Solana attracted growing institutional interest in the first quarter as its real-world asset market capitalization rose 43% quarter-over-quarter to $2.01 billion, according to a new Messari report cited by CoinDesk. BlackRock's tokenized money market fund BUIDL grew to $525.4 million on Solana after Anchorage Digital added custody support, while Ondo Finance launched more than 200 tokenized stocks and ETFs via Ondo Global Markets. Franklin Templeton partnered with Ondo for onchain ETF products, and Citigroup completed a trade finance proof-of-concept on Solana with PwC. Payment firms including Visa, Stripe, Worldpay, Western Union and PayPal integrated the network for stablecoin settlement, with Solana's stablecoin market cap reaching $14.85 billion. Messari also flagged the upcoming Alpenglow upgrade, expected to reduce transaction finality from roughly 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds.