Solana Launch: the Foundation's ship-faster product hub

If you search "Solana launch" you will find token launchpads. launch.solana.com is something else: the Solana Foundation product hub for shipping applications faster. Tagline: build and ship even faster on Solana. Under that sit the production-oriented open-source tools Foundation wants builders to actually use — not another hello-world tutorial island.

This article is the map. Each product has a deeper piece on devrels.xyz; use this page to choose stack slices and to find GitHub / docs entry points.

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Product catalog

PRODUCTS
  Kora              Fee abstraction / gasless paymaster (SPL fees)
  Private Channels  Enterprise payment channels + mainnet liquidity bridge
  CommerceKit       E-commerce TypeScript toolkit (UI + headless + Pay)
  Attestations      Portable on-chain credentials (SAS)
  Solana Pay        URL/QR payment request protocol
  ConnectorKit      Headless Wallet Standard connector

TOOLS
  Keychain          Unified signing backends (TS + Rust)

OPS
  Partners          Recommended implementation shops
  Contact           [email protected]

How the pieces compose

A realistic consumer checkout stack:

Wallet connect     →  ConnectorKit (@solana/connector)
Checkout UI / cart →  CommerceKit react + headless
Payment protocol   →  Solana Pay (URL/QR) via CommerceKit or raw
Gas abstraction    →  Kora node as fee payer (user pays USDC)
Server signing     →  solana-keychain (KMS / Fireblocks / Privy / …)
Eligibility / KYC  →  Solana Attestation Service
Institutional ICM  →  Private Channels (separate threat model)

You do not need every box. A game might only take Kora + ConnectorKit. A compliance-gated vault might only take SAS + Keychain. Launch is a catalog, not a monolith.

Deep dives on devrels.xyz

• Kora — fee abstraction
• Solana Private Channels
• CommerceKit
• Solana Attestation Service
• Solana Pay — the spec
• ConnectorKit
• solana-keychain

GitHub surface (Foundation monorepos)

• solana-foundation/kora
• solana-foundation/solana-private-channels (Launch also references contra naming historically)
• solana-foundation/commerce-kit
• solana-foundation/solana-attestation-service
• solana-foundation/connectorkit
• solana-foundation/solana-keychain

Solana Pay's original protocol work lives across historical solana-labs / ecosystem packages; CommerceKit embeds a current implementation. Agentic payment CLIs under solana-foundation/pay are adjacent but aimed at x402 / MPP-style machine payments — see our agent payments coverage.

Partners

Launch lists recommended development shops for implementation support (e.g. Blueshift, Exo Technologies, Hoodies, Lazer, Turbine3 — check the live partners page for the current set). That is the Foundation admitting the last mile is still human: FDE-shaped delivery for enterprises adopting Private Channels or banks wiring Kora.

Who builds this

Across Launch repos, recurring Foundation / ecosystem maintainers include (GitHub): amilz, dev-jodee, stevesarmiento, pkxro, gitteri, plus domain leads on Pay / Kit (jordaaash, mcintyre94) and Private Channels contributors (Huzaifa696, sebatustra). Profiles are listed in the devrels.xyz directory for discovery — not an official org chart.

Resources

• launch.solana.com · email [email protected]
• Docs entry often under solana.com/docs/tools (e.g. Kora)