Just saw that SoFi, this bank, now supports Solana deposits and top-ups, so 13.7 million users can buy and sell SOL directly in the bank app without having to jump to other exchanges. Honestly, that’s kind of interesting, because traditional banks rarely integrate blockchain like this. This time, SoFi really has tied on-chain assets to banking services together.

Users can now manage checking, balances, and digital assets all in the same interface—it feels like the bank is finally taking crypto seriously. Also, SoFi is a legitimate national bank with an asset management scale of over 50 billion dollars, so this isn’t some small platform. In the U.S., banks doing this are indeed rare; most are still watching from the sidelines.

I’m curious whether this will prompt other banks to follow suit. If more traditional financial institutions provide compliant blockchain access like SoFi, it feels like the pace of mainstream adoption could speed up. Is anyone around you using it?