TREE NEWS update: Solana decentralized exchange Orca is merging with lending protocol Loopscale, with the combined entity to be called Formation. The merged company will target financing for AI, energy, robotics and defense, the two said. Orca is one of Solana’s largest DEXes by volume, while Loopscale is a Solana-based credit and lending protocol.
Solana’s Orca merges with Loopscale to form Formation
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The pairing is notable less for scale than for direction: a Solana spot DEX is folding together with a credit and lending protocol, and the stated target is real-world sectors — AI, energy, robotics and defense — rather than more DeFi-native activity. That reframes the venue as a financing stack rather than a trading venue, and it puts Solana's on-chain liquidity and credit rails in front of institutional borrowers. Whether the merged entity can actually underwrite those sectors, and whether Orca's trading flow survives the integration, is the open question.
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