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Fidelity Crypto has added Solana to its supported assets, expanding beyond Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The update applies across all Fidelity Digital Assets platforms, including Fidelity Crypto for retail users, IRAs, wealth managers, and institutional trading.

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Fidelity Crypto adds Solana support, extending its lineup beyond Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin

1) Crypto market — global and growing. • Total market capitalization > $4T. • Mobile wallet users — all-time high (+20% YoY). • Active on-chain users: 40–70m (≈ +10m per year) • Total crypto holders: ~716m (+16% YoY). • Active addresses over 30 days: ~181m (−18% YoY). • Revenue-generating activity (fees): Hyperliquid + Solana account for 53% of fees by a16z metric among all crypto projects. • Developers: core — Bitcoin, Ethereum (+L2), Solana; interest in Solana +78% over 2 years. 2) USA: regulatory "thaw" and institutions. • GENIUS Act — signed and in effect (stablecoin law). • CLARITY Act — passed the House of Representatives (not yet law). • ETP on BTC/ETH: over $175B in real assets (+169% YoY). • DAT companies hold about 4% of BTC/ETH market issuance. • ETP + DAT ≈ 10% of BTC/ETH market issuance. DAT companies — public "digital asset treasury": hold crypto on their own balance sheets (like a "treasury"). Example: Strategy with BTC and Bitmine with ETH. And ETP - Bitcoin ETF and similar financial products. 3) Stablecoins — the "backbone" of on-chain economy. • $46T - raw transfer volume / $9T adjusted transfers over 12 months (+106% / +87% YoY). September this year: about $1.25T adjusted transfers. Adjusted transfers — "cleaned" transaction volume excluding bots/cycles (closer to real usage). • Stablecoin issuance = just over $300B; USDT + USDC = 87% of the market. • In September, Ethereum + Tron accounted for 64% of adjusted volume ($772B). • Already more than 1% of all dollars exist as stablecoins; issuers are the 17th largest holder of US government bonds (total > $150B). • By 2030, the stablecoin market could grow to > $3T. • Circle IPO. • Stripe announced plans to acquire Bridge (stablecoin infrastructure). • SEC documents: +64% mentions of "stablecoins". 4) DEX / RWA / DePIN / Memecoins / NFT. • DEX ≈ 1/5 of spot trading; futures grew almost 8 times (YoY). Hyperliquid is one of the drivers. • RWA: market ~ $30B (×4 in 2 years). • DePIN: frontier outside DeFi. WEF forecasts ≈ $3.5T by 2028. • Prediction markets (Polymarket/Kalshi): billions of $ volume monthly, nearly 5× growth since early 2025. • Memecoins: over 13m launches in a year; in September = −56% compared to January this year. Market cooling down. • NFT: volumes below 2022 peak, but number of unique buyers is growing. 5) Infrastructure almost ready for "prime time" • Total network throughput >3,400 TPS (transactions per second). 100× growth in 5 years! • Solana: low fees; ~ $3B annual revenue for native dApps; upgrades ≈ ×2 by year-end. • Ethereum L2: average transaction cost dropped from $24 (2021) to less than $0.01; activity shifted towards Arbitrum / Base / Optimism. 6) Privacy comeback. • Zcash shielded ~4M ZEC • Railgun > $200M/month; • EF launched privacy team; • Paxos × Aleo → USAD; • OFAC lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash. About 6.2–6.5m BTC are vulnerable! Public keys already exposed, equivalent to ~$750B at current prices; Explanation: If a "cryptographically relevant" quantum computer appears one day, it will be able to compute the private key from the public key (Shor's algorithms break ECDSA/Schnorr). 7) Crypto × AI • World (ex-Worldcoin): >17M "human, not bot" verifications (proof-of-personhood). • x402: emerging internet standard for AI agent micropayments (HTTP 402). Cloudflare + Coinbase launched x402 Foundation; idea — embed payments directly into web interactions (agents pay APIs/each other without cards and banks). • Gartner projects "machine client" economy up to $30T by 2030, but sector immaturity risks are very high.