Interactive Brokers lists SOL

Interactive Brokers has opened Solana trading to eligible retail clients across the European Economic Area through its Ireland unit and Zero Hash. (businesswire.com) The rollout, announced on March 31, lets those clients trade 11 crypto-assets in the same account they use for stocks, options, futures, bonds, and funds. Solana is on that list alongside Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Cardano, Dogecoin, Avalanche, Chainlink, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Sui. (theblock.co) Interactive Brokers says crypto-assets on the platform trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with commissions of 0.12% to 0.18% of trade value and a $1.75 minimum per order. Its Ireland site says execution is handled by Zerohash Europe B.V. and that there are no added spreads, markups, or custody fees. (interactivebrokers.com) (interactivebrokers.ie) For Solana, the change is less about the token’s code than the route investors use to buy it. A large listed brokerage is now offering a regulated, familiar path into Solana for European retail clients instead of sending them to a separate crypto-native exchange. (businesswire.com) (theblock.co) The move also lands under Europe’s new Markets in Crypto-Assets framework, which has pushed brokers and exchanges to package crypto trading inside regulated entities. Interactive Brokers said its Irish affiliate is an authorized crypto-asset service provider in the region. (cointelegraph.com) (theblock.co) Price action turned higher into mid-April. CoinCodex data shows Solana closed at $81.55 on April 13 and $86.54 on April 14, with daily volume rising from $4.39 billion to $4.51 billion. (coincodex.com) Other market trackers showed the token hovering in the mid-$80s on April 15. Yahoo Finance listed Solana at $83.64 at 5:05 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time, while CoinCodex showed a last-24-hour price of $86.02 and CoinGecko listed April 15 volume at about $4.74 billion. (finance.yahoo.com) (coincodex.com) (coingecko.com) Solana is still well below the highs it reached earlier in its cycle. CoinCodex’s 52-week data in mid-April put the range at roughly $68 to $295, which leaves the token trading far from its peak even after this week’s bounce. (investing.com) The immediate test is whether new brokerage access translates into sustained buying after the launch week. For now, the clearest change is that Solana can be bought inside an Interactive Brokers account in Europe, at brokerage commissions the firm says start at 12 basis points. (interactivebrokers.ie)