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Janover triples down on solana buying spree

AI-powered commercial real estate company Janover is not wasting time on increasing its Solana bet. On April 15, the company purchased 80,567 solana for approximately $10.5 million.

Solana, with a $69 billion market cap, is the seventh-largest crypto. It’s also the biggest crypto gainer in the past 24 hours, up more than 6%. Meanwhile, bitcoin and most of the asset class is flat this morning.

This represents the company’s third acquisition since it announced its Strategy-like digital asset treasury strategy on April 7. It previously purchased $4.6 billion of solana on April 10 and 44,158 solana for approximately $5 million on April 11. Janover now holds 163,651.7 solana, valued at approximately $21.2 million.

CEO Joseph Onorati said earlier in April that the company’s move emulates Strategy’s approach, but argued, “Solana is even better suited for this than bitcoin is.”  

Onorati told Sherwood News:

“The tech stack is performant and scalable, the ecosystem is thriving, and the yield, reflexivity, and volatility all work in our favor. At ~4% the market cap of bitcoin, there’s just a ton of upside we can capture.”

Janover “will begin staking solana immediately, generating revenue while supporting the solana network.” 

“Solana’s volatility is an opportunity rather than a flaw, while the ability to stake solana makes it a perfect complement to bitcoin. This distinction is particularly interesting because it highlights the need to diversify corporate treasuries beyond bitcoin,” Chris Chung, founder of solana-based swap platform Titan, said.

In addition, yesterday Janover announced it had partnered with crypto infrastructure provider BitGo “to accelerate the Company’s Solana accumulation strategy.”

This announcement follows the company’s strategic partnership with crypto exchange Kraken, announced on April 15, in which “Kraken plans to delegate a portion of its current and future Solana stake to Janover-operated validators.”

“The tech stack is performant and scalable, the ecosystem is thriving, and the yield, reflexivity, and volatility all work in our favor. At ~4% the market cap of bitcoin, there’s just a ton of upside we can capture.”

Janover “will begin staking solana immediately, generating revenue while supporting the solana network.” 

“Solana’s volatility is an opportunity rather than a flaw, while the ability to stake solana makes it a perfect complement to bitcoin. This distinction is particularly interesting because it highlights the need to diversify corporate treasuries beyond bitcoin,” Chris Chung, founder of solana-based swap platform Titan, said.

In addition, yesterday Janover announced it had partnered with crypto infrastructure provider BitGo “to accelerate the Company’s Solana accumulation strategy.”

This announcement follows the company’s strategic partnership with crypto exchange Kraken, announced on April 15, in which “Kraken plans to delegate a portion of its current and future Solana stake to Janover-operated validators.”

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Painvember is real — the crypto market has lost more than $1 trillion in overall market cap since early October and now sits at $3.2 trillion, down from $4.3 trillion on October 6, when bitcoin hit its all-time high.

Bitcoin dipped below $90,000 for the first time since April late Monday night. The asset is roughly flat from one year ago, shortly after the US presidential election.

“The longer bitcoin stays under $100k, the more the sense of imminent doom intensifies. But amid all this panic, there are reasons to be optimistic. We’ve seen BTC ETF ownership jump from 20% to 28% this year, institutional demand remains high, and the biggest Bitcoin whale — Michael Saylor — has just scooped up more BTC,” Nic Puckrin, cofounder of Coin Bureau, told Sherwood News.

  • The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is now at 11, reflecting “extreme fear.”

  • Bitcoin ETFs saw $254.51 million in outflows on Monday, bringing total outflows to $2.59 billion in November. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, the most successful bitcoin ETF, saw a whopping $1.26 billion exit its fund so far this month.

  • Meanwhile, ethereum ETFs suffered $182.8 million in outflows — $1.42 billion so far this month, according to SoSoValue.

  • Crypto liquidations reached $801 million in the past 24 hours, Coinglass data shows. Bitcoin suffered $433 million in liquidations, with the bulk of them — $390.89 million — in long positions.

“Bitcoin and crypto are trading much more like classic risk assets right now. Everything is moving with broader risk sentiment and growing anxiety around credit,” Greg Magadini, director of derivatives at Amberdata, told Sherwood.

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