Solana is making an institutional case built on real world asset inflows, changes in validator infrastructure, and zero downtime during the Oct. 20 AWS outage.

The chain’s RWA footprint sits near the top of its range, blue-chip issuers have gone live natively on Solana rails, and validators are skewing toward bare-metal and diverse data centers, all while fees remain below the cost profile common on major Ethereum rollups.

Solana hosts about $628.98 million of tokenized real-world assets today, with a recent peak near 700 million. That total now includes Franklin Templeton’s FOBXX support on Solana and Circle’s USYC money market fund, which adds a permissioned cash and T-bills instrument alongside USDC on the same chain.

For institutions that require familiar fund wrappers and straight-through subscription and redemption flows, those programs create compliant pipes directly on Solana rather than through bridged facsimiles.

Operational optics improved at the same time.

Solana’s official status page shows 100 percent uptime over the last 60 days, and no incident during the Oct. 20 window when AWS experienced a widespread service degradation.

The AWS event affected a broad set of Web2 and fintech services centered on us-east-1 with DynamoDB and DNS at issue. A clean run through that outage does not prove fault-tolerance under all conditions, however it is a concrete data point for risk committees that map correlated cloud exposure across stack layers.

Validator infrastructure data supports the cloud-risk read-through. Today’s top autonomous systems by active stake feature TeraSwitch at about 26.3 percent, Latitude.sh at about 14 percent, Cherry Servers at about 5.2 percent, and OVH at about 4.0 percent, while Amazon’s combined ASNs account for roughly 6.4 percent, according to validators.app.

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Author: Gino Matos