Real estate fintech Janover doubles Solana holdings with $10.5M buy

Real estate-focused financial technology firm Janover has acquired 80,567 Solana tokens for roughly $10.5 million.

According to an April 15 announcement, with its latest purchase, Janover’s Solana (SOL) holdings reached 163,651.7 — worth about $21.2 million, including staking rewards. With this investment, the amount of Solana per each of the 1.5 million shares reached 0.11 SOL, valued at $14.47 — an increase of 120%.

Janover stock price chart. Source: Google Finance

Janover plans to start staking the newly acquired SOL immediately to generate additional revenue. The announcement follows the company raising about $42 million with the expressed intent to enhance its digital asset treasury strategy.

The new capital was raised in a convertible note and warrants sale from Pantera Capital, Kraken, Arrington Capital, Protagonist, The Norstar Group, Third Party Ventures, Trammell Venture Partners and 11 angel investors. At the same time, a team of former Kraken executives has taken control of the company.

Joseph Onorati, former chief strategy officer at Kraken, stepped in as chairman and CEO at Janover following the group’s purchase of over 700,000 common shares and all Series A preferred stock.

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Janover is one of the latest companies to decide to add digital assets to their corporate treasury. What makes it an outlier is the decision to accumulate an asset that is not Bitcoin (BTC).

The most notable example of a Bitcoin-accumulating firm is Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). Strategy is a publicly traded business intelligence company founded as MicroStrategy in 1989.

In 2020, the firm pivoted to acquiring as much Bitcoin as possible. Strategy now holds well over 2.5% of all Bitcoin that will ever be produced.

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BitcoinTreasuries.NET data shows that Strategy holds 528,185 BTC worth nearly $44.2 billion at the time of writing. The company has leveraged debt to accumulate its Bitcoin.

Another example of a company that is now focused on accumulating Bitcoin is Metaplanet, often referred to as “Japan’s MicroStrategy.” Both companies hold Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation and as part of a broader strategy to diversify and modernize their treasuries.

According to some analysts, this strategy may soon pay off. Bitcoin is showing growing resilience to macroeconomic headwinds compared with traditional financial markets, according to a recent Wintermute report. Still, not everyone is convinced that the trend will hold, with the founder of Obchakevich Research, Alex Obchakevich, saying:

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