Solana (SOL) has fallen about 12% over the past week, marking the worst performance among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap. This decline is driven by a combination of macroeconomic uncertainty and significant selling from large holders, including a five-year staker unloading $137.7 million worth of SOL and a two-year holder taking losses. Additionally, the meme coin launchpad Pump.fun resumed selling after a nine-month pause, offloading millions in SOL. Institutional investors also exited, with Goldman Sachs fully exiting its Solana ETF position in Q1 2026. These factors have intensified bearish sentiment amid a broader crypto market downturn.
A long-term Solana holder who staked nearly a million SOL tokens five years ago has sold over $137 million worth of SOL since 2025, recently offloading 30,000 SOL for $2.56 million. Despite these sales, the holder still has 381,140 SOL valued at $32....
The SEC is preparing an innovation exemption to allow tokenized equities to trade on decentralized platforms, accelerating growth in tokenized assets. Solana is benefiting from this trend, with a 43% quarterly increase in tokenized asset value and st...
Solana generated $342.2 million in Chain GDP in Q1 2026, led by the PumpFun app with $124.7 million revenue. Its real-world asset (RWA) market cap rose 43% to $2.01 billion, reflecting growing tokenized asset use on the network. The upcoming Alpenglo...
Institutional investors sold $1.07 billion in Bitcoin and other crypto assets in one week, marking the first outflow after seven weeks of inflows and the third-largest weekly outflow this year. Bitcoin led the sell-off with $982 million withdrawn, wh...
Bitcoin fell below $77,000 after four days of losses, pressured by Iran's new "Hormuz Safe" system requiring $2 million in Bitcoin for Strait of Hormuz passage and over $1 billion withdrawn from crypto funds last week. Rising oil prices and inflation...
