Nasdaq-Traded Solana Company Plans to Tokenize Shares via Superstate

Nasdaq-Traded Solana Company Plans to Tokenize Shares via Superstate

Solana Company (HSDT)—formerly Helius Medical Technologies—intends to tokenize its shares on Superstate’s Opening Bell regulated platform, the SOL-focused treasury company announced Wednesday.

HSDT investors will be able “to hold and transfer tokenized representations” of the company’s shares on Opening Bell, giving them round-the-clock access to trading and real-time settlement, Solana Company said in a statement. The shares will retain their “current regulatory structure and investor protections.” Opening Bell allows companies to move stocks on-chain.

“The tokenization of HSDT through Superstate represents a major step toward realizing the vision of global, around-the-clock capital markets, and we believe the majority of that activity will take place on Solana,” said Cosmo Jiang, a Solana Company board director and general partner at venture capital giant Pantera Capital. 

Pantera co-led Solana Company’s $500 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing, which closed in September. The crypto-focused venture capital giant, which has invested heavily in treasuries in recent months, reportedly intends to raise $1.25 billion toward Solana Company, which trades on the Nasdaq and rebranded from Helius in late September. Pantera was also an early investor in Superstate.

Other publicly traded treasury companies have also been eyeing tokenization initiatives, including Ethereum treasury FG Nexus, which last month announced a partnership with Securitize to tokenize its shares. In September, Forward Industries, the largest of the Solana treasuries, also announced its intention to tokenize its stock.