{"id":295692,"date":"2025-04-15T21:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/3iq-and-figment-to-launch-north-americas-first-solana-staking-etf\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T21:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:56:45","slug":"3iq-and-figment-to-launch-north-americas-first-solana-staking-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/3iq-and-figment-to-launch-north-americas-first-solana-staking-etf\/","title":{"rendered":"3iQ and Figment to launch North America\u2019s first Solana staking ETF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/crypto-news-Solana-option08.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">3iQ Corp. has tapped Figment as the primary staking provider for its new Solana Staking ETF (TSX: SOLQ), which officially launches on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Wednesday at 9:30 AM EST.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement represents the first product of its kind in North America to incorporate native Solana (<a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/price\/solana\">SOL<\/a>) staking rewards into an exchange-traded format.<\/p>\n<p>SOLQ gives investors regulated, exchange-traded access to Solana\u2019s native <a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/tag\/staking\/\">staking <\/a>yield, traditionally reserved for crypto-native users who either run validator nodes or delegate tokens to existing validators, without the complexity of self-custody or direct protocol interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Figment, a longtime Solana ecosystem player and one of its genesis validators, will handle staking operations on behalf of the <a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/tag\/etf\/\">ETF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>The company brings a robust infrastructure to the table: over $15 billion in assets staked across 40+ protocols, a perfect slashing prevention record, and a client base of over 700 institutional partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy combining institutional-grade staking infrastructure with traditional investment vehicles, we\u2019re making sustainable staking yields accessible to a new class of investors,\u201d said Lorien Gabel, CEO and co-founder of Figment.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3iQ continues its push into staking ETFs<\/h2>\n<p>This move builds on 3iQ\u2019s history of pioneering digital asset products in traditional markets. The firm previously launched the world\u2019s first Ether Staking ETF in 2023, and the Bitcoin ETF (TSX: BTCQ), which became the first Bitcoin ETP to trade on a major global stock exchange.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAt 3iQ, we are proud to continue our tradition of innovation,\u201d said 3iQ President and CEO Pascal St-Jean. \u201cThis product reinforces our commitment to aligning with top-tier partners who share our vision for unlocking the full value of the digital asset ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/3iq-and-figment-to-launch-north-americas-first-solana-staking-etf\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3iQ Corp. has tapped Figment as the primary staking provider for its new Solana Staking ETF (TSX: SOLQ), which officially launches on the Toronto Stock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}