Helius Medical Technologies announced Monday that it secured $500 million through an oversubscribed private investment in public equity (PIPE) offering led by Pantera Capital to build a Solana treasury focused on acquiring SOL. ”
The offering includes an additional $750 million in stapled warrants, potentially bringing the total Solana treasury capital to $1.25 billion, according to the company’s press release. ”
Beyond Pantera Capital, Summer Capital joined the round as one of Asia’s earliest licensed fund managers to invest in crypto. ”
The investor lineup featured a robust group including Big Brain Holdings, Avenir, SinoHope, FalconX, Arrington Capital, Animoca Brands, Aspen Digital, Borderless, Laser Digital, HashKey Capital, and Republic Digital. ”
The SOL treasury strategy will be guided by Director and Executive Chairman Joseph Chee (founder and chairman of Summer Capital and former head of investment banking, Asia at UBS). ”
The strategy will also be guided by Board Observer Cosmo Jiang (general partner at Pantera Capital) and adviser Dan Morehead (founder and managing partner of Pantera Capital). ”
Helius executives noted Solana’s position as the fastest-growing blockchain historically, leading the industry in transaction revenue while processing over 3,500 transactions per second. ”
The executives also emphasized SOL’s financial productivity through design, offering a roughly 7% native staking yield, which contrasts with non-yield-bearing assets like Bitcoin. ”
The company plans to capitalize on Solana’s native yield-generating architecture and capture opportunities in DeFi and broader on-chain activity. ”
“We believe that Solana is a category-defining blockchain and the foundation on which a new financial system will be built,” said Dan Morehead, founder and managing partner of Pantera Capital. ”
Following the announcement, Helius stock (HSDT) surged over 159%, jumping from Friday’s close of $7.91 to $45.51 before settling at $19.63 at press time, based on Yahoo Finance data. ”
Source: Yahoo Finance ”
This pattern has become familiar among Nasdaq-listed companies announcing digital asset treasury initiatives. ”
BitMine’s stock price jumped from $4.26 to $26.06, a 511.02% intraday increase, when the company announced its crypto-focused treasury strategy in June. ”
The market appears to be entering “Solana season,” similar to when Ethereum attracted companies like Sharplink Gaming and BitMine to launch ETH treasuries that later accumulated billions of dollars in Ether.
