ETF investors don’t seem to be shying away from Solana’s pullbacks. The first U.S. Solana staking ETF, SSK by REX Shares, pulled in $10.6M in net inflows today, stretching its streak to two weeks straight. That kind of consistency, even in a dip, says a lot about how institutional sentiment toward $SOL is evolving.

Meanwhile, on the DeFi side, different kinds of experiments are unfolding. In just over two days, $FF will go live on BingX, and I’m planning to place a small trade at launch just to see how the market reacts in those early moments. Fresh listings have a way of revealing truths about liquidity, trader sentiment, and whether a project’s design resonates beyond the whitepaper.

So here’s the bigger thought, while ETFs show us how institutions manage conviction through inflows and DeFi listings highlight how communities stress-test governance and strategy, do you think traditional and decentralized finance are slowly learning from each other, or are they still worlds apart?