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Solana (SOL) Surpasses Ethereum (ETH) with Institutional Inflows
With the rise in the price movement of these cryptocurrencies, the investment-related products have eventually witnessed a net capital inflow in the recent 6 weeks.

Solana is again getting a significant position among the top market players as most of the crypto assets are progressing. With the rise in the price movement of these cryptocurrencies, the investment-related products have eventually witnessed a net capital inflow in the recent 6 weeks. As per the latest report that CoinShares published, Bitcoin takes the credit for the majority of the respective inflow.
Solana Outperforms Ethereum as Its Inflows Witness a Significant Rise
On the other hand, the market of altcoins recorded outflows in the previous week. However, as Bitcoin begins to regain the momentum of inflows, Solana has carried on its positive movement. Solana’s investment products have seen huge inflows of approximately $5 million. The altcoin has been making an epic run throughout this year. In addition to this, it has shown better results in comparison with most of the altcoins.

Cryptocurrency keeps on repeating its elevating place among investors. During this year, it witnessed outflows in only 4 weeks while its inflows prolonged for 27 weeks. Nonetheless, altcoins such as XRP and Solana have additionally had inflows recently. Particularly, Ethereum has to struggle a lot to get momentum from institutional investors.
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CoinShares’ statistics disclose that investor interest is very low in the case of Ethereum. Even though Ethereum remains the dominant entity for smart contracts and DeFi, the investment products thereof recorded $1.5M in outflows last week. The rest of the altcoins such as Tron, XRP, and Litecoin had not witnessed net inflows/outflows.
Total Value Locked of the Token Sees 64% Growth
Nevertheless, Multi-asset investment and short Bitcoin products also saw outflows of up to $1.4M and $1.5M respectively. Apart from that, Solana has experienced growth in the rest of the aspects related to its ecosystem. These features may have allured institutional investors. As per DefiLlama the total value locked of Solana just touched an exclusive high from the year at nearly $336.77M. This signifies an enormous growth of almost 64%.
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