Solana treasury firm Solmate’s stock surges 50% amid plans for validator center and ‘aggressive M&A strategy’

Nasdaq-listed Solmate Infrastructure (ticker SLMT) saw its shares rip higher Thursday after announcing a business update on its validator process, M&A strategy, and PIPE financing.

Solmate has selected a data center to house its bare metal validators, which are expected to become the first performant Solana machines in the Middle East. The hardware for Solmate’s first validator has been assembled, and the firm is now testing its configuration using “SOL purchased at a historic discount to market prices,” according to the firm’s press release.

The company formerly known as Brera Holdings rebranded last month into a Solana-based digital asset treasury. At that time, the Solana Foundation, Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest, UAE-based Pulsar Group, and RockawayX participated in a $300 million private investment in private investment in public equity, or PIPE, offering for the company.

“Solmate is not just another treasury. It will execute on a durably differentiated strategy in a crowded field of look-alike DATs by building real crypto infrastructure in the UAE,” CEO Marco Santori, former chief legal officer of Kraken, said at the time.

In Wednesday’s press release, Solmate said it negotiated an amendment to its registration rights agreement with the U.S. and UAE-based participants of that PIPE financing. A registration statement relating to the PIPE Investor shares is now expected to be filed with the SEC by Nov. 22. This extension will ensure the company has maximum flexibility in its completion and announcement of new infrastructure, the firm said.

Solmate also said it will pursue an aggressive M&A strategy, exploring opportunities across the Solana value chain.

“We aren’t interested in simply bolting on smaller companies to generate revenue,” Santori stated in the release. “We are targeting businesses for which our SOL treasury will be fuel for their engine of growth — just like it is for ours — and will use that growth to accrete more SOL-per-share for Solmate investors.”

Last week, Solmate secured $50 million in discounted SOL from the Solana Foundation and said the tokens will power its UAE infrastructure footprint. Solana Foundation has supported multiple SOL-based digital asset treasuries with discounted token sales.

After hitting an intraday high of around $12.55, SLMT shares traded higher by 40% to $11.70 at publication time, giving the company a $754 million market capitalization.

According to The Block’s data, the five largest Solana treasury firms hold a combined 13 million SOL tokens, worth nearly $6.3 billion.