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Solanas New Institutional Push: A Sixty-Page Guide for European Banks

Solana, the blockchain network, has made a significant move towards institutional adoption by launching the Solana Research Institute in Switzerland. Led by former Euroclear boss Angus Scott, the institute has published a comprehensive sixty-page guide to help European banks and firms navigate the blockchain landscape amidst clearer regulations and growing onchain activity.

The institute collaborates with partners like the Solana Foundation, Jito, R3, and Figment to break down regulations such as Europes MiCA and the US GENIUS Act for stablecoins. This initiative follows Solanas twenty twenty-five Policy Institute in DC, which shifted focus from lawmakers to practical finance professionals assessing risks and operations.

Institutions are showing interest, with Solana processing six hundred fifty billion dollars in stablecoin transfers in February and over two billion in tokenized real-world assets in March. The network has held closed-door meetings in London with major players like State Street and DTCC, indicating genuine progress.

While Ethereum maintains its dominance with deeper liquidity—one hundred sixty-five billion in stablecoins and forty-four billion locked in DeFi compared to Solanas five billion—permissioned networks like Canton manage over six trillion in assets for privacy enthusiasts.

As regulations solidify and infrastructure matures on custody and execution, Solana is positioning itself to connect public chains with big money, moving from tests to real deployments across the board.

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