/non-existent volume.

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How to use it: Review the distribution chart before setting your range to identify depth of liquidity across price ranges.

Position SimulatorPosition Simulator models expected P&L outcomes across price scenarios, time in-range, and LP vs Hold comparison, before any capital is committed.

Why it matters: It replaces manual spreadsheets and visualize scenarios on different strategies, before you ever deposit capital.

How to use it: This tool is accessible without connecting your wallet.

Select any poolIn your Positions table, select the “Simulator” tabSet your range, adjust time in-range slider, and review projected outcomes across price movement scenariosSee expected return comparison for LP vs holding tokensRange PresetsRange presets are predefined range widths that map to common LP strategies. Based on fixed price, single-sided, or historic price.

Why it matters: Reduce friction from strategy to execution within a couple clicks.

How to use it: Found in the “Create a Position” section, select a preset as your starting point, adjust from there using the price chart.

Real-Time Position MonitoringReal-time position monitoring displays a live price chart overlaid with an active position’s range bounds.

Why it matters: A position that goes out of range and is not caught quickly stops earning fees while impermanent loss continues to accrue.

How to use it: Open any pool, connect your wallet of choice, and view under “My Positions” tab after connecting your wallet to see every active position’s current status at a glance.

Out-of-Range NotificationsOut-of-range notifications alert an LP when the market price exits an active position’s range bounds.

Why it matters: It relieves you of needing constant monitoring across multiple positions, which is not a viable workflow at scale.

How to use it: At the top right of the page window, click on the ✉️ icon. Enable notifications that can be sent in-app, email, and via Telegram.

Position HistoryPosition history is a time-stamped log of every deposit, withdrawal, and range adjustment made to a position since it was opened.

Why it matters: Strategy improvement requires data. A capital allocator that LPs who cannot review what they did and when, cannot identify what is working.

How to use it: After selecting a pool, click on the “History” tab next to “Positions”. View a past position’s time, liquidity action, token change, position address, and transaction link.

Live PnLLive PnL shows the current unrealized profit and loss of an active position, updated in real time.

Why it matters: Gain visibility on any position’s health from one terminal.

How to use it: Live PnL is visible on both the “Positions” tab from the Liquidity Terminal and the Portfolio page.

ConclusionThe Liquidity Terminal is the product suite Orca built for Solana’s capital allocators that make serious LP management accessible and seamless at scale. The simulation features remove the guesswork from range selection. Real-time range visualization closes the information latency that causes positions to stay out of range longer than necessary. Best-in-class portfolio tracking makes it possible to manage multiple positions without the operational overhead of doing it manually.

Taken together, these tools represent a shift in how capital allocation can be practiced through providing liquidity on Solana: less reactive, more deliberate, and with the data infrastructure to support iteration and improvement over time.

The Liquidity Terminal is the most robust toolkit for capital allocators that LP on Solana.

Access the best tool for liquidity provision on Solana at orca.so/pools

ORCA: Orca is Becoming a Platform for Every Capital Allocator on Solana

PANews reported on April 20th that Orca, the liquidity protocol within the Solana ecosystem, released an update on the security incident involving its cloud hosting platform Vercel: Orca's frontend is hosted on Vercel. Out of an abundance of caution, all potentially compromised keys and deployment credentials have been rotated. Orca's on-chain protocols and user funds were unaffected. The official team will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as more information becomes available.

Previously, AI cloud service Vercel disclosed a security incident: its internal systems were accessed without authorization, affecting some users .

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Kepler Cheuvreux raises ASML’s European share price target from €1,460 to €1,830.

Kepler Cheuvreux has raised the target price for ASML’s European shares from €1,460 to €1,830.

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Stifel: U.S. economy in "overheated expansion" as AI investment cycle outweighs consumer pressure

U.S. large diversified financial services holding company Stifel has raised its year-end S&P 500 target and rolled out a stock allocation framework for a "high-growth, high-inflation" environment. The firm lifted its year-end S&P 500 target to 7,800 points, noting the U.S. economy is entering a "running hot" state—where economic growth is strengthening alongside mounting inflationary pressure. Stifel’s models show U.S. growth momentum is picking up while inflation momentum is clearly overheating, a trend that will reshape the market’s leading sector structure in the second half of the year. Instead of traditional consumer sectors, Stifel’s top picks are investment-led cyclical industries, including banks, transportation, materials, energy, semiconductors, software and equipment. The firm adds that fixed-asset investment in AI remains on the rise: large tech firms including Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Google are projected to combine for roughly $725 billion in total capital expenditures in 2026, some $100 billion higher than prior estimates. This means the AI investment chain is likely to continue outperforming the consumption chain squeezed by inflation. Stifel advises investors to reduce exposure to discretionary consumer, consumer staples, communication services and some financial services sectors, as these areas see weaker earnings revisions. Conversely, the firm favors cyclical value stocks and hedges with defensive value sectors such as insurance, autos, energy and banks.

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Analyst: Micron's earnings boost overall market sentiment for the tech sector

Chris Strazzeri, Financial Trading Manager of Moomoo’s Australia and New Zealand branch, stated: “The targeted sell-off indicates that following a sustained, strong rally in AI-related and speculative growth stocks, investors are enforcing strict valuation discipline. This serves as a warning to the market that actual earnings levels must now rise to support the currently overvalued price-to-earnings ratio. Micron Technology’s post-market earnings results largely confirm this, and its robust performance has lifted overall market sentiment in the tech sector.”

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2x Leveraged Long DRAM ETF (RAM) Records $383 Million in Trading Volume on Its First Day of Listing

According to Bitget market data, the Roundhill T-REX 2X Long DRAM Daily Target ETF (Nasdaq ticker: RAM) officially launched trading yesterday. On its first trading day, the fund recorded a total turnover of $383 million, and rose 29.47% in after-hours U.S. stock trading to hit $30.8. Note: RAM’s underlying exposure covers companies engaged in memory-related technologies, including DRAM, NAND and storage solutions, targeting active traders seeking leveraged exposure to the memory chip theme and artificial intelligence infrastructure development.

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BCA Research raises its S&P 500 target to 8,100 points, with AI remaining a core variable.

BCA Research has become the latest strategy firm to raise its US stock market target, reflecting Wall Street’s growing optimism about earnings support for US equities in the second half of the year. The institution lifted its year-end S&P 500 target from 7,700 points to 8,100 points. BCA’s core view is that first-quarter corporate earnings exceeded expectations in both strength and breadth, and the US economy has re-entered an expansion phase. Similar to JPMorgan Chase, BCA believes this stock rally is not only driven by valuation expansion—earnings themselves are delivering the index’s gains. AI remains the core variable in this assessment. Large tech firms including Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle continue to increase capital spending on data centers and AI infrastructure, driving growth in orders for chips, servers, construction, power and related industrial chains. This provides a clearer fundamental basis for upward revisions to 2026 and 2027 earnings. The institution points out that risks exist: the earnings expansion brought by AI investments has already been quickly priced into the market. If subsequent returns on capital spending are questioned, or interest rates remain elevated, further upside for the index will require more earnings confirmation rather than relying solely on investor risk appetite.

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Tom Lee: Markets have nearly priced in two interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year, and the rise in US Treasury yields is weighing on market sentiment.

Tom Lee said the market is still digesting Kevin Warsh’s remarks from his first press conference last week and repricing the macro environment. Over the past week, oil prices have pulled back, with war premiums contracting. Current oil prices are not far from the roughly $65 level seen before the conflict, indicating the market views related war risks as declining. On the other hand, 10-year U.S. Treasury yields continue to rise, now around 4.5%, higher than the pre-conflict level of roughly 4.2%. The main headwind the market has faced recently has shifted from oil prices to yields. Tom Lee noted that the market is not only focused on 10-year U.S. Treasury yields but also starting to price in potential additional interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. According to federal funds futures, the market is currently pricing in nearly two rate hikes this year. Bank of America further projected today that the Fed will raise rates three times this year, in September, October, and December respectively. Jeffrey Gundlach often emphasizes the importance of monitoring 2-year U.S. Treasury yields, as they typically lead the Fed and signal the central bank’s policy direction. Between 2023 and 2025, the relationship between 2-year U.S. Treasury yields and the federal funds rate indicated that the Fed’s policy was overly tight, requiring interest rate cuts. However, this relationship has recently reversed, meaning the Fed would need two rate hikes to catch up with 2-year U.S. Treasury yields. He believes that, at least for now, yields have become a headwind for the market.

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PANews reported on May 27th that, according to CoinDesk, Solana decentralized exchange Orca has launched "permissioned pools" infrastructure for tokenized trading of real-world assets with high compliance requirements. The first to integrate is commodity tokenization company Streamex, whose gold-linked security GLDY will be the first compliant token traded on the system. Orca stated that this mechanism is primarily aimed at the US market, allowing only KYC-verified investors to buy, sell, and hold the relevant tokens. Issuers can customize access rules, which will be automatically executed by the on-chain system. The permissioned pools run on top of Orca's existing liquidity infrastructure, and the interface will indicate whether the asset is restricted and whether the user is eligible to trade.

Orca has launched permissioned pools on Solana to support compliant secondary trading for RWA assets onchain.

RWA Infrastructure Expands on Orca

Today, issuers can toggle permissions on permissionless infrastructure that permit eligible participants to transact regulated assets on @solana

That means:
– Asset issuers now have a new distribution channel to eligible participants onchain
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— Orca 🌊 (@orca_so) May 27, 2026

The new pools allow asset issuers to set eligibility requirements for who can hold or trade their tokens, creating a permissioned trading environment on permissionless infrastructure. The setup is designed for accredited and KYC verified investors, with compliance checks enforced at the token level rather than handled only through offchain processes.

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Streamex, a Nasdaq listed company focused on tokenized commodity real world assets, is the first issuer to use the infrastructure. Its GLDY token, a gold backed, yield bearing tokenized security, will trade through the GLDY Pool on Orca.

The launch expands Orca’s role beyond standard decentralized exchange activity and into onchain capital markets infrastructure. Orca said its AMM infrastructure has processed more than $500 billion in cumulative trading volume since launching on Solana five years ago, with no reported smart contract exploits.

The system uses Solana’s Default Account State extension to initialize token accounts in a frozen state. Wallet holders must complete the issuer’s verification process before they can hold or transact the regulated asset. An onchain access control layer then syncs KYC and accreditation status from the issuer’s platform in real time, allowing eligibility to be continuously enforced.

The model addresses one of the main bottlenecks for tokenized securities: secondary market liquidity. Streamex said GLDY is offered under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D and is available only to verified accredited investors, while Orca’s permissioned pools provide a venue where eligible holders can seek 24/7 liquidity onchain.

The infrastructure could also extend beyond GLDY to other tokenized securities, including stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, and royalties. For Orca, the launch positions its Solana based liquidity stack as a bridge between regulated asset issuance and decentralized market infrastructure.

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Tokenized commodities platform Streamex said it is launching a Solana-based marketplace for trading tokenized assets in partnership with Orca, a decentralized exchange built on Solana.

According to a Tuesday announcement, the trading infrastructure will allow verified accredited investors to buy and sell Streamex’s yield-bearing, gold-backed GLDY token through regulated onchain trading pools operating around the clock.

The system uses identity and compliance checks tied to Streamex’s KYC and accreditation process to restrict trading access to approved investors while enabling secondary market liquidity for regulated digital assets.

The companies said neither Streamex nor Orca will act as brokers or intermediaries for investors seeking to resell the GLDY token.

Trading takes place through permissioned liquidity pools built on Orca, where investor wallets remain frozen until users complete identity verification and accreditation checks. Investor eligibility data is also updated onchain in real time to ensure only approved participants can access the market.

Orca said its automated market maker infrastructure has processed more than $500 billion in cumulative trading volume since launch. The companies said the GLDY trading pool could serve as a model for other tokenized assets tied to stocks, bonds, real estate and commodities.

Exchanges race to build tokenized trading railsThe launch comes amid a broader push to build regulated trading infrastructure for tokenized stocks, funds and other traditional financial assets.

Earlier this month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved Nasdaq’s pilot proposal to allow tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds to trade alongside their traditional counterparts on the same exchange.

Under the proposal, tokenized securities would share the same order books, ticker symbols and shareholder rights as conventional shares. Participation in the pilot is initially limited to eligible participants and securities tied to the Russell 1000 index and some of the biggest exchange-traded funds.

Other exchanges and tokenization companies are also expanding blockchain-based market infrastructure. In March, the New York Stock Exchange signed an agreement with Securitize to develop infrastructure for tokenized stocks and ETFs tied to Intercontinental Exchange’s planned digital trading platform.

Centrifuge, a tokenization platform focused on real-world assets, recently said it plans to bring tokenized Treasurys, private credit and AAA-rated collateralized loan obligation products to the Monad blockchain for use in lending, collateral and secondary market activity.

Data from RWA.xyz shows the tokenized real-world asset market has grown to roughly $34 billion, with Treasury and commodity-backed products representing some of the largest segments.

Source: RWA.xyz

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Phoenix Group has published its most recent crypto market snapshot, which shows the digital assets that are in the accumulation stage as of February 23, 2026. The report lists ten tokens with sustained accumulations in both trading and positioning, which argues that investors are quietly building up exposure. The data show that crypto assets in various industries, such as DeFi, metaverse, infrastructure, and payments, are undergoing significant accumulation periods of between three days and thirty days.

The accumulation phase as identified in the report is characterized by a period of above normal trading volumes which is usually systematic positioning by larger market participants or algorithm trading systems. Although price volatility could be mild at this phase, on-chain indicators and liquidity flows can indicate underlying demand.

Short-Term Accumulation: Orca and GoPlus Lead Early Moves Orca (ORCA) has one of the shortest accumulation periods, with a market capitalization of $58.6 million today and three days of accumulation traced. Decentralized exchange protocol Orca seems to be experiencing a resurgence of interest following a comparatively silent period.

GoPlus (GPS) ranks second with a market capitalization of $57.2 million and an accumulation period of twelve days. The Web3 infrastructure project with security in mind has been gaining momentum steadily, implying that traders might be preparing for the possible developments in the ecosystem.

Mid-Cap Crypto Assets: Zilliqa, Somnia, and Fluid Zilliqa (ZIL) has an accumulation period of seventeen days, which is backed by a market capitalization of $82.1 million. Being a scalable, enterprise-oriented layer-1 blockchain, Zilliqa has a long build, so it is unlikely that the interest of investors will fade into a short-lived speculative peak.

Somnia (SOMI) is worth $31.8 million and has accumulated over eighteen days. Somnia, with a small market capitalization relative to Zilliqa, has just under three weeks to build, thus suggesting constant positioning.

The best performer in this segment is fluid (FLUID) with a market capitalization of $157.0 million and an accumulation of twenty-three days. Its greater valuation and the extended period of build might indicate institutional or high-volume trader participation.

Extended Accumulation: Boundless, Kaia, and Infinit Boundless (ZKC) is on its twenty-five-day accumulation mark, but it has a relatively small market capitalization of $19.8 million. In lower-cap tokens, the accumulation breaks out as a sharp movement of the token.

Kaia (KAIA) leads the list in market capitalization of $318.0 million, and has maintained twenty-seven days of accumulation. Its valuation position is close to the upper end of the spectrum, indicating that there might be substantial capital flowing into the crypto asset.

Infinit (IN) with its twenty-seven days of accumulation has a market cap of $19.2 million dollars. Although its size is smaller, the corresponding time period with Kaia includes constant involvement instead of the occasional bursts.

Thirty-Day Leaders: The Sandbox and Alchemy Pay Sandbox (SAND) and Alchemy Pay (ACH) lead in the rank of duration, with a record of thirty days in growth. The metaverse-oriented platform, the Sandbox, has a large market capitalization in the form of a substantial 212.7 million dollars. An entire month of accumulation usually represents systematic positioning as opposed to a short-term purchase.

Alchemy Pay has a $72.3 million market cap, which reveals month long accumulation period as well. Being a crypto-fiat payment gateway provider, its prolonged build may indicate a new revival of payment infrastructure stories.

Crypto Market Implications of the Accumulation Trend The variety of assets on the list of Phoenix Group demonstrates a mixed activity in the digital asset market. Ranging from the decentralized exchange, the likes of Orca, to the infrastructure projects such as Zilliqa, metaverse exposure via The Sandbox, payment solutions like Alchemy Pay, and the new tokens such as Boundless and Infinit, it seems to cut across a variety of verticals.

The coming weeks will decide whether these assets will turn quiet positioning into general market rallies with accumulation periods of between three days and thirty days. At this point, the recent statistics of Phoenix Group indicate that strategic capital management remains under the radar of the crypto market.

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