Canadian investment firm SOL Strategies has secured a $500 million convertible note to buy Solana, the company announced on Wednesday, reflecting the growing interest in the crypto that has been popular among meme coin developers and others who favor its speed compared to rivals.
The company, which trades on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the ticker HODL, described the agreement with New York investment firm ATW Partners as the largest and first of its kind in the Solana ecosystem.
“This is the largest financing facility of its kind in the Solana ecosystem and the first ever directly tied to staking yield,” SOL Strategies CEO Leah Wald said in a statement.
Solana, the sixth-largest digital asset with a $77 billion market capitalization, has surged more than 20% over the past two weeks, outpacing even Bitcoin.
The price uplift comes amid a resurgence in meme coins, with Fartcoin gaining more than 90% over the past month and others entering positive territory, according to CoinGecko data.
Solana was recently changing hands at $152, up 5% over the past 24 hours and 14% over the week.
Wald said that buying Solana would help the company become the leading institutional staking platform.
SOL Strategies' stock was recently trading for $2.27 CAD (US$1.64) per share, up nearly 25% over the past day.
Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, purchased 6,500 Bitcoin last week, padding its corporate coffers by $556 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The Tysons, Virginia-based firm now owns 538,000 Bitcoin worth $47.2 billion following Bitcoin’s climb above $88,000 on Sunday, according to crypto data provider CoinGecko. The software firm said it scooped the asset up for an average price of $84,800 last week.
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BREAKING: SOL Strategies secures landmark USD $500M convertible note facility with ATW Partners to expand SOL holdings.
This first-of-its-kind structure is exclusively for SOL purchases and staking on our validators, with interest paid in SOL.
— SOL Strategies (CSE: HODL | OTCQX: CYFRF) (@solstrategies_) April 23, 2025
SOL Strategies said last month that it holds 267,151 SOL, today worth over $40.4 million. Token holders can stakeor pledge their crypto to the network to help it run and receive rewards in the process.
Solana and its native coin has gained traction with investors and developers alike because it is a cheaper and faster alternative to Ethereum, the network behind the second-biggest crypto, ETH.
The share prices of crypto-focused companies jumped this week amid the wider market upturn that sent Bitcoin to multiple all-time highs and despite a lull on Friday in equity indexes.
Coinbase and Strategy both rose about 9% and 12%, respectively, over the past five days, according to Yahoo Finance data. Stock and crypto trading platform Robinhood climbed 5%. The stock prices of major Bitcoin miners also spiked with MARA Holdings soaring about 12%.
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