{"id":11331,"date":"2025-02-04T18:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11331"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:17:02","slug":"sol-strategies-bolsters-solana-holdings-to-near-190000-sol-worth-more-than-40m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11331","title":{"rendered":"Sol Strategies Bolsters Solana Holdings to Near 190,000 SOL Worth More Than $40M"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Solana-focused Canadian investment company Sol Strategies purchased 40,300 SOL between Jan. 19 and Jan. 31, for approximately $9.9 million at an average price of $246.53 per token.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto-based company, which runs three mainnet Solana validators, said that it now holds 189,968 SOL worth roughly $40.89 million purchased at an average price of C$256.21 per SOL, or around US$178.39 per token, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfilecorp.com\/release\/239380\/Sol-Strategies-Reports-Strong-Validator-Growth-Expansion-of-SOL-Holdings-and-Resignation-of-Director\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the firm, which has submitted an application to list on the Nasdaq, sold $2.5 million of convertible debentures to add an additional 6,564.57 SOL at an average price of $265.65 per token. Solana price, at the time of writing, was trading at $215 after losing more than 8.5% of its value over the past week amid a wider cryptocurrency market downturn.<\/p>\n<p>Sol Strategies, formerly known as Cypherpunk Holdings, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/07\/09\/ex-valkyrie-ceo-leah-wald-to-take-reins-of-crypto-investment-firm-cypherpunk\" target=\"_blank\">led<\/a> by former Valkyrie Investments co-founder Leah Wald. It has acquired validators not only on Solana but also on Sui (SUI), Monad (MONAD), and ARCH (ARCH). Validators process transactions to help secure Proof-of-Stake blockchains by staking certain amounts of these networks\u2019 cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, Sol Strategies also holds 3.168 BTC worth $315,800 at the time of writing as it shifted its investment strategy from accumulating BTC to SOL.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2024\/11\/05\/its-so-early-how-solana-is-competing-with-ethereum-for-institutional-interest\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018It\u2019s So Early\u2019: How Solana Is Competing With Ethereum for Institutional Interest<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solana-focused Canadian investment company Sol Strategies purchased 40,300 SOL between Jan. 19 and Jan. 31, for approximately $9.9 million at an average price of $246.53 per token. The Toronto-based company, which runs three mainnet Solana validators, said that it now holds 189,968 SOL worth roughly $40.89 million purchased at an average price of C$256.21 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-11331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}