Solana updates this week confirm what many in crypto have quietly suspected: the network is no longer just a trader’s playground. It is becoming a real financial infrastructure. Two major institutional players have now put their weight behind it, and the on-chain numbers back that up.
Here is what happened.
SoFi Goes All-In on Solana
On April 2, 2026, SoFi announced the launch of SoFi Big Business Banking, a platform that lets companies manage U.S. dollars and crypto, including stablecoins, within its regulated bank.
This is a big deal. SoFi is a nationally chartered bank with more than 13.7 million members and over $50 billion in assets. It is not a startup experimenting with blockchain. It is a regulated, FDIC-insured institution putting SOL at the heart of its enterprise product.
SoFi CEO Anthony Noto explained the reasoning clearly: “To be competitive, businesses today must operate in a global, always-on environment, while legacy banks typically still operate 9-5 Monday to Friday.”
So what does this platform actually do? The service aims to replace the current patchwork of banks, stablecoin issuers, and custodians by enabling 24/7 deposits, conversions into SoFiUSD, and instant movement of funds on blockchain networks such as Solana.
Early participants include major crypto firms such as Cumberland, Bullish, BitGo, B2C2, Fireblocks, Wintermute, Galaxy, Jupiter, Mesh Payments, and Mastercard.
Worth noting: this builds on SoFi’s February 2026 milestone as the first U.S. national bank to support direct on-chain SOL deposits for its retail users. So this is not a pivot. It is an escalation.
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B2C2 Makes Solana Its Primary Settlement Network
A day before SoFi’s announcement, on April 1, another significant move came from B2C2. Crypto liquidity provider and trading firm B2C2 designated Solana as a core network for institutional stablecoin settlement, routing, and settling large-scale stablecoin transactions for its institutional clients primarily on the high-throughput, scalable Layer 1 blockchain.
Who is B2C2? It sits under SBI Holdings, one of Japan’s biggest financial conglomerates. Last year, Robinhood disclosed that B2C2 was one of its two primary crypto market makers in an SEC filing. Its other clients include Standard Chartered and Anchorage Digital.
B2C2 will support Solana-based versions of major stablecoins, including USDC, USDT, PYUSD, USDG, USD1, EURC, and FDUSD.
B2C2 Group CEO Thomas Restout was direct about it. “Solana has earned its place as fundamental financial infrastructure. We’re supporting real flow here because it delivers on the things that matter to our clients: speed, reliability, and scale. This is where settlement is heading,” he said.Â
On-Chain Activity Already Reflects the Shift
These are not just press release moves. The usage data had already been pointing this way.
Solana crossed 10 billion quarterly transactions for the first time in Q1 2026, hitting 10.1 billion, a roughly 50% jump from Q4 2025.
In February alone, Solana was the most active stablecoin network, recording $650 billion in transaction volume, more than double its prior monthly record.
Solana’s stablecoin market cap roughly tripled in 2025, ending the year at around $15 billion, up from just above $5 billion. Still, Solana trails Ethereum and Tron in stablecoin market cap by a significant margin. Growth is real, but the gap is too.
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Where Does Solana Go From Here?
Accelerate USA is roughly 30 days out. Solana’s ecosystem has already done a lot of the heavy lifting before the event even starts.
What makes these moves different from typical crypto partnership announcements is specificity. SoFi is not “exploring” blockchain. It built a regulated banking product on it. B2C2 is not piloting Solana. It made it the primary settlement layer for institutional clients.
Institutions are choosing Solana because it settles transactions in under a second at fractions of a cent. When you are routing billions in stablecoins daily, that performance gap over legacy rails is not a small thing.
That said, the price chart tells a more cautious story. SOL is down roughly 38% year to date. Spot Solana ETFs are seeing weak inflows. Adoption and price are clearly on different timelines right now.
But when a chartered bank and a major liquidity provider build actual financial products on a chain, that is committed infrastructure spend, not narrative. And historically, infrastructure investment tends to front-run price by a few cycles.
What is SoFi Big Business Banking?
It is an enterprise platform from SoFi that lets companies manage fiat and crypto, including stablecoins, under one regulated, nationally chartered bank. It runs 24/7 on Solana and other blockchain networks.
Why did B2C2 choose Solana over Ethereum?
B2C2 pointed to speed, reliability, and scale. Solana handles thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality and very low fees, which matters a lot at institutional settlement volumes.
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Has Solana’s price risen because of these updates?
Not really. SOL is down roughly 38% year to date as of early April 2026. Institutional adoption and price action are not moving in lockstep right now.
What is the Accelerate USA event?
It is a major upcoming Solana ecosystem event expected to showcase further developments across DeFi, AI, and institutional adoption on the network.
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