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SOL Strategies Buys $18M of Solana Tokens With First Tranche of $500M Note Deal

SOL Strategies (HODL), the Toronto-listed digital asset firm focusing on Solana (SOL), said on Tuesday it has acquired over $18 million worth of SOL tokens, using proceeds from a newly secured financing deal.
The company purchased 122,524 SOL for $18.25 million at an average price of $148.96 per token, according to a press release. The acquisition follows the initial $20 million closing of a planned $500 million convertible note facility with investment firm ATW Partners, announced last month.
Shares of the company slid 10% to around CA$2.6 in the early Tuesday hours of the session, extending the slump for late April’s peak over CA$3.3. Still, the stock is up nearly 80% in two weeks.
«With the closing of our initial $20 million tranche from the ATW facility, we’re executing exactly as promised – strategically acquiring SOL to expand our validator operations and ecosystem position,» said CEO Leah Wald. «These purchases directly strengthen our three-pillar strategy of enterprise grade validators, strategic SOL holdings, and solana technology innovation.»
Validator operations are core infrastructure in proof-of-stake blockchains like Solana, where participants help secure the network and earn staking rewards. By acquiring SOL, the firm can increase its validator stake, potentially boosting both influence and revenue within the ecosystem.
Sol Strategies’ move highlights a growing trend among public companies applying the playbook of Michael Saylor’s Strategy with bitcoin (BTC)—using capital markets to accumulate large cryptocurrency holdings in the hopes delivering upside to shareholders.
Last month, real estate fintech firm Janover (JNVR), now rebranded as DeFi Development, pivoted to focusing on accumulating SOL and building out a validator business on the Solana network.
Read more: DeFi Development Plans to Raise $1 Billion to Buy More Solana
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Pakistan to Establish a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, Allocate 2000 Megawatts of Energy for Crypto Mining

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The government of Pakistan has plans to establish a strategic bitcoin BTC reserve and support bitcoin mining, the country’s Minister of State for Blockchain and Crypto Bilal Bin Saqib announced at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Bin Saqib said that Pakistan’s plans for a strategic bitcoin reserve were inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration’s own nascent plan for a strategic bitcoin reserve in the U.S., which will — at least at first — be filled with the U.S. government’s holdings from criminal and civil forfeitures, estimated to sit at around 200,000 bitcoins. He also said that the government of Pakistan was following the U.S.’s push for stablecoin legislation, the GENIUS Act, “very carefully.”
Like the bitcoins earmarked for the U.S. strategic reserve, Bin Saquib said that the Pakistani government would not sell its bitcoins.
“This wallet, the national bitcoin wallet, is not for speculation or hype. We will be holding these bitcoins and we will never, ever sell them,” Bin Saqib said.
In addition to setting up a strategic reserve, Bin Saqiib announced that the government of Pakistan has earmarked 2,000 megawatts of electricity for bitcoin mining and AI data centers.“We want to welcome all miners to come to Pakistan, all the infrastructure players to come to Pakistan and build with us,” Bin Saqib said.
Bin Saqib said that the establishment of a bitcoin strategic reserve in Pakistan would be “just the beginning” of the country’s embrace of the crypto industry.
“We have over 100 million unbanked people. They lack tools for saving, for investment, and we want to change that. We want them to break their economic classes. And I really believe that crypto and blockchain can help us take that quantum leap,” Bin Saqib said. “We want to tokenize our illiquid assets. We want to do digital IDs … So Pakistan is looking for allies. Pakistan is looking for access, because Pakistan wants to build.”
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TON Sinks After Elon Musk Denies xAI/Telegram Deal Was Signed

A deal that would bring xAI’s Grok to Telegram has apparently not been signed, despite prior reporting, putting sell pressure on TON’s recent rally.
«No deal has been signed,» Musk posted late Wednesday in response to the Telegram founder’s announcement.
TON, a token associated with Telegram, dropped from $3.60 to $3.40 in the moments after the tweet. The token had been on a rally in the hours after the announcement, previously up 14% on-day, according to CoinDesk market data.
More to come…
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Nvidia’s Earnings Beat May Help AI-Linked Tokens

Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) rose roughly 4% in post-trading hours after reporting better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Wednesday.
The AI powerhouse posted a 69% increase in revenue in the first quarter, compared to a year ago, with its data center business growing 73% year-over-year. Net income came in at $18.8 billion, up 26% from a year earlier.
The after-hours move pushed NVDA shares to a modest year-to-date gain and about a 20% year-over-year advance.
AI crypto tokens, including Bittensor TAO, NEAR Protocol NEAR and Internet Computer (CIP), moved slightly higher after Nvidia’s earnings beat, although remained sizably lower for the day. Nevertheless, it was ongoing AI demand which was a key driver in the 73% growth in the company data center business.
Turning to the outlook amid recent global trade uncertainties, Nvidia said it expects second-quarter revenue to come in below market estimates as a result of tariff-related restrictions between the U.S. and China.
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