Morgan Stanley filed paperwork on Tuesday to list exchange-traded funds tied to Solana and Bitcoin, marking its first products of this kind in the U.S. SOL funds have drawn $801 million within six months, while Bitwise's BSOL leads with $730 million and a 6.75% staking yield. According to TradingView, SOL rose 9% over the past week to $138, with $5.5 billion in volume.

In early 2026, Solana gained momentum as Morgan Stanley submitted an S-1 to register the "Morgan Stanley Solana ETF Trust" with the SEC. While Bitcoin ETFs recently posted about $240 million in net outflows and Ethereum and Solana ETFs saw inflows of $115 million and $9.2 million, Solana's TVL rose roughly 9% this week versus about 6% for Ethereum. The SOL/ETH ratio has climbed around 3% from key support, reviving debate over whether institutional flows are tilting Solana's way compared with Ethereum.

Perplexity’s AI model has outlined new price projections for XRP, Sui Network and Shiba Inu for the end of 2026, suggesting all three altcoins could register fresh all-time highs in an expected bull market. The bot sees XRP potentially reaching $9 from around $2.19, SUI climbing from $1.85 to about $9.26, and SHIB surging toward $0.00009 if key resistance levels are broken. These scenarios are based on recent momentum, technical indicators and ecosystem developments, and do not constitute investment advice.

During Monday's session, Shiba Inu briefly moved back above $0.00001 for the first time in 56 days before slipping to around $0.0000087. The bounce, driven by short-term speculation, coincided with a bullish flip in the 50-day SMA, while analysts now monitor a possible breakout from a 21-month falling wedge that could imply upside scenarios of roughly 270% to 430%.

BNB Chain's Layer 2 opBNB executed the Fourier mainnet hard fork at 03:00 UTC on January 7, reducing block intervals from 500 ms to 250 ms. According to BNB Chain developers, the upgrade targets faster confirmations and lower latency for dApps, with node operators moving to op-node v0.5.5 and op-geth v0.5.9.

Solana registered $6.701 billion in 24-hour DEX volume, surpassing the combined activity of all L1 and L2 networks, while SOL nears the $150 resistance. Over the same period, Solana ETFs saw $801.31 million of inflows and open interest rose, pointing to deeper participation as traders evaluate whether price can clear this level.

Stablecoins on the Solana blockchain added $900 million over a 24-hour period on Tuesday, lifting the segment to a $15.3 billion market cap. The jump coincided with Jupiter launching its JupUSD stablecoin in partnership with Ethena. USDC represented more than 67% of Solana's stablecoin supply.

On January 7, Flare announced the launch of FXRP on Hyperliquid's spot markets, adding an FXRP/USDC pair and enabling on-chain spot exposure to XRP through an orderbook DEX. FXRP, issued via Flare's FAssets and LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible Token standard, lets XRP move from XRPL to Flare, trade on Hyperliquid, and return for settlement while preserving custody and DeFi utility. Early market data shows FXRP trading around $2.29 with rising volume, as Flare and Hyperliquid integrate XRP into a growing on-chain trading and XRPFi ecosystem.