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Pantera Capital is seeking to raise $1.25 billion for a Solana treasury, adding to the wave of institutional momentum building behind the asset.

Pantera Plans To Convert A Nasdaq-Listed Firm Into A Solana Treasury Vehicle

As first reported by The Information, Pantera Capital is planning to raise funds to create a Solana treasury vehicle. Initially, the firm intends to raise around $500 million from investors. It will then put these funds into a Nasdaq-listed company, which will use them to buy SOL and convert into a treasury vehicle called “Solana Co.”

Pantera Capital is an American venture capital and hedge fund specializing in digital assets and blockchain technology. The firm became the first to launch a cryptocurrency fund in the US back in 2013 and today, it manages over $4.8 billion in assets.

In a letter earlier in the month, Pantera disclosed it has invested over $300 million in digital asset treasury (DAT) companies. The firm said its investment thesis was based on a simple premise: “DATs can generate yield to grow net asset value per share, resulting in more underlying token ownership over time than just holding spot.”

Pantera is also an investor in medical firm Sharps Technology’s bid to create a $400 million Solana treasury, according to a press release from Sharps on Monday. And now, it seems the company is making a more direct push in the treasury space with its latest proposal. Beyond the initial $500 million, the firm also plans to raise another $750 million through warrants. If the plan comes to fruition, Solana Co. would become the largest SOL treasury in existence.

Interestingly, the report about Pantera comes just a day after another report revealed that Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto, and Multicoin Capital are planning a $1 billion SOL treasury.

Upexi is currently the largest Solana treasury company with around 2 million tokens (about $383 million at the latest exchange rate), so the proposal from Galaxy and others would have already more than doubled the record. Now, Pantera’s plan could surpass even that.

The digital asset treasury model was popularized by Michael Saylor’s Strategy (formerly Microstrategy). Other companies soon followed by putting Bitcoin on their balance sheets, but recently, altcoins have started to get attention as well.

With Galaxy and partners, Pantera, and Sharps all unveiling Solana treasury plans, there now seems to be a real shift in institutional momentum behind the cryptocurrency.

So far, treasury companies have added around 0.75% of the SOL circulating supply to their holdings, according to data from institutional DeFi solutions provider Sentora (previously IntoTheBlock).

The breakdown of the treasury company holdings across BTC, ETH, and SOL | Source: Sentora on X

From the chart, it’s visible that the same figure sits at more than 9% for Bitcoin and about 3.4% for Ethereum. Thus, it seems SOL is still quite early in the treasury push.

SOL Price

At the time of writing, Solana is floating around $190, down over 3% in the last 24 hours.

The price of the coin seems to have suffered a plunge during the past day | Source: SOLUSDT on TradingView

Featured image from Dall-E, Sentora.com, chart from TradingView.com

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Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital have launched a $250 million fund to accelerate investments in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), Axios reported on July 3.

According to the report, the fund, named Ondo Catalyst, will invest in equity stakes and tokens of projects developing tokenized versions of traditional financial assets.

Ian De Bode, chief strategy officer at Ondo, told the newswire that the tokenization market is witnessing an “arms race” as exchanges and protocols expand into tokenized stocks and exchange-traded fund offerings.

Recent initiatives reflect this momentum. Robinhood launched a layer-2 blockchain to enable European clients to trade tokenized US stocks and ETFs.

In May, Kraken announced plans to offer tokenized US stock trading to investors outside the United States, while Coinbase is reportedly pursuing regulatory approval to provide tokenized equities.

Ondo Finance has been expanding its role in blockchain-based capital markets this year. The firm launched Ondo Global Markets to connect traditional finance with blockchain infrastructure and formed a Global Markets Alliance with other crypto companies to drive adoption.

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The CEO of investment firm Pantera Capital says the current value of the crypto market is currently a massive buying opportunity.

In a presentation at the TOKEN2049 crypto conference in Dubai, Dan Morehead says that digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC) will likely remain bullish amid pro-crypto regulatory changes under US President Donald Trump.

“If right before the US election a genie showed you a crystal ball and said that a pro-crypto candidate would win, the pro-crypto party would be in charge of the House and Senate, 54 anti-crypto people would be out of Congress, there’d be executive orders with Bitcoin strategic reserve, all kinds of things like this happening, and you said that the market would be only up 35%, they would say you were crazy.

So although people are kind of freaking out about the markets right now, I think it’s unbelievably cheap. The way I think about it is, our Bitcoin fund has a 13-year compound annual growth rate of 85%, so being up 35% over three or four months, it’s just kind of normal, like it’s not even up. So we’re still very, very bullish on the markets. Bunch of great policy things are happening.”

Morehead also says that traditional assets like stocks are likely overvalued and present a higher investment risk, whereas Bitcoin is likely to continue to outperform the S&P 500.

The investor notes that Bitcoin is up 50% in value compared to one year ago, while the SPX is up just 8% during the same time period.

“Stocks and bonds are super expensive to their long-term average, and that doesn’t even count weird things like tariffs and the impact of lower growth, higher inflation. So if you’re looking for a place to invest, the old school assets really do seem scary from an equity risk premium standpoint, either bond yields have to go up 75 basis points, or stocks have to come down quite a bit.

Blockchain is the safest place to hide, and you’re already seeing that. This is the change in the price of Bitcoin, gold and then the top 25 cryptocurrencies market cap weighted since a year ago (see chart below). It’s the only place to hide in an admittedly confusing world.”

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