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Bitcoin (BTC) jumped 5.8% to levels above $69,500 on Wednesday, wiping out $1.23 billion in bets against it in one hour. Is the crypto bull market back?

The rally ran market-wide, with Ethereum (ETH) up 9% to $2,088, Solana (SOL) up 6.5%, and XRP (XRP) up 6.9%. One decision in Washington set it off.

Crypto Market Explodes Wednesday. Source: CoinGeckoA $4 Billion Signal From the US TreasuryThe US Treasury said it will double its buybacks of long-term government bonds to at least $4 billion per operation. In plain terms, the government stepped in as a buyer of its own debt.

The timing couldn’t be better for risk assets. The 30-year yield, the interest rate the US pays on its longest debt, had just hit 5.337%. That was its highest level since 2007. The Treasury buyback announcement knocked it back to 5.192%.

Markets read the move as proof that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is watching borrowing costs. When yields fall, bonds pay less, and money hunts for returns elsewhere. Bitcoin sits near the front of that line.

$1.2 trillion has been added to precious metals and crypto in the last 3 hours.

Gold up +3.08%, adding $934 billion.
Silver up +3.86%, adding $136 billion.
Bitcoin up +8.14%, adding $103 billion.
Ethereum up +9.66%, adding $22 billion.

This comes as the Treasury announced it… pic.twitter.com/3P02115yc6

— Bull Theory (@BullTheoryio) August 19, 2026
Sentiment followed. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index moved to 46 on Wednesday, steadily approaching the neutral zone after sitting lower last week.

Crypto Fear and Greed Index. Source: Alternative.meHow $1.23 Billion in Short Bets Vanished in One HourTraders who bet on falling prices, known as shorts, paid dearly. Roughly $1.23 billion of those bets were closed out at a loss within an hour.

Across 24 hours, the billion-dollar short liquidations reached $1.57 billion and hit more than 114,000 traders. Three large wallets on Hyperliquid lost a combined $194 million alone.

Here is why that fuels a rally. When a short bet fails, the exchange buys the asset back at market price. Every forced buy pushes the price higher, which wipes out more shorts. The squeeze feeds itself.

Analyst Michaël van de Poppe argued that the Treasury decision changes the market’s trajectory.

“This is a great announcement and is a great trigger for the markets. #Bitcoin in a bull market, the likelihood of this has increased,” he shared in a post.

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The daily chart carries a warning in itself. Wednesday’s candle ran straight into a fair value gap (FVG), a zone the price crashed through in early June too fast for normal two-way trading. Think of it as a pothole the market skipped on the way down.

Price tends to revisit these zones to fill the imbalance before picking a direction. This gap sits between roughly $67,516 and $70,686. Bitcoin tagged it on Wednesday, reaching an intraday high of $69,500 as of this writing, before easing to $67,996 at press time.

Bitcoin Fair Value Gap (FVG). Source: TradingViewThe gap’s midline near $69,110, known as the mean threshold (ME), is the tiebreaker. A daily candle close above it would suggest the rally has further to run.

A rejection would mean the gap has done its job. The inefficiency is filled, and the broader downtrend could resume.

The volume profiles (black for bears and green for bulls) show where traders are positioned on the vertical axis. Based on the chart, more bulls than bears are waiting to interact with BTC price above the gap’s midline, lending credence to the need for the price to close above it.

Such a move could propagate further upside, with the Bitcoin price likely to reach $72,000, almost 6% above current levels.

However, with bears (black horizontal bars) still hovering below the mean threshold, price could remain subdued below $69,000.

Bull Market Signal or Temporary Swing?The skeptics have numbers too. Bitcoin’s price action still sits roughly 46% below its October 2025 record of $126,080.

Bitcoin Price Outlook. Source: BeInCrypto
“History suggests Bitcoin is approaching a resistance area it won’t be able to breach at this very moment in the market cycle,” analyst Rekt Capital cautioned, suggesting charts still favor sellers.

Borrowed money adds another worry. Bitcoin’s funding rate warning flashed this week after the metric hit a 20-month high. That means traders are paying steep fees to keep betting on higher prices.

Similar readings preceded past pullbacks. Analyst Benjamin Cowen still places Bitcoin’s cycle bottom 69 to 73 days away.

The bulls answer with demand. CryptoQuant data showed Bitcoin demand growing again on a 30-day basis for the first time in months. That suggests real buying, not just forced buying.

Spot and Futures Demand

“Spot and perpetual futures demand growth have both crossed back above zero on the 30-day sum. It is the first time in months that the two are positive at the same time.” – By @RugaResearch

Complete breakdown ⤵️https://t.co/SuCyK3B6mB

— CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) August 19, 2026
The next test is clear. Traders want bulls to defend the $65,000 to $67,000 zone and close a daily candle above $69,110 on Wednesday.

Federal Reserve minutes from the July meeting, due today, could decide which side gets its answer first.

On October 10 last year, a Friday, a tariff headline hit an over-leveraged market, and roughly $19 billion in positions were liquidated within 24 hours, most of them longs, most of them retail.

Bitcoin fell from above $120,000 to around $105,000. Solana lost 40% before finding a bid, and more than 1.6 million accounts went to zero or close to it. Prices eventually stabilized. The people did not come back the same way.

Ten months on, October 10 will be remembered less for the crash itself than for what it did to retail behavior. The risk appetite survived. It just stopped showing up in the same places.

Biggest Crypto Liquidations of All-Time. Source: Coinglass
A Drawdown for Some, a Wipeout for Others
The October 10 crash showed how different spot and futures trading are, if it wasn’t clear before. A spot trader took a brutal hit that day, but they still held on to their coins. They can still wait for prices to eventually go back up. But a perpetual futures trader likely has nothing left. 

Rebuilding capital from zero is a different project than sitting through a bad year.

Every dataset since carries the mark. On-chain perp volumes fell for five straight months after October, from $1.36 trillion to under $700 billion, with no bounce in between. 

An estimated 38% of altcoins now sit near all-time lows, a worse reading than the aftermath of FTX, and the median altcoin trades roughly 79 percent below its cycle peak. 

Tokens that carried multi-billion-dollar valuations in September learned in October that there was no bid underneath them until they were 50-80% lower.

Something else shifted alongside the prices. With stock markets setting records on AI, crypto stopped being the only destination for risk capital, and investors started demanding an answer to a question this industry dodged for years: what is a token actually worth when speculators’ attention moves elsewhere?

Bitcoin Price Chart Since October 10, 2025. Source: CoinGecko
Why Hyperliquid Went Up While Markets Crashed
Hyperliquid is instructive because it had an answer. HYPE traded down into the mid-$20s over the winter, then set a new all-time high near $77 in June on the back of more than $650 million in annual revenue, and now carries a market cap above $12 billion.

A crypto business with real cash flow got repriced upward in the middle of a bear market. The wave of perpetual DEXs that launched to copy it mostly did not, because they were not creating new traders so much as renting the same ones from each other. 

One prominent venue lost 83% of its monthly volume the moment its incentive season ended. The industry kept adding venues while the pool of perp traders shrank. Hyperliquid is starting to look like the exception, not the template.

Hyperliquid Monthly Revenue and TVL. Source: DeFilLama
The Game That Never Needed Leverage
Meanwhile, the traders everyone assumed would be the first casualties were barely noticed. Meme coin traders came through October relatively intact because their game never ran on leverage, and by January, while altcoins bled out, pump.fun was printing an all-time high above $2 billion in daily volume.

Roughly 97% of meme coins die. Every serious participant knows it and plays anyway. There is no white paper to read and usually no technology to evaluate. Because dead tokens are part of the design, the way lost hands are part of poker. 

What gets analyzed instead is holder counts, wallet concentration, supply distribution, who bought and when, and how fast attention is spreading. Market structure, attention, and social coordination. That is the asset.

The closest analogy is competitive gaming rather than investing. These traders grind, refine their tactics, study the other players at the table, and treat a losing trade as one bad round in a long session rather than a failed thesis. 

The goal is not to invest in an asset. It is to win a PvP game.

Where the Volume Went
So are the perpetual futures dying along with the altcoin market it grew up on? The volume data points the other way.

In the first five months of 2026, exchanges processed $1.32 trillion in perpetual futures tied to stocks, indices, and commodities, against $104 billion in all of 2025. The first regulated tokenized-equity perps went live in February. 

The S&P 500 now has a licensed on-chain perpetual, and when Wall Street closes on Friday afternoon, these contracts keep trading through the weekend, increasingly setting the price Monday opens against.

Some exchanges, like Phemex, launched TradFi futures. This is because users have been demanding it through their behavior, if not their words. 

Tesla, Apple, Nvidia, gold, silver, and the major indices now trade around the clock on the same USDT account and margin system as their crypto positions, and volume crossed $100 million on day one. Nobody was holding out for another altcoin listing. They wanted something worth trading at 3 a.m. on a Sunday.

As today’s meme coin traders age and accumulate capital, many of them will likely diversify into exactly these markets, on rails they already know how to use.

The Rewiring: Crypto Will Never Be the Same Again
The 2020 version of this industry, hundreds of tokens sustaining deep valuations and deep perp books all at once, is probably gone for good. What replaced it is narrower and more honest.

On one end, a fast, explicitly player-versus-player game in the memecoin ecosystem. On the other hand, perpetual futures are quietly becoming infrastructure for global markets.

The market that produced the last altcoin boom may never come back. The infrastructure it built is getting started, and it is already moving markets far beyond crypto. Our job is to be where speculation is going, not where it was.

Jupiter’s dominance of Solana’s DEX aggregator market has reached a new low. According to Blockworks data, Jupiter accounted for 48% of Solana DEX aggregator volume on August 18, marking the first time its daily share has fallen below 50% since launch. OKX captured 37%, while DFlow and Titan accounted for 13% and 2%, respectively.

The latest figures extend a decline that has accelerated over the past several months. In early April, Jupiter controlled about 90% of weekly aggregator volume. By Aug. 1, that figure had fallen to 71%, representing a roughly 20% decline in 4 months.

OKX and DFlow have captured much of the share Jupiter has lost. OKX held 13% of daily volume on Aug. 1, while DFlow accounted for 11%.

Jupiter Continues Expanding As Revenue Declines Jupiter’s declining aggregator share comes as the company continues to expand its broader DeFi ecosystem.

Jupiter Lend has steadily gained ground against competitors such as Kamino in recent weeks. Its Gacha product also attracted more than $27 million in user spending within 3 weeks of its launch.

On Aug. 10, Jupiter launched Lend v2, which introduced Smart Collateral and Smart Debt. The optional features allow deposited and borrowed assets to also provide DEX liquidity, giving users the potential to earn lending yield alongside trading fees and, where applicable, staking rewards.

The additional yield depends on actual trading activity through the associated liquidity pools, linking Lend v2's performance partly to Jupiter’s routing activity.

Jupiter’s falling market share also comes against a backdrop of declining revenue. DefiLlama data indicates that Jupiter generated about $2.24 million in revenue so far in August. That figure puts the platform on pace for another relatively weak month if the current trend continues.

The decline looks more significant when compared with Jupiter’s 2024 and 2025 performance.

Monthly revenue surged throughout 2024 and peaked at over $28 million in late 2024. Several months in 2025 also generated more than $10 million, with some approaching or exceeding $20 million.

Revenue has since fallen considerably. Recent monthly figures have fallen to their lowest levels in roughly two years, highlighting the pressure facing its core business as trading activity and aggregator share change.

OKX Gains While Titan Fades OKX has emerged as Jupiter’s most significant challenger in the aggregator market. Incentivized trading campaigns may have contributed to its rising share.

Titan, meanwhile, has fallen from being Solana’s second-largest aggregator to just 2% of daily volume according to Blockworks data. Titan operates as a meta-aggregator, meaning its quotes can include routing through other aggregators. That structure can cause some of its flow to appear in competing venues.

Despite weaker overall onchain activity during the crypto bear market, DEX aggregators remain important to Solana traders even as DEX aggregator share of spot volume has dropped to its lowest level in months.

Jupiter’s fall below 50% therefore marks more than a change in one platform’s market share. It signals a more competitive Solana trading market, with OKX and DFlow increasingly challenging the dominance Jupiter held for years.

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Solana Mobile has announced the launch of a USDC Earn Vault within its Seed Vault Wallet, using the DeFi protocol Kamino. This initiative allows Seeker users to earn variable yield on USDC deposits with automatic compounding and no lockup period. The move integrates more closely Solana’s consumer wallet offerings with on-chain yield products, potentially enhancing user engagement with the Solana ecosystem. Kamino’s role as a DeFi protocol offering lending and liquidity products further supports this integration, showcasing Solana’s commitment to expanding its mobile wallet capabilities.

The market reaction to this development suggests potential increased interest in Solana-related products. Although the source is classified as Tier 3, indicating limited immediate impact, markets may still view this as a positive indicator for Solana’s network growth. Current predictions for Solana’s price reaching certain targets in August show mixed expectations, with some significant movements in probabilities observed in recent activity.

Key Takeaways Solana Mobile’s launch appears to integrate its consumer wallets more deeply with on-chain services, suggesting enhanced ecosystem utility. Market behavior indicates potential user growth in Solana’s ecosystem due to this added functionality with USDC Earn Vault. Despite the Tier 3 source, the development is seen as consistent with potential for increased demand for Solana. What to Watch Watch for subsequent Solana announcements or partnerships that could further influence its ecosystem development. Any changes in Solana’s network performance or additional product integrations may support scenarios where Solana gains increased utility. Additionally, attention should be given to broader market movements and regulatory developments that could affect the overall sentiment towards Solana and its offerings in the DeFi space.

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Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine said on Aug. 18 that the CLARITY Act has only a 10% chance of becoming law before the November midterm elections.

Summary

Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine assigns the Clarity Act 10% odds before November’s midterms. Senate leaders scheduled a cloture vote on proceeding to the bill for September 15 afternoon. Polymarket currently prices 2026 passage near 20%, with trading volume exceeding $7.2 million in total. The procedural vote would begin Senate consideration and would not constitute final passage of legislation. SEC proposed separate crypto offering rules while Congress continues debating broader digital asset market structure. Speaking at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, Whitehouse-Levine described the digital asset market structure bill as being in “August recess purgatory.” He said the narrowing congressional calendar and unresolved industry disputes had made passage increasingly difficult.

His percentage is a personal assessment, not an official forecast. The Senate has taken one procedural step that preserves a September path, but several votes and further negotiations would still be required.

CLARITY Act faces a Sept. 15 procedural test Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 before senators left Washington. The chamber resumes normal business on Sept. 14.

The official Senate schedule says the cloture motion will ripen at 2:15 p.m. on Sept. 15. Approval would allow the Senate to begin considering the legislation.

The vote is not final passage. Senators would still need to debate the measure, consider amendments and approve the resulting text. Any Senate changes could also require further House action before the bill reaches the president.

As crypto.news previously explained, the September procedural vote will test whether supporters have enough bipartisan backing to overcome the Senate’s 60 vote cloture threshold.

Prediction markets remain more optimistic Polymarket’s live market placed the chance of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 at approximately 20% on Aug. 19. Trading volume had passed $7.2 million.

Kalshi traders placed the probability near 23% on Aug. 18, down from roughly 50% less than a month earlier. Prediction market prices can move quickly and do not guarantee legislative outcomes.

The comparison with Whitehouse-Levine’s 10% estimate requires caution. His prediction covered passage before the November midterms, while the Polymarket contract allows the bill to become law through Dec. 31.

SOLANA $SOL POLICY INSTITUTE CEO MILLER WHITEHOUSE-LEVINE SAYS CLARITY ACT IS IN "AUGUST RECESS PURGATORY," GIVES IT 10% ODDS OF PASSING BEFORE MIDTERMS

— The Wolf Of All Streets (@scottmelker) August 18, 2026 The market therefore includes a possible post election session. That wider deadline partly explains why traders may assign higher odds than Whitehouse-Levine did.

Stablecoin and ethics disputes narrow the path Whitehouse-Levine said participation by banks, securities companies and derivatives firms had added competing demands to negotiations. Banks remain concerned about provisions involving stablecoin rewards, while other financial firms are focused on sections affecting their existing businesses.

Democratic lawmakers have also sought ethics restrictions covering government officials’ digital asset interests. Those disputes add to negotiations over SEC and CFTC jurisdiction, decentralized finance and customer protection.

Whitehouse-Levine called himself “hopeful, but realistic about its odds.” He also warned that failure would discard more than a year of work by congressional lawmakers and staff.

In earlier coverage, crypto.news mapped how the limited Senate calendar leaves little time for debate and amendments before election politics consume the floor.

SEC moves while Congress remains stalled The SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on Aug. 18, creating a separate regulatory track while Congress debates the broader market structure bill.

The agency’s proposal includes two exemptions for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets. One would cover offerings of up to $5 million during four years. Another would cover up to $75 million during each 12 month period.

The rules remain proposals and cannot replace every provision in the CLARITY Act. Agency rules also carry less permanence than federal legislation and remain subject to statutory limits and court review.

Whitehouse-Levine said regulators should move because the industry “can’t afford to keep waiting for Congress.” His organization plans to focus on token fundraising pathways and rules allowing more securities and derivatives activity to occur onchain.

The next confirmed event is the Sept. 15 cloture vote. Failure to proceed would sharply reduce the bill’s remaining 2026 path. Success would keep it alive but leave amendments, final passage and possible House coordination unresolved.

Interstice Digital has launched a non-custodial cross-chain swap engine with FalconX that connects the Canton Network with Ethereum, Solana, and Robinhood Chain while using FalconX to supply liquidity.

Summary

Interstice Digital has launched a non-custodial swap engine connecting Canton with Ethereum, Solana and Robinhood Chain. FalconX is providing liquidity for cross-chain swaps without Interstice taking custody of user assets. The engine gives users a route between tokenized assets on Canton and liquidity across major public blockchains. Canton is already being used for tokenized Treasuries, stablecoin settlement and institutional collateral transactions. Interstice Digital said in an Aug. 18 announcement that the engine lets users swap assets across the four networks without the company taking custody of funds or executing transactions on their behalf. The company also said the product has been named a Featured App on Canton.

The system is designed to give users a route between tokenized assets issued or traded through Canton and liquidity available on public blockchain networks. FalconX, which provides digital asset prime brokerage services to institutional investors, is supplying liquidity for the engine.

Interstice Digital links Canton with three public-chain markets Under the new setup, Interstice is connecting Canton’s institution-focused infrastructure with Ethereum, Solana and Robinhood Chain, three networks that provide access to different parts of the digital asset market.

Interstice described Canton as a public, permissionless blockchain built for capital markets, with privacy and permissioning controls intended for regulated transactions. The network is used by financial institutions working with tokenized securities, collateral, and blockchain-based settlement.

For the public-chain side of the connection, Interstice cited the scale of the networks involved. The company said Robinhood has 28 million funded accounts and $369 billion in total platform assets, while Robinhood Chain reached 100 million transactions faster than any other EVM network.

Solana recorded 167 million monthly active addresses in April 2026 and handled $650 billion of stablecoin transaction volume in February, according to figures cited by Interstice. The company described Ethereum as the industry’s deepest developer ecosystem and noted that Robinhood Chain uses Ethereum technology as its base.

“We built the cross-chain swap engine to help connect Solana, Ethereum, and Robinhood Chain to the growing Canton ecosystem where over $9T in tokenized RWA flow monthly,” Interstice Digital CEO Janine Yorio said.

Interstice did not disclose which assets are supported at launch or provide transaction-volume figures for the engine. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Everyrealm and is backed by investors including a16z Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy and Brevan Howard.

FalconX supplies liquidity without Interstice holding user assets FalconX’s role centers on liquidity for swaps routed through the engine. Interstice said its non-custodial structure means it does not hold customer assets or act as the party executing transactions for users.

FalconX Head of Trading Strategy Hassan Bassiri said institutional demand for digital assets is increasing and argued that firms will need infrastructure capable of moving capital between different ecosystems.

“The cross-chain swap engine we’ve developed with Interstice Digital is exactly the kind of infrastructure this market needs,” Bassiri said, after describing cross-ecosystem capital movement as an important requirement for institutional firms.

Canton is also being used for live and trial transactions involving government securities, stablecoins and institutional collateral.

Earlier in August, four Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group companies launched a proof of concept to test Japanese government bond repo transactions on Canton, as crypto.news reported on Aug. 13. MUFG, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking and MUFG Bank are working with Digital Asset and Progmat on the project.

The participants plan to test automated processing and real-time settlement available around the clock. The trial forms part of Japan’s Financial Services Agency-backed Payment Innovation Project and includes work on whether blockchain infrastructure can improve funding and capital use in repo markets.

An earlier Japanese trial involving Japan Securities Clearing Corporation, Mizuho Financial Group, Nomura Holdings and Digital Asset tested whether rights linked to Japanese government bonds and updates to book-entry records could be handled through Canton while remaining within Japan’s existing legal framework.

Canton has expanded tokenized settlement activity Canton has also been used in transactions involving tokenized U.S. government securities. In July, Tradeweb said it executed an onchain U.S. Treasury trade in which Franklin Templeton transferred a tokenized Treasury security to Virtu Financial in exchange for tokenized cash.

Tradeweb provided execution and price discovery, while Canton synchronized settlement between the two assets in real time, according to the companies involved. Tradeweb described the transaction as the first real-time purchase and sale of a tokenized U.S. Treasury settled against USDCx, a USDC-backed stablecoin issued on Canton.

Societe Generale, Digital Asset and Blockdaemon also participated in the transaction. Societe Generale has separately deployed euro- and dollar-denominated stablecoins on Canton for uses including tokenized collateral, repo financing and institutional settlement.

Payment companies are testing the network as well. Visa tested private stablecoin settlement using Brale’s SBC token on Canton in June and has since included Canton among the blockchains supported by its stablecoin settlement program. A July report on Visa’s program said the settlement pilot supported nine blockchains and had reached a $7 billion annualized run rate by March.

Visa joined Canton as a Super Validator in March before adding the network to its stablecoin settlement work. The company received approval for its validator application that month and later added Canton to its stablecoin settlement pilot.

Digital Asset has raised capital for Canton expansion Institutional funding has accompanied the increase in activity around the network. Digital Asset, the company behind Canton, raised $355 million in June in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto fund.

A16z crypto contributed $100 million to the round, while other participants included Citadel Securities, Apollo, BNP Paribas, CME Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, HSBC, Optiver and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Digital Asset said the capital would support partnerships, acquisitions and expansion of the Canton ecosystem.

The funding followed a $135 million strategic round involving Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, DTCC, BNP Paribas and Tradeweb Markets. Digital Asset has positioned Canton for financial applications that require transaction privacy while allowing different institutions and applications to coordinate settlement.

Canton’s use in government-bond markets has continued in Asia. The MUFG repo proof of concept is examining Japanese government bonds in short-term financing transactions, while a separate Progmat working group has been studying tokenized JGBs, stablecoin settlement, T+0 processing and 24-hour access.

S&P Dow Jones Indices and Kaiko have also placed the iBoxx U.S. Treasuries index on Canton through smart-contract infrastructure, according to the Aug. 13 MUFG report. The index project sits alongside other Canton-based work involving tokenized Treasury products and institutional collateral.

Key Highlights Bitcoin maintained stability around $64,250 while the broader cryptocurrency market registered small increases on Wednesday Solana surged 2% to approach $77, outperforming other major digital assets, while ether climbed 1% to exceed $1,900 Korean semiconductor giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plummeted over 7%, sending the Kospi index tumbling more than 6% The Nasdaq composite declined 1.3% on Tuesday amid a semiconductor sector selloff that analysts attributed to market positioning Federal Reserve meeting minutes scheduled for release at 2 p.m. ET, with 94 of 104 surveyed economists projecting no rate change in September Bitcoin maintained its position near $64,250 throughout Wednesday trading, showing marginal daily gains and approximately 1% growth for the week. The cryptocurrency sector demonstrated resilience despite significant turbulence in global semiconductor markets.

Bitcoin (BTC) Price Among major digital currencies, Solana emerged as the top performer, advancing 2% to reach nearly $77. Ether posted a 1% increase to settle just above $1,900, claiming the leading position among major tokens with a 1.5% weekly gain.

XRP experienced an increase of nearly 1% to approach $1, despite recording a 2% decline over the past seven days. Tron and dogecoin both added 0.5%, trading at 33 cents and 7 cents respectively.

However, not every cryptocurrency posted gains. BNB edged lower to rest just above $600, marking a 2% weekly decline. Hyperliquid’s HYPE token decreased over 1% to settle just above $58, though it maintains the strongest seven-day performance among major tokens with a 7% advance.

Semiconductor Sector Experiences Sharp Decline In Seoul trading on Wednesday, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both tumbled more than 7%. These declines pushed Korea’s Kospi index down over 6% and contributed to a 2% drop in the MSCI Asia Pacific index.

A regional semiconductor benchmark declined more than 3%. This followed Tuesday’s 5% plunge in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, marking its steepest single-day loss since the end of July.

Stateside, the Nasdaq composite retreated 1.3% on Tuesday. The S&P 500 shed 0.7% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 116 points, representing a 0.2% decrease.

E-Mini S&P 500 Sep 26 (ES=F) Semiconductor-related stocks weighed heavily on broader market indices. Caterpillar and Goldman Sachs, both viewed as beneficiaries of artificial intelligence infrastructure spending, were among the Dow’s biggest detractors.

Mizuho analyst Daniel O’Regan suggested that limited summer trading volume likely amplified the price movements beyond what fundamental factors would warrant. He characterized the selloff as driven by portfolio repositioning rather than a fundamental reassessment of the artificial intelligence investment thesis.

Treasury Markets and Federal Reserve Outlook A worldwide government bond selloff drove 30-year U.S. Treasury yields to their highest point since 2007. Ten-year yields also climbed near levels not seen since the beginning of 2025, increasing financing costs for corporations investing in AI infrastructure.

Markets showed signs of stabilization by Wednesday. The 10-year yield declined roughly one basis point to 4.69%. The 30-year U.S. yield fell to 5.28% on Tuesday, ending a two-session streak of rising yields.

Gold advanced as much as 0.6% to surpass $4,360 per ounce following a nearly 2% decline in the prior session.

The Federal Reserve’s July meeting minutes are scheduled for release at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday. A Reuters poll revealed that 94 of 104 economists anticipate rates will remain unchanged at 3.50% to 3.75% in September. Market pricing suggests approximately 68% probability of no rate adjustment.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is set to deliver remarks at the Jackson Hole symposium during the upcoming week.

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With its short-term moving averages converging between $75 and $76, Solana is getting close to a potentially significant technical event that could be referred to as a "mini golden cross."

Solana's recovery potentialIf successful, it would be the first bullish crossover for these averages since 2025 and could bolster Solana's effort to find a bottom following months of weakness. SOL is trading at about $77 right now. The faster green moving average has risen to roughly $75.46, while the blue moving average is currently close to $76.32. 

SOL/USDT Chart by TradingViewAs Solana stabilizes after falling to $60 in June, their difference has significantly shrunk. A bullish crossover would indicate that the recent price momentum has finally improved to the point where the short-term trend structure can be changed. SOL's performance since July has increased the significance; rather than going back to the June lows, the asset has established a reasonably stable base around $70 to $75. 

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Moreover, momentum is increasing. The daily RSI has risen to roughly 57, well above the neutral 50 mark without going into overbought territory. This gives SOL potential for additional upside if buyers are able to overcome resistance. The positioning of derivatives is similarly optimistic. 

Key ratio for BinanceThe SOL/USDT long/short ratio on Binance is approximately 2.10, whereas it is approximately 2.02 on OKX. With a ratio of roughly 2.38, Binance's top traders are even more strongly inclined toward longs. Although excessive long concentration can also raise the risk of liquidation during abrupt reversals, this positioning supports bullish sentiment. 

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The first significant barrier is located almost exactly above the market, at $78.07, where SOL is confronted with an intermediate moving average. The mini golden cross setup would be strengthened and a move toward the $89 long-term moving average might begin if it broke and held above $78–$80. 

Nevertheless, the broader trend is still not bullish. While SOL is still about 38 percent lower so far this year, the black long-term average is still close to $89 and is still falling. The focus would return to $70 and possibly $65 if the crossover fails and SOL loses $75. 

For the time being, the developing cross does not indicate a new bull trend, but rather an early recovery signal. The signal would gain significantly more technical weight if it continued to move above $78–$80.

TLDR SOL trades around $76.91, with a smaller data point showing $75.55, up 0.20% in 24 hours. Trader Symba’s chart shows SOL forming a symmetrical triangle with RSI testing its own resistance trendline. CRG notes Solana is nearing a daily Ichimoku cloud reclaim, a level that has capped price since late 2025. CryptoGerla’s chart suggests SOL may be shifting from consolidation into a Wyckoff-style markup phase. The $80-$85 zone is the key hurdle; clearing it opens the door to $100 and then $120-$128. Solana is showing early signs of a possible recovery. Buyers appear to be stepping back into the market after a long stretch of weak price action.

Brave New Coin data puts SOL trading around $76.91. A separate snapshot from the same source shows the price at $75.55, up 0.20% over the past day.

Traders are watching a few technical signals closely right now. Together, they suggest the coin could be building toward a bigger move.

Chart Setups From Analysts Trader Symba shared a daily chart showing SOL compressed inside a symmetrical triangle. Price is squeezed between a descending trendline and an ascending one, nearing the triangle’s tip.

At the same time, RSI is testing its own resistance trendline. A breakout on both fronts could push short-term momentum higher.

Symba’s chart points to $80 as the next test if that breakout happens. A clean move above it would suggest buyers are starting to take control again.

Another analyst, CRG, flagged a different setup on X. CRG’s chart shows SOL sitting just under its daily Ichimoku cloud, a zone that has acted as a ceiling since late 2025.

A daily close above that cloud would mark a real shift in structure. CRG’s chart frames the $80-$85 area as the first real test after that happens.

If SOL clears it, the chart shows room to run toward $100 first, then further resistance beyond that.

A third trader, CryptoGerla, posted a chart applying Wyckoff theory to SOL’s recent price action. The idea is that Solana may have already worked through accumulation and manipulation phases.

CryptoGerla’s chart suggests the coin could now be entering a markup phase, following a long decline and drawn-out sideways period.

Levels Traders Are Watching If that markup phase plays out, the chart marks $80 as the first confirmation point. From there, targets move to the $100-$110 range and then up toward $128.

Solana Price on CoinGecko That $128 level lines up with older resistance from earlier in Solana’s price history. It sits well above where SOL trades today.

On the downside, the $70-$72 area is being treated as support. A failure to clear $80-$85 could send SOL back toward that zone instead.

For now, SOL remains below all three of these key markers: the triangle apex, the RSI trendline, and the daily cloud. Each one needs to break in the coin’s favor for the recovery case to hold up.

Price action over the next few sessions should show whether buyers can push through the $80-$85 wall. As of the latest data, SOL sits at $75.55, up 0.20% on the day.

In This Article Solana Price Prediction: ChatGPT AI Predicts Tokenized Equities Rewrite Solana's ReputationSolana Is Betting on Execution. Kalshi Lets Traders Bet on Whether the Catalysts Actually Deliver. Solana spent years being defined by memecoin volume, and $3.73B in tokenized real-world assets is starting to change that label. ChatGPT AI predicts that the shift carries price higher, and the price prediction targets $150 to $190 by the end of 2026, with $165 as a realistic base case.

Alpenglow is the strongest catalyst. Its rollout is progressing toward mainnet and targets sub-150ms finality.

That matters for latency-sensitive trading and payments. Those are the use cases where milliseconds decide whether a venue is viable.

Source: ChatGPT AI Solana Price Prediction The RWA number is the second pillar. Solana’s tokenized asset value hit $3.73B in July as tokenized equities expanded.

ChatGPT frames that as real network demand rather than speculation. It is the part of the thesis that does not depend on sentiment.

Morgan Stanley’s Solana ETF adds a third channel. The product can stake its SOL holdings, which creates capital demand and locks supply at the same time.

The bear case has two triggers. A failed Alpenglow rollout is the first.

Weakening on-chain activity is the second. Either could send SOL toward $50 to $60, while the bullish scenario points to $175 by year-end.

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Solana Price Prediction: ChatGPT AI Predicts Tokenized Equities Rewrite Solana’s Reputation The weekly chart shows two full cycles. SOL climbed from $20 in 2023 to a peak near $293 by January 2025.

A second run reached $255 in September 2025. That marked the top before the trend turned decisively.

Early 2026 broke the structure, cutting the price from $145 toward $80. The decline continued through spring to a low near $61.

Source: Solana Price / Tradingview Recent weeks have stabilized. Price has ground slowly higher and now sits in the upper $70s.

The weekly close reads $77.15, up 3.50% and $2.61. The weekly range covered $74.36 to $77.39.

Support sits at $74, then $68 and $61 at the spring low. Resistance appears at $90, then $100, and $120.

RSI reads 42.06 with its signal line below at 38.21. The oscillator leads by nearly 4 points, a constructive crossover from depressed levels.

Both lines remain under the midline. Momentum is turning up, but no trend reversal has been confirmed yet.

ChatGPT’s base case needs more than double from here. Alpenglow reaching mainnet is the event that would justify the market repricing it.

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Solana Is Betting on Execution. Kalshi Lets Traders Bet on Whether the Catalysts Actually Deliver. The Solana thesis now has something traders can measure: Alpenglow reaches mainnet, tokenized assets keep growing, and institutional products continue pulling SOL out of circulation.

Kalshi is built around that same event-driven mindset.

Rather than taking exposure to every variable affecting SOL, users can trade directly on real-world outcomes across crypto, politics, economic data, Fed decisions, and other events that can move markets. That makes it useful when the thesis comes down to whether a specific milestone happens, not simply whether a token looks cheap.

For Solana, the difference is important. A successful Alpenglow rollout could strengthen the entire valuation case. A delay or failure changes it immediately.

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Six out of every ten traders on Solana in a given week have been there before. Returning traders now account for 61% of weekly activity on the network, a retention level the blockchain hasn’t touched since June 2024.

Why retention matters more than raw growth Retention is the harder metric to game. When 61% of weekly traders are people who’ve already used the network before, it suggests the experience is compelling enough to bring them back.

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The fact that 61% is the highest level since June 2024 also matters for context. Mid-2024 was a period of heightened activity across crypto markets, driven by Bitcoin ETF inflows and broader risk-on sentiment. Matching that retention benchmark now suggests Solana’s engaged user base has solidified rather than faded alongside shifting market conditions.

What’s keeping traders on Solana Speed and cost remain Solana’s core selling points. Transactions settle in roughly 400 milliseconds, and fees typically run a fraction of a cent. For active traders who might execute dozens of transactions per day, those economics add up fast.

The competitive implications For SOL’s market positioning, sustained retention carries tangible implications. Higher retention typically correlates with more consistent transaction volume, which drives fee revenue for validators and contributes to the network’s economic sustainability. It also supports deeper liquidity pools across DeFi protocols, which in turn improves execution quality for traders.

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Solana’s DeFi sector has reportedly retained its total value locked (TVL) more effectively than Ethereum’s, with Jupiter Lend emerging as a key growth driver. According to social media reports, Jupiter Lend is expanding rapidly within the Solana ecosystem, positioning itself to become the largest lending protocol on the network. The reported increase in TVL and activity could indicate a growing preference for Solana’s DeFi offerings over those on Ethereum. This development comes as Solana’s overall DeFi TVL was noted around $5.49 billion in April 2026, with Jupiter Lend playing a significant role in this concentration of liquidity.

Market participants appear to interpret these developments as supportive of a stronger Solana ecosystem, potentially impacting its price positively. However, the source of this information originates from a Tier 3 social media account, which may limit its immediate market influence. Nonetheless, the growth trajectory of Jupiter Lend and the overall retention of TVL in Solana DeFi could suggest ongoing interest and investment in the network’s projects.

Key Takeaways Solana’s DeFi sector appears to have retained TVL more effectively than Ethereum, with Jupiter Lend contributing significantly to this trend. Market pricing suggests that participants view the growth and expansion of Jupiter Lend as supportive of a positive outlook for Solana’s ecosystem. The source’s Tier 3 classification implies limited immediate impact on market movements, despite the potentially positive news. What to Watch Key actors in the Solana ecosystem, including Solana Labs and the Solana Foundation, may drive further developments. Observers should monitor any updates related to Solana’s network performance, particularly concerning the Agave/Firedancer upgrades. Additionally, any institutional moves, such as ETF approvals or rejections, could influence market pricing for Solana. Developments in the broader DeFi landscape, especially those affecting Ethereum, may also impact Solana’s competitive position.

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Jurassic Finance has launched a fundraising campaign to tokenize Deaton, a museum-grade Triceratops prorsus skull, on Solana. The project aims to raise $660,000 in $USDC to acquire the fossil and create a tokenized ownership structure around the specimen.

The raise went live on August 17 at 4 pm ET and attracted almost $300,000 within the first 30 minutes. Jurassic Finance CEO Aleksandar Pavlovic celebrated the early response in a post on X, writing, “Almost $300k in the first 30 minutes”

At the time of writing, the campaign had raised $365,499, representing 55% of the target.

Jurassic Finance first revealed plans for Deaton in June, describing it as the first Triceratops skull coming exclusively to Solana through its platform. The specimen features 60% to 65% complete bone mass, all 3 original horns, and remains from the Hell Creek Formation in Slope County, North Dakota. Scientists estimate the skull dates back around 66 million years to the Late Cretaceous period.

Turning Fossils into Tokenized RWAs Jurassic Finance uses a structure where each fossil receives its own Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV). The SPV legally holds the specimen, while the project issues a dedicated SPL token on Solana that represents economic and legal rights connected to that asset.

For Deaton, the token will carry the ticker $TRCH1. The project plans to fractionalize ownership, allowing multiple participants to gain exposure to a high-value collectible that would normally require a single buyer.

The process follows 5 main steps:

Jurassic Finance sources and acquires authenticated fossils through dealers, private collections, and auctions.

Each specimen receives a dedicated SPV that establishes legal ownership.

The SPV issues a token on Solana representing contractual ownership rights.

Museums display the fossils while handling custody, insurance, maintenance, and storage.

Token holders retain economic exposure to the asset.

Jurassic Finance says museums benefit from access to rare specimens for public display, while token holders gain exposure to potential appreciation and future economic activity.

Fossils Enter the Broader RWA Debate The project reflects a growing push to bring unusual assets onchain. Real-world asset tokenization has expanded beyond traditional categories such as real estate and bonds into collectibles, luxury goods, and other alternative assets.

Museum-grade fossils represent a niche but valuable market. Some dinosaur specimens have reached tens of millions of dollars at auction. Apex, a Stegosaurus specimen, sold for $44.6 million in 2024, while Gus the T-Rex sold for $50.1 million in 2026.

Jurassic Finance argues that the traditional fossil market remains difficult for smaller participants because ownership often requires buying an entire specimen. The project believes tokenization can create broader access, improve liquidity, and allow more people to participate in collectible markets.

Solana’s Exotic Asset Push Expands Solana Foundation Chief Product Officer Vibhu Norby recently highlighted the growth of exotic and long-tail asset markets on Solana, pointing to tokenized collectibles involving items such as trading cards, luxury goods, watches, fossils, tickets, and other alternative assets.

Norby argued that blockchain markets could improve discovery, liquidity, price transparency, and fractional ownership across categories that previously relied on private sales or specialized auctions.

Jurassic Finance’s Deaton campaign represents one of the more unusual experiments in this trend. Instead of tokenizing a financial instrument or traditional commodity, the project is testing whether a 66 million-year-old fossil can become part of a digital ownership economy.

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Interstice Digital has launched a cross-chain swap engine with FalconX connecting the Canton Network with Ethereum, Solana and Robinhood Chain. 

According to Tuesday’s announcement, the non-custodial engine allows assets to be swapped across the four networks without Interstice taking custody or executing transactions on users’ behalf. 

FalconX, a digital asset prime brokerage serving institutional investors, provides liquidity for the engine, which is designed to connect Canton’s institutional markets with assets and trading activity on public blockchains, giving users a route between tokenized assets on Canton and liquidity on networks such as Ethereum and Solana.

Canton is a public blockchain built for institutional finance, with privacy and permissioning controls designed for regulated transactions and tokenized assets. Its ecosystem includes major financial institutions such as JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas.

Interstice is a wholly owned subsidiary of Everyrealm and is backed by investors including a16z Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy and Brevan Howard. The company did not disclose which assets are initially supported or provide transaction volume figures for the swap engine.

Canton expands institutional tokenization activityThe integration comes as more traditional financial institutions use Canton for tokenized assets and blockchain-based settlement.

In July, electronic trading platform Tradeweb executed an onchain US Treasury trade in which Franklin Templeton transferred a tokenized Treasury security to Virtu Financial in exchange for tokenized cash.

Tradeweb provided execution and price discovery, while Canton synchronized settlement between the two assets in real time. Tradeweb said it was the first real-time purchase and sale of a tokenized US Treasury settled against USDCx, a USDC-backed stablecoin issued on Canton, with other participants including Societe Generale, Digital Asset and Blockdaemon.

Societe Generale has also deployed its euro- and dollar-denominated stablecoins on Canton for tokenized collateral, repo financing and institutional settlement, while Visa has tested private stablecoin settlement on the network.

Other initiatives include a Japanese government bond collateral pilot involving Mizuho and Nomura and S&P Dow Jones Indices placing its iBoxx US Treasuries Index on Canton.

PoC trial for digital collateral management using Japanese government bonds. Source: JPX

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Interstice Digital has introduced a Cross-Chain Swap Engine with FalconX that enables non-custodial swaps between Solana, Robinhood Chain, Ethereum and the Canton Network. The engine uses infrastructure and compliance services from Trulioo, TRM Labs, CertiK, Canton Strategic Holdings and MPCH.

The system is aimed at bridging Canton’s institutional capital markets infrastructure with some of the largest pools of retail and digital asset liquidity, while giving users a way to move assets across ecosystems without relying on a custodial intermediary.

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The engine has also been selected as a Featured App on Canton. With it, Interstice wants to address a key challenge as institutional adoption of digital assets expands: moving capital between otherwise separate blockchain ecosystems efficiently.

The connected networks bring substantial existing activity to the platform. Robinhood Chain has reached 100 million transactions faster than any other EVM network and now serves 28 million funded accounts holding $369 billion in total platform assets.

Solana recorded a record 167 million monthly active addresses in April 2026 and $650 billion in monthly stablecoin transaction volume in February, while Ethereum continues to underpin a large developer ecosystem and serves as the base layer for Robinhood Chain.

Interstice CEO Janine Yorio said the company built the engine to connect these networks with Canton, which Interstice says processes more than $9 trillion in monthly tokenized real-world asset flows.

FalconX Head of Trading Strategy Hassan Bassiri said the infrastructure could help meet growing institutional demand for seamless movement of capital between digital asset ecosystems.

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Crypto Analyst: Kaito’s New Product Pulse Plugin Engages in Multiple Deep Data Collection Practices.

Ultra points out that Kaito Pulse uses hashing to fingerprint users’ GPU rendering, hardware models, and hardware test sounds, binding this unique combination to their X account. The tool can also capture users’ full browsing history, feed hover times, clicks, and follow status, sending heartbeat packets with activity detection every 30 seconds. Additionally, it can read Claude and ChatGPT subscription plans and their usage ratios, automatically click to access ChatGPT’s Usage page, and automatically navigate to Binance’s Positions tab, re-sending login requests to retrieve wallet balances, futures positions, profit and loss, and deposit/withdrawal history. Kaito AI announced yesterday its new browser extension product Kaito Pulse, which aims to bring off-platform activities directly into the native X timeline.

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Unitree’s shares surged 486% in half a day of trading after its listing, while China’s ChiNext Index fell nearly 5% and the STAR 50 Index dropped more than 6%.

Today, Unitree Robotics went public, with its share price surging 486.12% in the morning session and trading volume exceeding 17.7 billion yuan. However, likely due to adjustments in overseas markets, the three major A-share indices opened lower and trended downward in the morning. As of midday close, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.96%, the Shenzhen Component Index dropped 3.97%, the ChiNext Index declined 4.98%, and the STAR 50 Index slid 6.07%. The combined trading volume of Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses in the morning session reached 1.62 trillion yuan, down 18.2 billion yuan from the previous trading day. Over 4,900 stocks across the market declined. On the market front, the humanoid robot concept sector slumped: Shangwei New Materials fell 18.75%, and more than 20 stocks including Jiangsu Beiren, Phoenix Precision, Leader Tech, and Changsheng Bearing dropped over 10%. The MLCC concept, CPO concept, and memory chip sectors led the declines, with multiple stocks including Shengke Communication, VeriSilicon, Sino-Giant, Xice Testing, ACM Research Shanghai, and Hua Hong Semiconductor falling more than 10%.

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According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), two multi-sig addresses linked to the Ondo team have deposited tokens worth $4.42 million into Coinbase over the past 10 hours. The addresses have allegedly sold $29.94 million worth of ONDO over the last 30 days, and currently still hold $12.68 million worth of ONDO on-chain.

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Securitize has launched a tokenized fixed-income fund managed with Neuberger that will invest mainly in high-yield bonds and issue interests across Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, and Sui.

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HINC will invest primarily in high-yield bonds, alongside CLOs and leveraged loans. Neuberger will serve as subadvisor in its first engagement with a tokenized fund. Eligible accredited investors and qualified purchasers can access the fund after completing required compliance checks. Securitize affiliates will handle investment advice, distribution, tokenization, and fund administration. Securitize said in an Aug. 18 announcement that the Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund, trading under the ticker HINC, will seek risk-adjusted returns from a portfolio of income-producing fixed-income assets.

Along with high-yield bonds, the mandate permits investments in collateralized loan obligations and leveraged loans. Neuberger will manage the portfolio as subadvisor, drawing on a fixed-income business overseeing more than $230 billion in assets.

Securitize Capital LLC serves as the investment adviser, while Securitize Markets LLC will offer fund interests to eligible investors. Other affiliates of the tokenization company will handle administration and operational services.

HINC brings a high-yield strategy to four blockchains HINC will issue tokenized interests on Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, and Sui, giving eligible investors four networks through which to access the fund.

Although the fund’s interests are represented on public blockchains, participation will remain restricted. Investors must qualify as accredited investors or qualified purchasers and complete Securitize’s onboarding process, including know-your-customer and anti-money laundering checks.

Access will also depend on an investor’s jurisdiction and applicable securities laws. As a result, the tokens will not be freely available to every wallet user in the same way as an unrestricted cryptocurrency.

Carlos Domingo, co-founder and CEO of Securitize, said the fund places Neuberger’s fixed-income capabilities on public blockchains through the company’s regulated infrastructure.

“Launching HINC across Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Sui gives eligible investors access through four leading blockchain network.”

Neuberger’s role is limited to serving as the fund’s subadvisor, while Securitize’s entities retain the other advisory, distribution, and administrative duties outlined in the announcement.

For Neuberger, HINC represents its first role as subadvisor to a tokenized fund. The asset manager will apply its research and portfolio-management process to the underlying fixed-income investments rather than manage the blockchain infrastructure.

Neuberger will manage the underlying fixed-income portfolio Neuberger manages approximately $613 billion across equities, fixed income, private markets, real estate, and hedge fund portfolios, based on company data as of June 30. Its fixed-income platform accounts for more than $230 billion of that total.

Anil Abraham, Neuberger’s head of product management, said the firm has developed its fixed-income operation through several market cycles using research-led and diversified strategies.

“We are pleased to work with Securitize to extend our process-driven, actively managed approach to qualified investors looking to access fixed income strategies on-chain,” Abraham said.

Tokenization changes how investors hold and transact in fund interests, but the announced investment mandate remains centered on conventional credit instruments. High-yield bonds generally refer to corporate debt carrying ratings below investment grade, while leveraged loans are commonly issued by companies with elevated debt levels.

Collateralized loan obligations, another permitted part of HINC’s portfolio, pool corporate loans and divide their cash flows among different groups of investors. The announcement did not state how much of HINC would be allocated to bonds, CLOs, or leveraged loans.

A comparable institutional product entered the market in July when Centrifuge and New York Life Investment Management introduced a tokenized U.S. high-yield corporate bond strategy. According to a report on NYLIM’s fund, subscriptions and redemptions for the HYB product settle in USDC, while NYLIM retains responsibility for portfolio management and risk controls.

Unlike that single-chain arrangement, Securitize has chosen four networks for HINC at launch. The release did not specify whether subscriptions and redemptions would settle in dollars, stablecoins or both.

Securitize expands its tokenized fund lineup Securitize reported more than $4 billion in assets on its tokenization platform as of April. The company also works with asset managers including Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and VanEck.

Earlier in August, BlackRock launched two tokenized funds holding cash, short-term U.S. government debt, and Treasury-backed repurchase agreements. Securitize acts as a transfer agent and tokenization provider for the products, according to the coverage of the funds.

HINC differs from cash and Treasury products because it takes exposure to lower-rated corporate debt and other credit assets. The fund’s return profile and risk will therefore depend on the performance of its underlying portfolio rather than the blockchain used to record ownership.

Recent figures also point to rising use of blockchains for conventional financial assets. A May report based on InvestaX data placed the tokenized RWA market excluding stablecoins at about $29 billion at the end of March, following approximately 30% growth during the first quarter.

Alongside third-party funds, Securitize placed its own publicly traded shares on Solana and Avalanche when the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in July. The tokenized SECZ shares represent the same common stock as the exchange-listed securities rather than a separate share class, crypto.news reported at the time.

U.S. access remains subject to securities requirements In the United States, Securitize Markets operates as a broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and runs an alternative trading system. Securitize Transfer Agent is also registered with the SEC, while Securitize Capital operates as an exempt reporting adviser, according to the company.

Those entities divide the responsibilities connected to HINC. Securitize Capital advises the fund, Securitize Markets offers its interests, and affiliated businesses provide tokenization and administrative services.

The fund’s availability to accredited investors and qualified purchasers places eligibility checks before blockchain access. Prospective investors must also pass KYC and AML screening and meet any restrictions tied to where they live.

Outside the United States, Securitize operates through Securitize Europe Brokerage and Markets, an authorized investment firm that runs a trading and settlement system under the European Union’s DLT Pilot Regime.

Founded in 1939, Neuberger remains privately held and employee-owned, with no corporate parent or unaffiliated external shareholders. The investment manager employs about 3,000 people across 26 countries and manages portfolios for institutions, financial advisers, and individual clients.

Ansem Unveils z500, a New Onchain Index for Token LaunchesCrypto trader Ansem (@blknoiz06) has launched z500 and an accompanying platform, ansem(.)io, designed to bring a more transparent structure to new token launches on Solana. The index connects token teams with holders by letting projects signal long-term alignment publicly, sidestepping the opaque backroom deals that have become common in the memecoin space.

z500 is built as the first onchain index of its kind. Through ansem(.)io, participating teams airdrop a slice of their new token supply to existing ANSEM holders, then optionally buy and burn more ANSEM to climb the z500 leaderboard. Projects launching on the platform must hand at least 3% of their supply to ANSEM holders, with Gold and Diamond tier launches also requiring upfront ANSEM burns to rank higher.

Teams launch tokens on Pumpfun via dedicated launch wallets funded for community airdrops and gas. Projects can pay a one-time fee to unlock enhanced token pages, including banners, roadmaps, and updates, and can reach Gold or Diamond status by burning ANSEM, with project metrics tracked onchain and visible on Solscan.

Ansem frames the model as a direct alternative to standard influencer marketing. Rather than teams paying privately for attention, the structure lets projects market to him in a way that benefits the ANSEM community directly, while gamifying the experience so the best teams can be identified and rewarded.

Bull's Eye $EYE Becomes the First GraduateThe model's early impact was demonstrated sharply by the Bull's Eye memecoin (solana:RmtMAYVTTFv2iK9muMrXEoAnSSsZPPgRPbqZCKwNDYk). The token surged roughly 200,000% after its launch, reaching a market capitalization of approximately $4.5 million, and has since been cited as the first token to graduate from the z500 launchpad.

$ANSEM itself is a community-driven memecoin on the Solana blockchain, built around the persona of prominent trader Ansem and designed to capture attention as a cultural asset while developing a unique ecosystem. The dominant version ran from a market cap in the tens of thousands to tens of millions of dollars within roughly 10 to 12 days in mid-to-late June 2026.

As with all memecoins, risks are significant. Memecoins on Solana can surge hundreds of percent in hours and collapse just as quickly, since their value is tied almost entirely to social media sentiment rather than any underlying business or technology. Memecoins are highly speculative assets. Always do your own research and never invest more than you can afford to lose.

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For the better part of a year, Jupiter was the undisputed routing king of Solana’s decentralized exchange landscape. That reign just got a lot more contested.

Jupiter’s share of daily routed aggregator volume on Solana dropped to 48.9%, marking the first time the platform has fallen below the 50% threshold. Meanwhile, OKX hit a daily record of 31.3%, a figure that would have seemed implausible just a few months ago when Jupiter was commanding north of 80% of the flow.

The numbers behind the shift Until mid-2026, Jupiter held over 80% of stablecoin routing share and above 90% of broader DEX aggregation on Solana.

The current daily breakdown tells a different story. OKX captured 31.3% of routed volume, dflow took 16%, and Titan grabbed roughly 4%. Jupiter still led the pack, but only barely, at 48.9%.

On a monthly basis, Jupiter still holds over 70% aggregator market share. Daily snapshots can be volatile, driven by large trades or promotional activity from competitors.

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For historical perspective, Jupiter processed more than 1.4 billion swaps valued at approximately $80B during Q2 2025.

Why OKX is gaining ground OKX’s surge isn’t accidental. The exchange built what it calls the X Routing engine, a DAG-based (directed acyclic graph) routing system designed to find optimal trade paths across fragmented liquidity pools.

OKX also benefits from a distribution advantage as a centralized exchange with millions of existing users, allowing it to funnel its user base directly into Solana DEX trading without those users ever touching Jupiter’s front-end.

Dflow, which captured 16% of daily volume, takes an auction-based approach focused on MEV protection, shielding traders from value extraction that occurs when bots front-run or sandwich transactions.

Jupiter’s response and the meta-aggregator play Around October 2025, Jupiter launched Iris, a meta-aggregator designed to route trades through competing aggregators when they offer better execution.

By integrating rival routes, Jupiter can maintain its position as the default front-end for Solana traders even if the actual execution happens through OKX’s engine or dflow’s auction system. But meta-aggregation introduces its own challenges: if Jupiter is routing through OKX anyway, traders might start asking why they need the extra layer. Jupiter’s graph-based routing engine needs to prove it adds value beyond simply being the incumbent default.

What this means for Solana’s DeFi ecosystem Ethereum saw a comparable pattern with DEX aggregators like 1inch, Paraswap, and CowSwap competing for share over several years. Solana is running through that same cycle on a compressed timeline.

The JUP token, tied to Jupiter’s governance and fee accrual, faces a nuanced outlook. Monthly dominance above 70% provides a floor, but if daily share continues trending toward 40% or lower, monthly figures will eventually follow.

OKX, as a centralized exchange, doesn’t have a DEX-native token tied to its Solana routing performance. OKX can subsidize routing through its broader exchange revenue, while Jupiter needs routing volume to justify its valuation.

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Compliance-focused, non-custodial swap connects Canton, Robinhood Chain, Solana, and Ethereum; named a Featured App on the Canton Network

, /PRNewswire/ -- Interstice Digital today announced the launch of the Cross-Chain Swap Engine in partnership with FalconX, a leading digital asset prime brokerage. The non-custodial swap engine connects Solana, Robinhood Chain, and Ethereum to the Canton Network — the only public, permissionless blockchain purpose-built for capital markets. The non-custodial swap engine has also been named a Featured App on Canton.

The Interstice Digital cross-chain swap engine opens a direct path between Canton's institutional-grade market infrastructure and the largest pools of retail liquidity in digital assets:

Robinhood reached 100 million transactions faster than any other EVM network and now serves 28 million funded accounts with $369 billion in total platform assets. Solana recorded 167 million monthly active addresses in April 2026, an all-time high, and $650 billion in stablecoin transaction volume in February 2026, the highest monthly figure ever recorded on any blockchain. Ethereum remains the deepest developer ecosystem in the industry and the base layer underpinning Robinhood Chain itself. "We built the cross-chain swap engine to help connect Solana, Ethereum, and Robinhood Chain to the growing Canton ecosystem where over $9T in tokenized RWA flow monthly" says Janine Yorio, CEO of Interstice Digital.

"As institutional demand for digital assets grows, the firms that win will be the ones who can move capital across ecosystems without friction. The cross-chain swap engine we've developed with Interstice Digital is exactly the kind of infrastructure this market needs," says Hassan Bassiri, Head of Trading Strategy at FalconX.

Built with Leading Infrastructure Partners

The Cross-Chain Swap Engine is powered by established blockchain infrastructure and compliance providers including Trulioo, TRM Labs, CertiK, Canton Strategic Holdings and MPCH.

For more information, visit www.intersticedigital.io

Interstice Digital provides non-custodial infrastructure only. Quotes are provided independently by counterparties and Interstice does not take custody of assets or execute transactions on behalf of users.

About Interstice Digital

Interstice Digital is a U.S.-based digital asset infrastructure company building compliant payment and settlement solutions for compliance-minded organizations. Interstice Digital is a wholly owned subsidiary of Everyrealm Inc., backed by a16z Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed, Galaxy, Brevan Howard, and Liberty City Ventures. For more information, visit intersticedigital.io.

About FalconX

FalconX is a leading digital asset prime brokerage for the world's top institutions. We provide comprehensive access to global digital asset liquidity and a full range of trading services. Our 24/7 dedicated team for account, operational and trading needs enables investors to navigate markets around the clock. FalconX Bravo, Inc., a FalconX affiliate, was the first CFTC-registered swap dealer focused on cryptocurrency derivatives.

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