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Mastercard Goes Live on Solana While SOL Stays Stuck Below $67
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Mastercard launched a live AI payments system on Solana, BlackRock and Visa are deepening infrastructure builds — yet SOL remains rangebound below $67 with a bearish flag forming. Today's episode breaks down the widening gap between real-world adoption and token price.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Mastercard just put Solana at the center of machine-to-machine payments, and the price barely moved. That's the story today.
The institutional story doesn't stop there. The World Series of Poker announced it'll accept crypto buy-ins through MoonPay on Solana at its summer events, with stablecoin winnings settlement at the December Bahamas tournament.
Here's the disconnect. None of that adoption is lifting the price.
The supply side is making recovery harder. The FTX and Alameda estate just unstaked around two hundred thousand SOL, roughly thirteen million dollars worth, linked to known exchange addresses.
One quieter signal worth tracking: Arcium's confidential computing network crossed one million transactions on Solana. Its ZINC protocol now ranks third in Solana fee revenue.
The core tension in this episode is a structural one. Institutional partnerships take months, sometimes quarters, to drive measurable trading volume.
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