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SOL at $76: ETF Inflow Gap, Allbridge Exploit & Alpenglow on Track
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SOL holds at $76 as institutional ETF inflows trail Bitcoin and Ethereum by orders of magnitude, exposing a widening gap between on-chain activity and price recovery. Today's episode covers the Allbridge flash loan exploit, Grayscale's staking filing, the Alpenglow consensus upgrade, and what the DEX volume composition really signals.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Solana's thirty-day DEX volume just crossed sixty billion dollars, surpassing BNB Chain, Robinhood, and Ethereum combined. That's a striking headline.
The address growth data sharpens the same tension. Daily active addresses climbed from twenty-six million in mid-June to thirty-six million by July eighteenth.
SOL is sitting at seventy-six dollars. That's roughly a seventy percent decline from its fifty-two week high near two hundred fifty-three dollars.
On July nineteenth and twentieth, an attacker drained one point six five million dollars from Allbridge Core using a flash loan of one point one two million USDC sourced from Kamino. The mechanics are familiar: borrow large, manipulate stablecoin pool pricing, extract value, bridge the proceeds to Ethereum before the protocol can respond.
On the institutional product side, Grayscale filed with the SEC targeting August seventh for quarterly staking reward distributions to holders of its Solana trust. If approved, it shifts the product from a passive price exposure vehicle to one that captures network-native yield.
Meanwhile, the Alpenglow consensus upgrade remains on track for a Q3 twenty twenty-six deployment. It targets a reduction in transaction finality from twelve seconds to one hundred fifty milliseconds.
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