Solana

CryptoRank datasets published on June 12 indicate crypto fundraising is moving toward fewer, larger late-stage checks and weaker token reactions. Over the last 12 months, Solana-led public fundraising totaled $884M versus Ethereum's $529M, while Series B+ and Strategic funding reached $6.47B in 2026 YTD across 139 rounds. CryptoRank also tracked five live-token projects raising in the past two weeks, with four of five tokens trading below their round-date prices.

On 12 June 2026, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu said on CNBC that crypto’s key value is always-on financial access for anyone with an internet connection, which she framed as a potential market of 5.5 billion users. Her comments came as SOL traded at $67.21, about 33% below its 200-day average of $100.43, while the network hosted tokenized exposure tied to SpaceX’s Nasdaq debut priced at $135 per share and valued near $1.75 trillion.

Crypto prices firmed on Thursday after Wednesday's inflation data showed core pressures easing, with bitcoin up about 1.9% in 24 hours to roughly $62,600. Over the past seven days, BTC was down less than 1% while several large caps stayed lower, including ether down about 6.5% to around $1,651 and solana down 7.4% near $65. Traders are also looking ahead to the Fed's June 17 meeting, where markets expect no rate change.

CME Group began trading Nasdaq CME Crypto Index futures on June 9, introducing a regulated product designed to provide broad crypto exposure. The cash-settled contracts reference a Nasdaq-CME benchmark that includes eight assets such as bitcoin, ether, solana and XRP, allowing investors to hedge diversified positions without holding the tokens directly.

Raydium said it will cover losses after an attacker drained about $1.34 million from five deprecated liquidity pools tied to its legacy AMM V3 program that has been phased out since 2021. The team said current users and active pools were not impacted, and stated reimbursement will be paid from Raydium's treasury while it reviews mainnet programs for vulnerabilities.

Raydium said Wednesday that its retired AMM V3 program was exploited for $1.34 million on Solana. The DEX reported losses of about 150,000 RAY, 5,600 SOL, and nearly 900,000 USDC from pools including RAY-SOL, USDC-RAY, and SRM-RAY. Raydium said the issue stemmed from insufficient validation of LP mints, while stating its current programs were not impacted.

Solana (SOL) dropped to around $60 earlier this month and was trading near $63 at the time of writing, down 33% on the month with market cap below $40 billion. The TD Sequential indicator has printed a buy signal and is being interpreted as room for a move toward $77, while the daily RSI reportedly fell to about 15—an extreme oversold reading that some view as setting up a rebound.

Shotgun.fun said it launched in New York on June 10, 2026, positioning itself as a trading terminal that can return up to 100% of trading fees to users, starting at 50% and increasing with volume tiers. The platform says it is non-custodial and secured through Turnkey, and it is debuting with Solana support while planning additional chains and agentic trading features.

Mastercard said on Tuesday it introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a protocol meant to let AI agents send, receive, and settle payments across its global card network, including sub-cent microtransactions. The company says more than 30 firms such as Stripe, Coinbase, and Cloudflare are early partners, with agent permissions recorded on Polygon, Solana, and Base. Executives described AP4M as a longer-term push into machine-to-machine commerce rather than a near-term revenue driver.

On June 9, XRP spot ETFs posted $7.44 million in net inflows, topping Solana’s roughly $794,000 while Bitcoin and Ethereum spot products logged $77.44 million and $40.85 million in outflows. Despite the flow advantage, XRP traded near $1.11 after losing the $1.28–$1.30 support area, keeping the chart technically weak even as ETF demand persisted.