- Solana's real assets division grew from less than $1.5 billion in 2026 to over $2.8 billion.
- According to reports, Amundi has launched a UCITS fund on the Solana platform, further reinforcing the adoption of this fund by institutional investors.
- SOL price dropped sharply after approaching resistance, triggering widespread long liquidations and significant outflows.
Solana's Despite price pressure on SOL, the real-world assets sector continues to expand at an impressive pace. Over the past few months, tokenized assets deployed on the network have surged significantly, reinforcing Solana’s growing position within the broader blockchain financial infrastructure. Meanwhile, SOL has retraced much of its recent gains after failing to break through key resistance levels again.
Latest data from Capital Markets shows that the total value of real-world assets on the Solana platform has risen from under $1.5 billion in January 2026 to over $2.8 billion this month. This accelerated growth has made the network one of the fastest-growing in the ecosystem. RWA is currently experiencing rapid expansion within the cryptocurrency space. If growth continues at this pace, Solana’s market value could surpass the $3 billion mark within weeks—a figure that would have sounded almost unimaginable not long ago.
Real-world asset growth on the Solana platform continues to accelerate.
Growth is evident not only in assets but also in value. According to reports, the number of addresses on the Solana network related to RWA has now exceeded 216,000, marking another milestone in RWA adoption across the ecosystem. This surge indicates that an increasing number of institutions, developers, and users are directly interacting with tokenized financial products on-chain, rather than merely observing from the sidelines.
What’s truly striking is that SOL’s network growth appears disconnected from its short-term price movement. Typically, robust ecosystem expansion supports upward momentum for a blockchain’s native token. However, Solana’s market finds itself caught in a paradox: sustained long-term infrastructure growth alongside weak short-term trading conditions.
However, the broader narrative surrounding Solana's role in tokenized finance remains reinforced.
Amundi launches a UCITS fund on the Solana Network
One of the most notable developments this week is the reported launch of a UCITS fund on the Solana platform by Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager. This is a significant move, as UCITS funds are standardized investment instruments widely recognized and traded across the European Union. In traditional finance, these funds are typically viewed as investment vehicles structured as highly regulated and institutionally endorsed products.
This highlights growing interest in leveraging Solana’s infrastructure to directly deploy traditional financial instruments on the blockchain. Institutional user adoption has become one of the network’s most talked-about topics recently, and such developments will only further strengthen this trend.
For many analysts, the growing risk-weighted assets (RWA) industry on blockchain could eventually become one of Solana’s strongest long-term growth drivers, especially as traditional finance gradually shifts toward tokenization. Of course, it is still in its early stages, but the momentum behind blockchain-based financial infrastructure continues to strengthen.
SOL price has retraced to the consolidation range.
Despite the ecosystem's continued strong growth, SOL's price movement has shown a more cautious tone in the short term. At the beginning of this month, after SOL prices rebounded strongly and briefly broke above the key $98 level, market optimism began to revive. This move reignited hopes that Solana might finally break out of the consolidation range it has maintained since February.
However, this rally nearly stalled immediately after retesting the key resistance level. Since then, SOL has declined by approximately 12%, erasing most of its gains from the first half of May. As of writing, Solana is trading near $86, bringing the token back firmly within its broader consolidation range.
For traders, this pullback is significant because many are watching to see if the breakout has enough momentum to sustain a long-term trend. However, the market quickly shifted into a defensive stance.
Settlement and fund outflows have put additional pressure on SOL.
On-chain data also shows a rise in spot prices. Since the beginning of the week, and especially after the market reversal on Monday, there has been a significant increase in net outflows from Solana. It was reported that Solana experienced approximately $33 million in net outflows over the past 24 hours, indicating that investors are withdrawing funds rather than actively buying during the market decline. Correction
Meanwhile, before the market reversal, leverage in the derivatives market had been steadily rising. Open interest surged from approximately $4.9 billion in early May to nearly $6.7 billion on May 12, reflecting a significant accumulation of long positions during the rally. Once the market turned lower, this leverage quickly fueled further downward pressure.
Therefore, over the past few days, a large number of long positions have been liquidated. Approximately $25 million in long positions were liquidated. Liquidations in the past 24 hours, however, saw short positions being closed for far more than this amount, while short liquidations during the same period totaled less than $500,000. This imbalance between supply and demand highlights just how crowded long positions had become before the pullback accelerated.
Despite recent price weakness, some investors still view SOL’s current price range as an attractive long-term accumulation zone, especially given the network’s expanding real-world asset ecosystem. However, for now, Solana continues to navigate short-term selling pressure while striving to balance growing institutional adoption against a weak trading environment.