One Piece Magazine Tokenized on Solana as SOL Trades Near $109
Solana (SOL)
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Eugene Serbin
bitcoinethereumnews.com reports that Phygitals has tokenized a rare 1997 Shonen Jump magazine featuring the debut of One Piece on the Solana blockchain. The publication, originally issue No. 34, is one of only 118 graded copies remaining worldwide, as most were discarded as throwaway newsprint. Solana promoted the launch on Friday, marking the first time a manga has been tokenized in history.
Buyers receive a digital pack pointing to an authenticated slab held in vault custody, which can be redeemed for physical shipment at any time. Authentication is critical because reprints and fakes flood resale sites, with graded slabs trading in a separate market from ungraded prints. Heritage Auctions previously sold a Beckett-graded copy in March, highlighting the value of professional grading.
Phygitals ensures every token is backed by one graded item, retiring the digital copy upon redemption. This model tests whether manga fandom can replicate the liquidity seen in trading cards. The move comes as the RWA market cap reached $71 billion and Solana posted record onchain activity in August.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for SOL, measured when this story was written up on 28 August 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Solana is trading at $109.14, showing a buy ratio of 47.1% over the last hour and 41.8% over four hours, which is lower than the 53.7% seen over the past day. This indicates that short-term buying pressure is fading compared to the broader daily trend. Volume deltas reflect this shift, with -$1,156,634 in the last hour and -$9,632,374 over four hours, contrasting with a positive $40,126,001 for the 24-hour period. The Cumulative Volume Delta closed at -$5,316,003, suggesting that recent trades have been net-sell oriented despite the higher daily ratio. Spot volume for the day reached $544,689,099 across 2,268,943 trades. The flow shows a divergence between immediate selling pressure and sustained daily accumulation.
The latest daily buy ratio of 48.8% sits at the 27th percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 50.0% - weaker buying than most days.
Twenty-four hours later
What SOL did over the 24 hours after the story broke. The market moves for its own reasons; this is what happened, not what the story caused.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for SOL, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, Solana saw net buying on all seven days, with a 7-day average buy ratio of 52.5%. The latest day's ratio was 1.2 points above this average, and volume was 1.24 times the weekly average. This places the current day as an unusually active period for the coin, contributing to a 24.5% price increase over eight days. The total volume delta for the week was +$193,216,755, confirming strong sustained demand. Compared to the 24-hour readings, the weekly context shows a more consistent and positive accumulation pattern than the recent hourly dip.