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Janover triples down on solana buying spree

AI-powered commercial real estate company Janover is not wasting time on increasing its Solana bet. On April 15, the company purchased 80,567 solana for approximately $10.5 million.

Solana, with a $69 billion market cap, is the seventh-largest crypto. It’s also the biggest crypto gainer in the past 24 hours, up more than 6%. Meanwhile, bitcoin and most of the asset class is flat this morning.

This represents the company’s third acquisition since it announced its Strategy-like digital asset treasury strategy on April 7. It previously purchased $4.6 billion of solana on April 10 and 44,158 solana for approximately $5 million on April 11. Janover now holds 163,651.7 solana, valued at approximately $21.2 million.

CEO Joseph Onorati said earlier in April that the company’s move emulates Strategy’s approach, but argued, “Solana is even better suited for this than bitcoin is.”  

Onorati told Sherwood News:

“The tech stack is performant and scalable, the ecosystem is thriving, and the yield, reflexivity, and volatility all work in our favor. At ~4% the market cap of bitcoin, there’s just a ton of upside we can capture.”

Janover “will begin staking solana immediately, generating revenue while supporting the solana network.” 

“Solana’s volatility is an opportunity rather than a flaw, while the ability to stake solana makes it a perfect complement to bitcoin. This distinction is particularly interesting because it highlights the need to diversify corporate treasuries beyond bitcoin,” Chris Chung, founder of solana-based swap platform Titan, said.

In addition, yesterday Janover announced it had partnered with crypto infrastructure provider BitGo “to accelerate the Company’s Solana accumulation strategy.”

This announcement follows the company’s strategic partnership with crypto exchange Kraken, announced on April 15, in which “Kraken plans to delegate a portion of its current and future Solana stake to Janover-operated validators.”

“The tech stack is performant and scalable, the ecosystem is thriving, and the yield, reflexivity, and volatility all work in our favor. At ~4% the market cap of bitcoin, there’s just a ton of upside we can capture.”

Janover “will begin staking solana immediately, generating revenue while supporting the solana network.” 

“Solana’s volatility is an opportunity rather than a flaw, while the ability to stake solana makes it a perfect complement to bitcoin. This distinction is particularly interesting because it highlights the need to diversify corporate treasuries beyond bitcoin,” Chris Chung, founder of solana-based swap platform Titan, said.

In addition, yesterday Janover announced it had partnered with crypto infrastructure provider BitGo “to accelerate the Company’s Solana accumulation strategy.”

This announcement follows the company’s strategic partnership with crypto exchange Kraken, announced on April 15, in which “Kraken plans to delegate a portion of its current and future Solana stake to Janover-operated validators.”

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Altcoin trading activity has lost its mojo

Non-bitcoin cryptocurrencies have seen their trading volume plummet in the past five months. The combined trading volume of ethereum, XRP, solana, dogecoin, SUI, and chainlink has decreased by 60% since crypto’s October 10 liquidation event, according to Thomas Probst, a research analyst at crypto markets data provider Kaiko.

Main Altcoins Trading Volume in USD
The trading volume of ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, SUI, and LINK.

For all altcoins, spot trading volume on Binance has declined between 80% and 85% to $7.7 billion, while altcoin volume on other exchanges has dropped to $18.8 billion, down from a range of $63 billion to $91 billion in October, a Friday report from Decrypt found, citing data from CryptoQuant.

“This trend may be explained by a contraction in market liquidity over the same period,” Probst told Sherwood News. “This phenomenon is also reflected in the average 1% market depth, which stood at approximately $2.6 million before the October 10 crash and is now closer to $1.7 million when aggregated across ETH, XRP, SOL, SUI, and LINK.” 

Market depth is used by investors and traders to gauge the scale of liquidity in a market. 1% market depth refers to the amount of liquidity needed to move the market by 1%. 

CoinGlass’s Altcoin Season Index, a measure to assess the performance of non-bitcoin cryptocurrencies, has been sitting above 50 this week, suggesting that the current market is neither in a bitcoin dominant phase nor an altcoin season.

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Payward, parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, puts plans for IPO on hold

Payward, crypto exchange Kraken’s parent company, has paused its plans for an initial public offering until market conditions improve, according to a report from CoinDesk that cited two people with knowledge of the matter. 

Since the firm announced in November its preparation for an IPO of its common stock, the total market capitalization of the crypto industry has shed around $652.2 billion, from $3.2 trillion to $2.5 trillion as of Wednesday, data from CoinGecko shows. 

The news comes two weeks after Kraken received approval for a master account from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, allowing the crypto exchange to connect to the Fed’s payment infrastructure used by traditional banks and credit unions. 

Last year, Kraken raised $800 million at a $20 billion valuation from institutional investors such as Jane Street and Citadel Securities.

The news comes two weeks after Kraken received approval for a master account from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, allowing the crypto exchange to connect to the Fed’s payment infrastructure used by traditional banks and credit unions. 

Last year, Kraken raised $800 million at a $20 billion valuation from institutional investors such as Jane Street and Citadel Securities.

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