{"id":21105,"date":"2025-04-08T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21105"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:00:51","slug":"ex-valkyrie-ceo-leah-walds-sol-strategies-bought-24000-sol-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21105","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald\u2019s SOL Strategies Bought 24,000 SOL in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>SOL Strategies (HODL), a Canadian company running infrastructure on the Solana network, revealed it acquired 24,000 SOL tokens in March at an average cost of about C$199 ($139.8) each. The purchase, worth around $3.37 million, brought the firm\u2019s total SOL holdings to 267,151 tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of the company\u2019s SOL\u2014roughly 265,295 tokens\u2014are now staked across four validators that it operates, according to its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/solstrategies.io\/sol-strategies-provides-monthly-operational-update-march-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">operational update<\/a>. Since early March, the company\u2019s share price plunged roughly 25% while SOL dropped 27% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the Trump presidency, SOL Strategies\u2019 stock is down 67%, while Solana has fallen 58%.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Leah Wald, a former Valkyrie Investments co-founder, SOL Strategies has been aggressively expanding its validator infrastructure, not just on Solana but also on other Proof-of-Stake chains, including Sui (SUI), Monad (MONAD) and ARCH (ARCH). Validators secure these networks by staking their respective tokens and processing transactions, earning rewards in return.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the firm acquired three validator nodes, including one from Laine and the analytics platform Stakewiz, for roughly $24.5 million. That deal more than doubled the amount of SOL staked on the company&#8217;s infrastructure\u2014from 1.66 million to over 3.35 million tokens.<\/p>\n<p>The company also owns 3.211 bitcoin, though it remains focused on the Solana ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOL Strategies (HODL), a Canadian company running infrastructure on the Solana network, revealed it acquired 24,000 SOL tokens in March at an average cost of about C$199 ($139.8) each. The purchase, worth around $3.37 million, brought the firm\u2019s total SOL holdings to 267,151 tokens. Nearly all of the company\u2019s SOL\u2014roughly 265,295 tokens\u2014are now staked across [&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-21105","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\/21105","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=21105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}