DeFi Development Corp purchased 5,346 SOL, bringing its reserve to approximately 2,595,612 SOL as of October 26, 2026. The Nasdaq-listed company, trading under the ticker DFDV, primarily funds its purchases through capital raises in public markets, having raised hundreds of millions of dollars since 2025. It stakes its SOL and operates its own validators to generate rewards, while the annual dividend on its CHAD preferred stock rises from 13% to 14% on November 2, 2026. These transactions followed the launch of Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade, which aims to reduce transaction finality to around 150 milliseconds.
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