Solana Company stock jumped 14.51% after the firm announced it's enabling institutional borrowing against natively staked $SOL held in qualified custody.

What this means in practice is that institutions can now use their staked $SOL as collateral to borrow against, without having to unstake it first.

That's a meaningful shift in how staked assets function within traditional financial infrastructure. Normally, staking locks your tokens. You earn yield, but you sacrifice liquidity. If you need capital, you have to unstake, wait through the unbonding period, and stop earning rewards.

This new structure lets institutions keep their $SOL staked, continue earning staking yield, and simultaneously borrow against the value of those staked assets. It's collateralized lending, but with the collateral still productive. From a capital efficiency standpoint, that's powerful.

Institutions can maintain their staking positions for governance, rewards, and long-term exposure while accessing liquidity for operational needs, trading strategies, or leverage.

The market's reaction—a 14.51% stock surge—suggests investors see this as either validation of Solana's infrastructure maturity or a signal that institutional demand for SOL-based financial products is real and growing. Probably both.

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