Brera Holdings, an Ireland-based international holding company, on Thursday said that it will be rebranded as Solmate, a Solana-based digital asset treasury (DAT) and crypto infrastructure company, following an oversubscribed $300 million private investment in public equity offering.
The public equity offering is sponsored by the Abu Dhabi-based technology and blockchain advisory firm Pulsar Group, with backing secured from the Solana Foundation, RockawayX, and traditional investment firms like ARK Invest.
Marco Santori, former Kraken Chief Legal Officer, will become Solmate’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Brera Holdings said.
Solmate is a Solana-based crypto infrastructure company with backing from both the Solana Foundation and unparalleled access to capital from the prominent UAE investors.
Solmate expects to enter into a definitive agreement, following an already-executed letter of intent with the Solana Foundation, which would lower the entry price for $SOL accumulation, allowing Solmate to supercharge $SOL-per-share growth into the future.
Solmate aims to place Solana’s blockchain-based solutions at the heart of the UAE’s digital transformation agenda through the deployment of cutting-edge infrastructure and performant staking strategies.
It intends to direct a portion of the funds secured into revenue-generating crypto infrastructure projects in the UAE, the first of which will be bare metal servers in Abu Dhabi configured to outperform typical DAT validator strategies.
Solmate’s planned Solana validator would, for the first time, allow regional investors the opportunity to capitalise on Solana’s native yield-generating capability with a performant SOL validator in the Middle East.
Solana is recognised as the fastest-growing blockchain in the world, processing more transactions and generating more on-chain revenue than all other blockchains combined.
Natively yield-generating, unlike BTC, the Solana network is forecast to outgrow the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks in the next three years as it continues to add more new developers than any other chain every month.
Durably Differentiated Strategy
Marco Santori said that Solmate will execute on a durably differentiated strategy in a crowded field of look-alike DATs by building real crypto infrastructure in the UAE.
He added: “Our stakeholders have deep, long-term conviction in the Solana ecosystem and will demand that we accumulate SOL through bull markets and bear markets alike. Solmate is well-positioned as Solana adoption accelerates across institutional markets, DeFi, NFTs and AI.”
Pulsar Group CEO Alyazi Al Khattal said that they were committed to positioning Solana at the heart of the UAE’s digital transformation.
By empowering Solmate to build exclusive partnerships and leverage Solana’s unique proximity to key regional stakeholders, together they expect to accelerate adoption, nurture a dynamic developer community, and facilitate major blockchain innovation across the region, he affirmed.
Solmate Board Member and legendary economist Dr Arthur Laffer said that throughout history, sound money has been the foundation of strong economies. Digital assets, as a return to private, rules-based money, represent one of the most positive steps forward in global monetary history.
“By tapping into the strength of the Solana ecosystem, Solmate brings that same discipline into digital asset management, offering institutions a powerful way to safeguard and grow value for informed investors,” he added.
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