Solana Daily: News & Analysis · 1 Jun 2026 · 4 min

SOL at $81: RWA Surge, ETF Inflows & the June 16 Summit

Solana processed 75.7M daily transactions while SOL trades at $81 — the utility-price gap is wider than ever. Today's episode breaks down RWA tokenization momentum, Alpenglow testnet progress, ETF inflows, and what the June 16 Washington x Wall Street Summit means for institutional capital.

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SOL at $81: RWA Surge, ETF Inflows & the June 16 Summit

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SOL at $81 Despite 75M Daily Transactions

Solana processed seventy-five point seven one million transactions in the past twenty-four hours, and the price is eighty-one dollars. That gap is the story right now.

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Alpenglow Testnet and Firedancer Progress

Start with the infrastructure layer, because that's where the most concrete progress is happening. Alpenglow, Solana's consensus overhaul, went live on testnet May eleventh.

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RWA Tokenization and Fintech Entrants

The institutional signal this week came fast. In a single stretch from May twenty-ninth through thirty-first, SoFi launched SoFiUSD, Cash App added USDC support, State Street deployed its SWEEP fund on-chain, and Streamex-Orca launched a twenty-four seven RWA liquidity pool.

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ETF Inflows vs. Macro Headwinds

Eight spot SOL ETFs are now trading. Cumulative inflows have reached one point one two billion dollars.

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June 16 Summit and What to Watch

The memecoin volume that drove Solana's DEX activity through twenty twenty-four and into twenty twenty-five has collapsed. DeFi TVL has fallen fifty-six percent from its August peak, now sitting at five point three one billion.

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