Organisations

Issuer of USDT, the largest stablecoin, live on Solana

Crypto donation infrastructure for nonprofits — accept crypto, stock, and DAF donations. Powers Solana-native charity flows covered in our crypto donations article.

Tinydancer is an open-source light client implementation for the Solana blockchain.

Frictionless crypto payments via links

Solana DEX aggregator evolving into DART, a matching engine for execution-quality trading.

Tokamai offers real-time monitoring for on-chain programs to detect, analyze, and fix errors quickly.

Enterprise Solana & SVM analytics and decoded on-chain data. SQL analytics, research dashboards, wallet-behaviour analytics, and a data API across 20+ protocols (DEX, lending, perps, LP, staking, yield). Trusted by Solana Foundation, Metaplex, Helium, Drift, and Squads.

Premier security research and audit firm. Notable Solana program audits and authored tooling and disclosures across the ecosystem.

Bringing Web2's subscription simplicity to Web3. Tributary enables any Solana-based business to offer truly automated recurring payments.

Dedicated Solana RPC infrastructure

Tulip Protocol is a yield aggregation platform on Solana offering auto-compounding vaults, lending, and leveraged farming with its governance token, TULIP.

Solana Talent Engine — cohort-based developer training (Builders Cohort), enterprise upskilling, and vetted developer placement. 2,000+ developers trained since 2022.

The next evolution of SQLite — libSQL, an open-contribution SQLite fork with edge replicas and embedded sync. Pairs with Solana Rust services, as covered in our Turso/libSQL article.

Sports data and odds feed provider putting verifiable odds on-chain via Solana — covered in our sports-data article and the World Cup hackathon sponsor track.

Crypto toolchains and infrastructure by the team behind Surfpool, the Solana mainnet-fork test validator (now under solana-foundation on GitHub).

Synthetic dollar collateralized by GPU and AI compute infrastructure.

Incognito Mode for your Money. Privacy infrastructure for Solana — mainnet live, with TypeScript SDK and consumer wallet apps.

Unified blockchain API for 300+ chains.

Solana wallet that grew from a bash script into an ESP32 hardware signer. Colosseum Cypherpunk Grand Champions.

Upexi helps institutional investors gain exposure to Solana through a publicly traded treasury company that accumulates and stakes SOL tokens.

DAO building incentive infrastructure and developer tooling for the Solana validator and program ecosystem.

Vertex is a modular indexing and query layer that lets builders stream and transform Solana on-chain data in real time.

?

Virtuals Protocol

AI Agents

Society of AI agents — EconomyOS, ACP, agent launchpad, GAME framework.

Global payments network running stablecoin settlement on Solana since 2023 (USDC with Worldpay and Nuvei). Ships the Visa Stablecoin Platform, Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), Intelligent Commerce agent toolkit, and the Trusted Agent Protocol for agentic commerce. Developer APIs at developer.visa.com.

Payments, storefront, checkout, and wallet platform for online businesses.

?

World

Identity

World (Worldcoin) — proof-of-human network. World ID available on Solana via Wormhole integrations for humanness verification in apps.

Solana prediction market.

Xandeum extends Solana with a smart contract-native, decentralized storage layer, enabling dApps to store and access large datasets directly on-chain.

Decentralized perpetuals and options exchange on Solana, now settling via Bullet for sub-millisecond latency.

Zeus Network connects Bitcoin and Solana through a permissionless cross-chain protocol that enables BTC liquidity to flow into Solana's DeFi ecosystem.

Open-source Stripe Connect alternative that pays marketplace sellers globally in USDC on Solana. ~$0.002 per payout, instant settlement, Stripe-compatible API and webhooks. Self-hosted. Won Solana Frontier Hackathon Public Good Award.

Cross-chain interoperability and bridging protocol

AI and Web3 fellowship program for young women builders shipping on Solana.

Agent-facing integration registry — publish and discover integrations agents can call, the registry pattern our Solana gap analysis examined.

Decentralized GPU compute network on Solana

Lending and borrowing protocol on Solana

0% fee launchpad and DEX on Solana.

AI-native Solana builder CLI from SendAI + Superteam — guides you from idea to build to launch to raise, with curated repos, skills, and MCPs.

Solana-native DEX with smart liquidity routing, arbitrage, and margin liquidity features.

tidalDAO offers a community for Solana contributors, founders, developers, designers, and creators in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County.