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SOL Strategies closes acquisition of Houdini Swap, reports Q2 2026 financials, and appoints Jon Matonis as Board Chairman
SOL Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL) (NASDAQ: STKE) ("SOL Strategies" or the "Company"), a digital asset infrastructure company focused on high performance blockchain and privacy technologies, today shared a corporate update for the month of May 2026.
Houdini Swap Acquisition Closed: On June 1, 2026, SOL Strategies closed its previously announced acquisition of HoudiniSwap LLC ("Houdini"), a non-custodial, privacy-focused cross-chain swap aggregator, for a total purchase price of USD $18 million, payable in a combination of cash and common shares. Houdini has processed approximately $2.5 billion in cumulative swap volume since launch and generated approximately USD $13 million in revenue in 2025. The platform maintains integrations with 32 exchange partners, including Jupiter and Solflare on the Solana network.
The cash component of the acquisition was financed through decentralized finance protocols on Solana using the Company's balance sheet, without selling treasury SOL. Full terms are available in the Company's press release here.
With the close, Houdini is now part of SOL Strategies' platform, adding established transactional revenue, multi-chain routing across more than 100 blockchain networks, and an experienced team.
Q2 2026 Financial Results: On May 18, 2026, SOL Strategies released its fiscal second quarter 2026 financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, covering staking and validation revenue, SOL holdings, and operational metrics for the period. Management hosted a live webcast and conference call to review financial and operational performance, provide updates on strategic initiatives, and address investor questions.
Board Appointment: On May 12, 2026 SOL Strategies announced the appointment of Jon Matonis as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Matonis is a founding director of the Bitcoin Foundation with over two decades of experience in financial cryptography and digital currency. He has held executive roles at VISA and VeriSign and has advised blockchain companies across multiple market cycles. He earned his bachelor's degree in Economics from George Washington University.
STKESOL Liquid Staking Platform:
- Total SOL Staked in STKESOL: 624,274 SOL
- Unique STKESOL Holders: 1,353
Validator Network Operations:
- Assets Under Delegation (AuD): 3,649,585 SOL (including treasury stake, liquid stake and third-party delegation)
- Unique Wallets Served: 33,591
- Validator Uptime: 100% across all proprietary validators
- Peak APY Delivered: 5.92% vs. 5.59% network average
- Net SOL earned in May from proprietary validators: 780 SOL
Company Treasury Holdings:
- Total Treasury SOL (including liquid staked SOL): 521,174 SOL (~CAD $57,631,420*)
*Source: Solscan at approximately 10:15AM ET on 06/01/2026
**Based on a SOL/CAD rate of 110.58 as published by Kraken at TIME ET on 06/01/2026
***Validator revenue net of voting costs
Management Commentary
Michael Hubbard, CEO of SOL Strategies, stated: "Closing Houdini was the headline, but what we're really looking at is a business that's been generating real revenue for years, $13 million in 2025 and $2.5 billion in cumulative volume, now operating inside our platform. We funded it without touching treasury SOL. Q2 results showed validator and staking reach continued to grow with the launch of our liquid staking token, STKESOL, and Jon Matonis joining as Chairman adds genuine depth in financial cryptography at a moment when that background is going to count. We're heading into the second half of 2026 with more revenue diversity than we've had at any point in our history, and the fundamentals underneath that are sound."
About SOL Strategies
SOL Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL) (NASDAQ: STKE) is a digital asset infrastructure company focused on high-performance blockchain and privacy technologies. Headquartered in Toronto, the Company operates staking infrastructure and privacy technology on public blockchain networks, serving a broad range of participants from individual SOL holders to institutional clients.
To learn more about SOL Strategies, please visit www.solstrategies.io. A copy of this news release and all the Company's related material documents regarding the Company may be obtained under the Company's profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
Investor Contacts:
Doug Harris, Chief Financial Officer, 416-480-2488
John Ragozzino, CFA, solstrategies@icrinc.com, 203-682-8284
Media Contact: solstrategies@scrib3.co
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This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward‐looking statements and information. More particularly and without limitation, this news release contains forward‐looking statements and information relating to the Company's or the Company's management team's expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and expectations regarding the characteristics, value drivers, and anticipated benefits of the Company's business plans and operations related thereto. Forward-looking information can also be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or indicates that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be" taken, "occur" or "be achieved".
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