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Justin Bieber Paid $1.3 Million for a Bored Ape NFT. It's Now Worth $12K. Pop music icon Justin Bieber paid $1.3 million worth of ETH for a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT in 2022. The NFT now is worth less than 6 ETH, or around $12,000, as NFTs and Ethereum have fallen in value. Even common Bored Apes at were trading for as much as $429,000 in 2022 before collapsing
Solana ETFs Hit a Weekly High as Altcoin Deposits Surge. Solana ETFs flows are showing signs of bouncing back, even as SOL struggles to find upward mobility. The Solana funds just pulled in $6.7 million, bringing the category's total assets under management to $689.8 million according to data maintained by crypto data and research firm Farside Investors. The list includes the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF, or BSOL; VanEck Solana ETF, or VSOL; Fidelity Solana Fund, FSOL; 21Shares Solana ETF, or TSOL; Franklin Solana Trust, or SOEZ; and the Grayscale Solana Staking ETF, or GSOL. ETF flows sometimes lag spot price action, particularly in newer crypto funds where allocators tend to be longer-term and less reactive to short-term volatility. SOL funds began trading in the U.S. in October and November 2025.
Kraken-backed xStocks have launched on the TON blockchain, making tokenized versions of U.S. stocks and ETFs readily available inside the Telegram app through its built-in TON Wallet. The integration allows users to buy, hold, and transfer tokenized representations of equities such as Tesla, Nvidia, and the S&P 500 ETF without leaving the messaging app. “Embedding tokenized U.S. stocks into Telegram Wallet is a massive UX unlock,” Dan Dadybayo, research and strategy lead at Unstoppable Wallet, told Decrypt. With it, “stocks start to feel like a native internet object, not a brokerage product,” he added. “For many users, especially outside the U.S. or EU, this is the first time equities are one tap away: no broker account, no complex onboarding, fractional by default,” he noted. “That said, there’s a key friction point people underestimate: these assets still trade 24/5, not true 24/7.”
Privacy coins Canton and Midnight have outperformed the market today, with Zcash and Monero also posting gains after the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation announced it will issue tokenized securities on Canton Network. As of writing, Canton has posted a 7% gain en route to $0.07615, while Midnight is up by 2.5% in the past 24 hours, at $0.06397, according to CoinGecko data.