November 17, 2025 8:45 AM EST | Supply: SOL Strategies Inc.
Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – November 17, 2025) – SOL Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL) (NASDAQ: STKE) (“SOL Strategies” or the “Firm”), the primary publicly traded firm to mix a considerable Solana treasury with a revenue-generating validator working enterprise, at the moment introduced its choice as a staking supplier for the VanEck Solana ETF by means of SOL Strategies’ Orangefin validator.
VanEck has been a longstanding supporter of the Solana ecosystem. The association advances SOL Strategies’ mission to bridge conventional finance with decentralized infrastructure.
“We’re excited to work with VanEck, a agency that has persistently championed the Solana ecosystem,” stated Michael Hubbard, Interim CEO of SOL Strategies. “This choice validates our infrastructure capabilities and highlights the institutional curiosity in compliant, high-performance Solana staking options. As we proceed to scale our validator operations, preparations like this reinforce our place as a trusted institutional gateway to the Solana ecosystem.”
“VanEck has lengthy acknowledged Solana’s potential,” stated Kyle DaCruz, Director of Digital Belongings Product at VanEck. “SOL Strategies’ confirmed monitor report in validator operations and institutional focus made them a pure alternative for our Solana ETF staking necessities.”
SOL Strategies’ choice builds on its monitor report of institutional preparations, together with its work with Tetra Belief and different main monetary establishments. The Firm operates ISO 27001 and SOC 2 licensed validators that presently safe over CAD$610 million in staked belongings.
About SOL Strategies
SOL Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL) (NASDAQ: STKE) is a Canadian funding firm that operates on the forefront of blockchain innovation. Specializing within the Solana ecosystem, the corporate gives strategic investments and infrastructure options to allow the following technology of decentralized purposes.
To be taught extra about SOL Strategies, please go to www.solstrategies.io. A duplicate of this information launch and all of the Firm’s associated materials paperwork concerning the Firm could also be obtained below the Firm’s SEDAR+ profile at www.sedarplus.ca and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
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Ahead-looking statements on this information launch embrace statements concerning the Firm’s staking association with VanEck and the Firm’s validator operations. There isn’t a assurance that the Firm’s plans or aims will likely be carried out as set out herein, or in any respect. Ahead-looking info relies on sure elements and assumptions the Firm believes to be cheap on the time such statements are made and is topic to recognized and unknown dangers, uncertainties, and different elements that will trigger the precise outcomes, degree of exercise, efficiency, or achievements of the Firm to be materially completely different from these expressed or implied by such forward-looking info.
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Disclaimer
SOL Strategies is an unbiased group within the Solana ecosystem. SOL Strategies will not be affiliated with, owned by, or below frequent management with Solana Basis (the “Basis”), and the Basis has not entered into any affiliation, partnership, three way partnership, worker, or company relationship with SOL Strategies.
Not one of the Basis or its council members, officers, brokers or make any representations or warranties, suggestions, endorsements or guarantees with respect to the accuracy of any statements made, info supplied, or motion taken by SOL Strategies and expressly disclaim any and all legal responsibility arising from or associated to any such statements, info or motion.
VSOL: Prospectus
This materials have to be preceded or accompanied by a prospectus: VSOL Prospectus here. An funding within the VanEck Solana ETF (“VSOL”; or the”Belief”) will not be appropriate for all traders. Earlier than investing, it’s best to rigorously contemplate the Belief’s funding aims, dangers, expenses, and bills.
Investing includes important threat, and you would lose cash on an funding within the Belief. The worth of Solana (SOL) is extremely unstable, and the worth of the Belief’s shares might decline quickly, together with to zero. You would lose your complete principal funding. For a extra full dialogue of the danger elements relative to the Belief, rigorously learn the prospectus.
The Belief’s funding goal is to mirror the efficiency of the worth of Solana much less the bills of the Belief’s operations. The Belief is a passive funding automobile that doesn’t search to generate returns past monitoring the worth of Solana.
The Belief will not be an funding firm registered below the Funding Firm Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”) or a commodity pool for the needs of the Commodity Change Act (“CEA”). Shares of the Belief usually are not topic to the identical regulatory necessities as mutual funds. Consequently, shareholders of VSOL shouldn’t have the protections related to possession of shares in an funding firm registered below the 1940 Act or the protections afforded by the CEA.
An funding within the Belief is topic to dangers which embrace, however usually are not restricted to, the traditionally and doubtlessly future excessive volatility of Solana, varied potential elements that will adversely have an effect on the liquidity of Belief shares, the restricted historical past of the Index from which the worth of Solana and therefore the worth of Belief shares will likely be decided, potential threats to the Belief’s Solana custodian, and the unregulated nature and lack of transparency surrounding the operations of Solana buying and selling platforms, all of which can in the end adversely have an effect on the worth of shares of the Belief.
Staking Dangers: As a part of its technique, the Belief intends to stake a portion of its SOL through third-party staking service suppliers, which entails a variety of dangers. SOL that’s staked will bear activation and de‐activation (or withdrawal) intervals throughout which it’s locked up and inaccessible, that means the Belief could not be capable of rapidly liquidate these belongings to fulfill redemption requests-particularly in unstable or harassed market circumstances. Validators to which SOL is delegated could behave improperly or endure efficiency failures (e.g., downtime or misconfiguration), and in some circumstances “slashing” or protocol‐imposed penalties could apply for such misbehavior, leading to a lack of staked SOL. There may be counterparty and operational threat related to the staking service suppliers (and the custodians facilitating staking), together with reliance on their safety, compliance, and skill to function below adversarial circumstances. Moreover, staking rewards are topic to charges and potential withholding obligations, and the timing, quantity, and recognition (for tax functions) of staking rewards could also be unsure. Lastly, regulatory or authorized changes-such as U.S. federal earnings tax regulation or securities regulations-could have an effect on whether or not staking actions or liquid staking tokens could also be used, or whether or not they jeopardize the Belief’s qualification (e.g. as a grantor belief) or impose unanticipated prices.
Please observe that this isn’t an exhaustive checklist of dangers pertaining to the Belief. Please learn rigorously the prospectus for a whole checklist of potential dangers.
As a result of shares of the Belief are supposed to mirror the worth of the Solana held within the Belief, the market value of the shares is topic to fluctuations much like these affecting Solana costs. Moreover, shares of the Belief are purchased and bought at market value, not at web asset worth (“NAV”). Brokerage commissions will scale back returns.
Belief shares commerce like shares, are topic to funding threat, and can fluctuate in market worth. The worth of Belief shares relates on to the worth of the Solana held by the Belief (much less its bills), and fluctuations within the value of Solana might materially and adversely have an effect on an funding within the shares. The value obtained upon the sale of the shares, which commerce at market value, could also be kind of than the worth of the Solana represented by them. The Belief doesn’t generate any earnings, and as the Belief frequently points shares to pay for the Sponsor’s ongoing bills, the quantity of Solana represented by every Share will decline over time.
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