This Week’s Market Overview Season’s beatings! SOL (SOL) briefly lost its $120 support but countered with a weak bounce, and still ended the week in the red. And it was the same all around, with Bitcoin hitting $90,000 before slipping below $88,000 in no time as post-Christmas pain continues. Source: Ted Pillows Solana Ecosystem News What about the top Solana ecosystem tokens? The trenches are showing signs of life again, as the ecosystem’s trading volume edged up 11% to $12 billion. Yet the market ...

Market Trends - Solana is emerging as a leading platform for trading various assets [1] - Proprietary Automated Market Makers (Prop AMMs) are facilitating the realization of Internet Capital Markets [1] Trading Efficiency & Cost - HumidiFi demonstrates TradFi-grade execution for real trading volume [1] - HumidiFi quotes spreads of 0.4 to 1.6 basis points (bps) for SOL-USDC trades, increasing to 5 bps at $1 million [1] - S&P 500 stocks exhibit spreads in the sub-1 to 8 bps range, while mid-cap stocks range from 3 to 25 bps based on SEC Rule 605 data [1] - Prop AMMs are matching or surpassing traditional finance (TradFi) execution for trades under $100 thousand [1] Competitive Advantage - Best execution is crucial for success [2]

Solana Ecosystem Overview - Solana is leading the way in building Internet Capital Markets [1] - Breakpoint talks are mostly product oriented (80-90%) with only a few being technical [1] Recommendation - Encourages spending a few hours watching the talks that interest you [1]

RT Nick Almond (@DrNickA)On my way home from Breakpoint. A few reflections on the event and Solana generally 👇This was my first Breakpoint and I have to say, I was incredibly impressed. The production values are about as good as I’ve seen them. It’s impeccably organised and incredibly well curated. I sat and watched like 12 hours of content, at least, across the 3 days and it was all very high quality. Short punchy product and tech updates and with some quirky debate style formats that were fun.The vibes we ...

💡 @0xMert_ at @SolanaConf says the listings of wrapped XRP and ZCash prove the shift is real: "The internet capital markets thing is finally actually happening." https://t.co/UyZFr4qtsL ...

RT Will (@theonlywill)🚨BIG NEWS: @Revolut the #1 neobank on Europe with 65M+ users, now supports @solana payments, transfers & staking!This is how Internet Capital Markets are born.The place to build is ON SOLANA! 🤝 https://t.co/sxbfzXaRG8 ...

RT Asgard Finance (@asgardfi)Backed by FearlessWe have raised a $2.2M seed round to help fearless sovereign individuals take structured positions in Internet Capital MarketsLed by: @robotventures ...

Solana Ecosystem & Adoption - Solana Breakpoint conference is a key event for the crypto community [1] - The conference focuses on accelerating the adoption of Internet Capital Markets [1] - The event is relevant for those building new applications in the crypto space [1]

Capital Markets & Investment Trends - Current capital markets privatize gains and socialize losses [1] - Over 95% of valuable companies remain private, excluding retail investors from top opportunities [1] - Equity can't scale to billions of holders, but tokens can [2] - Internet's liquidity layer will end the US markets monopoly on liquidity [2] - Internet Capital Markets are coming faster than people think [2] Blockchain & Tokenization - Public blockchains like Solana can make asset ownership trivial for anyone with a phone [1] - Reducing barriers for asset issuers and investors using internet-native infrastructure is key to UBO (Universal Basic Ownership) [1] - Crypto simplifies compliance [1] - Anything becomes an asset through tokenization (Spotify artists, DoorDash restaurant futures, Uber Riders) [2] Future Economic Models - Societies will move towards a UBI (Universal Basic Income) or UBO (Universal Basic Ownership) model [1] - The hard part (network, apps, demand) is built; the last piece is supply coming from capital markets going on the internet [2]

RT Superteam UAE (@SuperteamAE)Day 3 is all about Internet Capital Marketswe got 4 speakers joining us:> @akshaybd, nCMO of @SolanaFndn> @AlexSmirnov, CEO of @debridge> @kashdhanda, Cat-herder of @JupiterExchange> Sebastian Vallant from @Ledgerbig day ahead. don’t miss out 🫡 https://t.co/OoUoZtZAND ...