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Solana Hits Bloomberg Terminal With Galaxy-Backed Index

SOL is only the third crypto with a standalone index developed by Bloomberg-Galaxy.

(Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Bloomberg LP and Galaxy Digital on Monday released a Solana index, making SOL only the third crypto asset – after BTC and ETH – with a standalone price tracker developed by the pair.

The launch signals Wall Street investors’ interest in a token that has surged over 11,700% in the past 12 months, according to Messari. Carrying ticker symbol SOL, it went live on Monday across Bloomberg terminals globally, Galaxy Head of Europe Tim Grant said in a LinkedIn post.

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More SOL-linked investment products could debut as a result, he said.

Bloomberg and Galaxy have now issued five total crypto indexes since starting their collaboration in 2018.

Danny Nelson

Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

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