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Pyra Shuts Down, Ethena's $250M RWA Bet & SOL at $75 Resistance
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Solana DeFi contagion claims Pyra as the Drift Protocol cascade reaches its latest victim, while Ethena Labs commits $250M to tokenized CLOs on Solana and SOL consolidates at critical resistance ahead of a Fed rate decision.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Pyra is shutting down. The Solana-based crypto card service announced it's ending operations on June sixteenth, and the reason traces directly back to the Drift Protocol exploit that drained two hundred eighty-five million dollars in April.
Meanwhile, SOL has staged a meaningful recovery. The token climbed from a June low of sixty-two dollars and forty-four cents to a high of seventy-five dollars and sixty cents, a twenty percent move driven partly by geopolitical relief and partly by the growing institutional momentum in tokenized assets.
On the institutional side, the most significant development in the past twenty-four hours is Ethena Labs committing two hundred fifty million dollars to Securitize's tokenized AAA CLO fund, now live on Solana. This is structured credit on-chain, not speculative yield.
The SpaceX trading data reinforces that picture. Solana captured ninety-nine percent of tokenized SpaceX trades on June fifteenth, with one hundred million dollars in spot volume in a single day.
One smaller but telling data point: the board of HSDT, a Solana treasury company, unanimously rejected an unsolicited acquisition offer, citing that the bid substantially undervalued its SOL holdings. The signal there is straightforward.
Pulling back: the Drift aftermath is still unresolved. The RWA momentum is real but the Ethena allocation isn't deployed yet.
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