Weekly Market Highlights - Solana Futures ETFs Hit The Market

21 March 2025Macro/TradFiNasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange are moving towards 24/7 trading, mimicking crypto's round-the-clock hours.The Fed held interest rates steady during Wednesday’s FOMC, but also approved plans to slow the rate of quantitative tightening.Metaplanet Inc. appoints Eric Trump to its new strategic advisory board and acquires 150 more BTC, raising its total to 3,200.Volatility Shares launched the first U.S. Solana futures ETFs on Thursday: SOLZ for Solana futures exposure and SOLT for 2x daily Solana returns.Pakistan plans to create a legal framework for cryptocurrency trading to attract international investment. The country aims to establish clear regulations for digital assets to boost the local ecosystem.CryptoL1/L2:BNB Chain surpasses Solana in DEX trading volume, with memecoins driving a surge to US$1.64B.BNB Chain completes the Pascal Hardfork to enhance transaction efficiency and EVM compatibility.XRP surged 10% Wednesday morning after Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced the SEC will drop its appeal against Ripple.On March 18, EOS Network announced its rebrand to Vaulta, shifting strategically towards Web3 banking to merge decentralized tech with traditional finance.DeFi:Securitize and Ethena launch Converge, an Ethereum-compatible blockchain to bring DeFi to tokenized real-world assets.Others:Binance launches Alpha 2.0, integrating it into the trading platform and Binance Wallet. This next-gen solution bridges centralized and decentralized exchanges, enhancing liquidity, capital efficiency, and user accessibility.Binance Wallet launches zero-fee trading on all trading pairs from March until September 2025.Latest Binance Research Publications Check out our latest publications:Where Are Our Airdrops Going?The Future of Bitcoin #4: DeFiSustainable Tokenomics: Questions Every Founder Should Think AboutExplore our Binance Research website for more project and macro research.For more frequent market updates and insights, follow us on Twitter @BinanceResearch.That’s a wrap!Binance ResearchAbout Binance Research: Binance Research is the research arm of Binance, the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange. The team is committed to delivering objective, independent, and comprehensive analysis and aims to be the thought leader in the crypto space. Our analysts publish insightful thought pieces regularly on topics related but not limited to, the crypto ecosystem, blockchain technologies, and the latest market themes.General Disclosure: This material is prepared by Binance Research and is not intended to be relied upon as a forecast or investment advice, and is not a recommendation, offer or solicitation to buy or sell any securities, cryptocurrencies or to adopt any investment strategy. The use of terminology and the views expressed are intended to promote understanding and the responsible development of the sector and should not be interpreted as definitive legal views or those of Binance. The opinions expressed are as of the date shown above and are the opinions of the writer, they may change as subsequent conditions vary. The information and opinions contained in this material are derived from proprietary and non-proprietary sources deemed by Binance Research to be reliable, are not necessarily all-inclusive and are not guaranteed as to accuracy. As such, no warranty of accuracy or reliability is given and no responsibility arising in any other way for errors and omissions (including responsibility to any person by reason of negligence) is accepted by Binance. This material may contain ’forward looking’ information that is not purely historical in nature. Such information may include, among other things, projections and forecasts. There is no guarantee that any forecasts made will come to pass. Reliance upon information in this material is at the sole discretion of the reader. This material is intended for information purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or an offer or solicitation to purchase or sell in any securities, cryptocurrencies or any investment strategy nor shall any securities or cryptocurrency be offered or sold to any person in any jurisdiction in which an offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the laws of such jurisdiction. Investment involves risks.