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Grayscale’s MSOL Discount Signals a Bigger Bet on Solana’s Institutional Future

Grayscale Slashes Fees as Competition Intensifies
Grayscale has cut the annual fee on its spot Solana ETF from 0.35% to 0.19%, putting it on par with the cheapest Solana ETF currently on the market. It’s a notably aggressive repositioning from where the fund stood previously.

The timing lines up with a move from Morgan Stanley, which filed amended Form S-1 paperwork with the SEC for its planned Solana ETF (MSOL), proposing an even lower 0.14% fee — undercutting existing offerings outright. Grayscale’s discount looks less like an isolated decision and more like a defensive response to mounting fee competition across the Solana ETF landscape.

What stands out is that this jockeying is happening while SOL’s chart still looks shaky. Institutional positioning, in other words, doesn’t appear to be waiting for the technical picture to clear up — firms seem to be quietly building or rotating exposure regardless.

On-Chain Strength Bolsters the Institutional Case

Beyond ETF mechanics, the broader market appears to be pricing in a constructive multi-quarter outlook for Solana. Developers are pushing tokenomics upgrades, tokenized-asset trading, and renewed speculative interest across meme coins and AI-linked tokens. Solana’s real-world-asset (RWA) sector has been a particular standout, with total value now above $3.1 billion — an all-time high — and the holder count surpassing 290,000.

Multicoin Capital co-founder Tushar Jain recently described Hyperliquid (HYPE) as complementary to the firm’s Solana holdings rather than competitive, noting that Solana dominates spot trading while Hyperliquid leads in derivatives. Jain’s view is that both networks are positioned to outperform peers even if their use cases overlap somewhat.

Adding another layer of institutional access, the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) — one of Central Asia’s largest bourses ......

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Hyper Foundation Puts Up $10M to Smooth the End of USDH

Hyper Foundation launched a $10 million grant program to support USDH's retirement, helping builders migrate to USDC while simplifying liquidity, reducing fragmentation, and ensuring an orderly ecosystem transition.

More: https://bitnxt.io/news/hyper-foundation-puts-up-10m-to-smooth-the-end-of-usdh

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SharpLink Picks Up $46.7M in Ether Through Weekend OTC Trades

The Ethereum treasury firm has now bought $62.4 million worth of ETH in three days, even as the token sits near its 2026 lows and ETF outflows stretch into a seventh straight week.

More: https://bitnxt.io/news/sharplink-buys-62m-ether-weekend-otc-trades

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Vitalik Buterin: Obfuscation Plus Blockchains Could Replace the Need for a Trusted Third Party

Vitalik Buterin says cryptographic obfuscation combined with blockchains could eliminate trusted intermediaries, though current implementations remain far too slow for practical, real-world applications.

More: https://bitnxt.io/news/vitalik-buterin-obfuscation-plus-blockchains-could-replace-the-need-for-a-trusted-third-party

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BitMEX Shakes Up Its C-Suite, Names New CEO Amid Sale Talk

BitMEX has cleared out a significant chunk of its senior leadership team, continuing a broader push to reshape the business at a moment when reports of a possible sale keep resurfacing. According to a report from CoinDesk, the exchange has removed three top executives from their posts: chief executive Stephan Lutz, chief financial officer Ina Steiner, and chief growth officer Raphael Polansky.

Stepping into the CEO role is Peter Wilkinson, a BitMEX veteran who previously served as the company's global general counsel and chief operating officer. His move to the top job was confirmed through recent updates to his LinkedIn profile, rather than a formal company announcement, suggesting the transition is still unfolding quietly behind the scenes.

A Company That Has Cycled Through Leadership Before

This isn't the first time BitMEX has rebuilt its leadership from the top down. The exchange was founded back in 2014 by Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, and Samuel Reed, all of whom stepped away from day-to-day management in 2020 after U.S. authorities filed criminal charges accusing the company of failing to maintain adequate anti-money-laundering controls. BitMEX later pleaded guilty to those charges.

Alexander Hoeptner took over as CEO in early 2021 following the founders' departure, before handing the role to Stephan Lutz in 2022, a transition that happened in the middle of the previous broad downturn across crypto markets. Now, just a few years later, the exchange is going through another executive reset — this time with Wilkinson, an insider rather than an outside hire, taking the reins.
The timing of this latest shake-up is notable.

BitMEX has reportedly been looking for a buyer, and trimming senior leadership is the kind of move that can help lower operating costs while making the ....

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The Biggest Crypto Predictions From Last Year - Who Got It Right?

We checked 2025's bold calls against what actually happened. Brutal for price targets, kinder for structural calls.

Headline numbers that crashed and burned:
- BTC hit $126,198 (Oct 2025 ATH) but closed the year near $87,000 - below nearly every major target
- Saylor: $100K then $1M — undershot both badly
- Standard Chartered's Kendrick: $200K — missed by 50%+
- Tom Lee: $150-250K — right on the ATH spike, wrong on sustained levels
- Bitwise: BTC $200K, ETH $7K, SOL $750 — all three missed
- HashKey poll: BTC $300K, ETH $8K, $10T market cap — only the stablecoin call landed
- Tyler Durden: BTC $1M, ETH $20K — not close

Ethereum was the bigger miss:
- ETH peaked near $4,897-4,950 (Aug 2025), then sold off hard
- Standard Chartered's $14K target later cut to $7,500
- Bankless: $10K pessimistic, $15K fair value — both wrong
- Finder's 50-analyst average: $6,105 — missed
- By mid-2026, ETH traded near $1,550 — 80%+ below even conservative calls

What actually landed — structural calls, not prices:
- Gemini correctly called spot Solana AND XRP ETFs launching in 2025 — both did
- VanEck correctly predicted expanded ETP staking functionality
- Galaxy Research called over half of top-20 BTC miners pivoting into AI/HPC — MARA, Riot, others did exactly that
- VanEck's "1M new AI agents in 2025" looks directionally right given Solana's AI-agent boom
- Coinbase's vague trend-based outlook (crypto-friendly Congress, stablecoins to payments, DeFi revival) aged well by avoiding hard numbers

The pattern:*specific dollar targets for BTC/ETH were usually wrong by 30-50%+. Structural calls — which ETFs launch, how miners pivot, where stablecoins head — landed much closer.

Our takeaway:weight "what's changing structurally" over "number go to X." Four-year cycle theory has visibly broken down — ETF flows and macro now drive price more than historical patterns.

Not financial advice. DYOR.

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