Category: Solana
Solana ETF Staking Rewards: 21Shares’ Historic $0.32 Payout and What It Means for 2026
On February 17, 2026, 21Shares will make history by distributing $0.316871 per share in staking rewards to holders of its Solana ETF (TSOL), marking the first time a major U.S. crypto ETF has passed native blockchain yield directly through brokerage accounts. With Solana’s network staking yield hovering at 5–8% annually and TSOL’s AUM around $1.19 billion across U.S. Solana ETFs, this payout highlights a key differentiator: SOL ETFs aren’t just price trackers—they’re income‑generating products competing with traditional fixed income.
Alpenglow and Firedancer: Solana’s 2026 Scalability Leap
Solana is gearing up for its most ambitious upgrade cycle yet in 2026: Alpenglow, a complete rewrite of consensus and propagation layers targeting 100–150ms finality (100x faster than today’s 12.8s), and Firedancer, a new validator client with 1M TPS in tests. These changes address past outage risks, monoculture vulnerabilities, and throughput limits, positioning Solana to challenge Ethereum’s L2 dominance while courting institutional workloads like RWA tokenization and high‑frequency trading.