Organisations

Global payments infrastructure — APIs and SDKs for payments, payouts, FX, issuing, and embedded finance across 150+ countries. Mobile SDKs for Android, iOS, React Native, and Flutter. CLI and open-source wallet service (Auticuro).

Web3 developer platform with Solana RPC and APIs

Web3 domain naming service on Solana

Stablecoin-native business account for global payments, payroll, and treasury — by Squads.

Cloud infrastructure powering Solana validators and RPC nodes

Solana smart contract framework

Core Solana validator client developer (Agave)

MPC-based encrypted execution layer for Solana. Confidential DeFi, payments, AI, and games via Multi-party Execution Environments (MXEs) and the ARX node network.

Decentralized music streaming platform connecting artists, labels, and fans, running on Solana.

BAM (Block Assembly Marketplace) is a transaction scheduling system for Solana that separates ordering from validation using secure hardware environments.

Crypto exchange and wallet built on Solana

Social trading platform on Solana

Global fiat-to-crypto on-ramp and off-ramp infrastructure — card, bank transfer, and local payment methods integrated into wallets, exchanges, and dapps. Solana supported.

Largest crypto exchange by volume

Solana token analytics and trading terminal

Non-custodial Solana liquid staking protocol issuing bSOL, with DeFi composability and ecosystem-driven validator selection.

Fintech company behind Square, Cash App, Spiral, and Bitkey. Its internal App Kit — shipping apps anyone can build — is the case study in our Solana deploy-gap article.

Free online learning platform teaching developers how to build on-chain programs on Solana.

Team behind SNS (Solana Name Service), DEX, and trading tools

Community memecoin and DeFi ecosystem on Solana

Telegram trading bot for Solana tokens

Bonsol enables developers to run complex computations off-chain and verify results on Solana using zero-knowledge proofs.

Stablecoin issuance and management platform — mint, burn, and orchestrate fully-reserved stablecoins via API, with banking and compliance handled. Solana is a supported chain.

Privacy browser with built-in Solana wallet

Solana infrastructure team building low-level systems for colocated validator/RPC services. Authors of Qlaster, a shared-memory account/transaction streaming system.

Stablecoin orchestration platform — virtual accounts, USD/EUR/MXN on/off-ramps, and cross-border transfers via stablecoin rails. Acquired by Stripe in 2024. Solana supported.

Solana trading-layer network extension spun out of the Zeta Markets team, delivering sub-millisecond execution for perps and order-book trading.

Major centralized cryptocurrency exchange with deep Solana spot, perpetual, and futures markets. Supports SOL staking and SPL deposits.

Cambrian builds a modular restaking layer for Solana to enhance network security and enable additional revenue streams.

Exotic structured products on Solana — yield-bearing derivative strategies that retail and institutions can opt into.

Managed blockchain infrastructure and Solana RPC nodes

Issuer of USDC stablecoin

NFT lending and instant-loan marketplace on Solana. Offer-based lending against NFT collateral.

Identity and proof-of-personhood infrastructure on Solana; an issuer on the Solana Attestation Service.

Connectivity cloud and edge platform. Its pay-per-crawl monetization gateway supports x402, letting agents pay for content and APIs — covered in our x402 gateway article.

Crypto market data aggregator

Major crypto exchange and Web3 infrastructure provider

RWA Pokémon-card marketplace on Solana with a developer surface: marketplace API, VRF-backed gacha, and on-chain programs — covered in our builders' guide.

Online hackathon platform where crypto builders compete on Solana to launch startups and secure funding.

Payments orchestrator: T+0 merchant settlement financed by stablecoin liquidity pools on Solana and Polygon while card acquirers settle T+3. Colosseum-backed (2nd, Cypherpunk Hackathon); regulated entity Kiwimoney Inc is a FinCEN-registered MSB; $700M+ processed.

Wallet, payments, and minting infrastructure across 40+ chains — embedded smart wallets, fiat checkout, NFT APIs, verifiable credentials, and policy-gated agent wallets.

DePIN building an alternative internet service provider on Solana — community-owned mesh network and last-mile connectivity.

Multi-chain DEX analytics and chart platform

Decentralized order flow protocol on Solana

DePIN for vehicle data — drivers connect their cars, earn tokens for sharing telemetry, and an open ecosystem builds on top.

Solana platform for free digital collectibles where artists drop NFTs to subscribed fans.

DSCVR is a Web3 social network platform offering tokenized communities, content monetization, and an open API for developers to create embeddable applications within posts.

DeFi Development Corp. helps users compound Solana exposure by operating a public digital asset treasury that accumulates SOL through markets, validators, and onchain tools.

Solana payments wallet built around stablecoin spending — UI optimized for sending USDC and tracking on-chain payments.

Open-source TVL aggregator across DeFi. The canonical reference for Solana protocol TVL, dapp comparisons, and chain-level metrics.

Web3 messaging and notifications protocol

Dedicated fiber/bandwidth 'N1' network for high-performance blockchains — edge filtering and multicast for faster validator block propagation.

Perpetual futures and spot DEX on Solana

SQL-on-blockchain analytics — query Solana on-chain data in SQL, build dashboards, share queries publicly.

Wallet infrastructure for crypto and fintech (a Fireblocks company) — embedded wallets, auth, and onboarding flows compared in our embedded-wallet showdown.

Eclipse is a platform that executes smart contracts using the Solana Virtual Machine. It offers scalability for powerful applications and supports various use cases in the crypto space.

Solana-based crypto fund making DeFi investing simple — strategies and automated allocations since 2022.

Solana-native fiat-backed stablecoin platform — issues Stablebonds and local-currency stables like MXNB (Mexican peso) and Brazilian real, redeemable 1:1.

Multi-chain crypto wallet with Solana support

Solana NFT collection and ecosystem — one of the largest and longest-running PFP communities, with built-in DeFi and utility primitives.

Digital-asset custody and operations platform trusted by 2,400+ institutions. Author of OTL, the Open Transaction Layer for compliant onchain transactions.

High-performance Solana validator client by Jump Crypto

Perpetual futures DEX on Solana with Flash liquidity pools

Free blockchain data platform with Solana coverage. SQL queries, dashboards, and bounty programs for analytical insights.

High-performance Solana (and Fogo) RPC infrastructure, built from scratch for load resilience and low latency. 1st place, Solana Breakout Hackathon.

Forward Industries manages a digital asset treasury focused on acquiring and deploying Solana through staking, lending, and DeFi participation to generate yield and increase SOL holdings per share.

Fragmetric provides liquid restaking on Solana, enabling users to earn additional yields through staking and validation activities.

Solana smart wallet with multi-factor security, stablecoin yield, and a debit card — by Squads Labs.

GLAM creates tools for asset management and tokenization on Solana, helping users deploy and control investment products.

Digital asset management and trading firm, active Solana investor

Solana wallet for browser + mobile with a focus on consumer UX. Ledger support, NFT viewer, and clean swap flows.

Cloud infrastructure provider running Solana validators and RPC nodes

GooseFX Validator lets users stake SOL and earn rewards distributed to delegators.

Decentralized social networking platform on Solana, offering dynamic balance-based membership and community management tools.

Stablecoin API for accounts, payments, cards, and yield — Squads' open-finance platform.

Liquidity primitives for parimutuel and derivatives markets on Solana — futures, perps, options, and event-based trading infrastructure.

AMM for Solana NFTs — pooled liquidity for instant NFT buy/sell at algorithmic prices.

Blockchain security firm — smart contract audits, penetration testing, and advisory across Solana and other ecosystems.

HawkFi provides analytics and automation for market makers to optimize yield on Solana memecoins and altcoins.

Heavy Duty Builders is a community platform focused on connecting and supporting developers within the Solana ecosystem, fostering collaboration and growth.

Decentralized wireless network on Solana

Solana RPC and API infrastructure

Decentralized mapping network on Solana

On-chain gaming infrastructure on Solana — composable identity, missions, characters, and economy primitives for game studios.

Borrowing protocol and USDH stablecoin on Solana

InstantNodes provides high-performance RPC node infrastructure for the Solana blockchain, featuring hybrid architecture with data accuracy and scalability.

Programmable datachain (formerly Bundlr) for storing large volumes of data on-chain with smart-contract access and longevity proofs — widely used to upload Solana NFT metadata.

Service DAO of Web3 power users providing feedback sessions, grant management, hackathon judging, and builders events focused on the Solana ecosystem.

Jet Protocol is a Solana-based borrowing and lending protocol offering DeFi features governed by the JetDAO community.

MEV infrastructure and liquid staking on Solana

Leading Solana DEX aggregator

Lending, liquidity, and leverage on Solana

Long-established centralized exchange. SOL spot, staking, and a growing list of SPL tokens; widely used by institutional Solana flow.

Decentralized RPC aggregation network. Sources data from multiple providers and serves SDKs with built-in failover and cost optimization.

Hardware wallet with Solana support

Proactive market maker on Solana with concentrated liquidity, oracle-driven pricing, and capital-efficient swap routing.

ZK compression protocol on Solana

Solana capital markets — order-book-style lending and structured credit products with fixed-rate, fixed-term loans.

Lending aggregator optimizing yield across Solana protocols

Server and embedded wallets — 57M wallets, $10B+ stablecoin volume, trusted by Polymarket and Helium. Compared in our embedded-wallet showdown.

Multi-chain NFT marketplace

Real-time execution engine for Solana — 1ms block time, sub-50ms latency for games and high-frequency applications.

Decentralized perpetuals, spot, and lending protocol on Solana from Blockworks Foundation.

Institutional lending protocol on Solana

Liquid staking protocol for Solana

Global payments network behind Agent Pay (AP4M) — agentic payment rails we compared head-to-head with x402.

Futarchy-based governance protocol on Solana

NFT and digital asset standard on Solana

Dynamic liquidity protocol and AMM on Solana

Australian Solana-native venture studio and dev shop building web3 apps, mobile, and DeFi protocols with Rust/Anchor and Next.js.

Multichain block explorer and chain data platform. Solana support alongside EVM and other chains, white-labelable for ecosystems.

Fiat on-ramp and payments infrastructure, integrated with Phantom wallet

Murphy offers open-source components and utilities that let developers build Solana dApps quickly and securely.

NVIDIA's developer program: open models (Nemotron), NIM microservices, CUDA, and free courses — the AI-stack resources for agent builders covered in our NVIDIA open models article.

Neon EVM enables Ethereum developers to deploy Solidity smart contracts on Solana without code changes, accessing Solana's speed and low transaction costs.

Decentralized GPU compute network on Solana

Global crypto exchange and Web3 wallet

Product Hunt for onchain apps — a permissionless discovery layer with daily launches, category leaderboards, weekly/monthly winners, and a curated Solana jobs board. Builders list projects; the community votes.

Tokenized US Treasuries and yield-bearing stablecoins. USDY (yieldcoin) is live on Solana, paying T-bill yield to holders.

OnionDAO is an irl event in Chicago that brings Solana developers together for collaboration, networking, and fun irl activities.

One market API for agents — unified access to market data and execution including Solana spot and DeFi, covered in our agent market-API article.

OpenBook is a community-led decentralized exchange protocol on Solana, offering a unified liquidity layer and on-chain price discovery.

OrbitFlare helps users build on Solana by providing fast RPC nodes, real-time gRPC data streams, and secure validator staking.

Concentrated liquidity AMM on Solana

Leading blockchain security auditor

Paladin helps Solana validators protect against sandwiching attacks while earning additional MEV rewards through priority transaction processing.

Real estate price index trading on Solana

Stablecoin issuer and enterprise crypto infrastructure

x402 payment gateway for agents and builders — pay-per-call API access instead of API keys, covered in our x402 + pay.sh article.

x402 payment facilitator on Solana enabling usage-based payments for AI agents, SaaS, and APIs.

Global payments network and issuer of PYUSD — a USD-backed stablecoin that launched on Solana in May 2024 alongside its original Ethereum deployment.

Solana-native stablecoin liquidity layer — USD* multi-stablecoin pool aggregating USDC, USDT, PYUSD and emerging stables behind a single LP token.

Leading Solana wallet with built-in swaps and staking

On-chain order book DEX on Solana by Ellipsis Labs

Solana DePIN cloud — edge S3 object delivery and an AI model router routing requests across distributed nodes.

Prediction markets platform

Embedded wallet infrastructure powering 120M+ accounts — low-level APIs for onchain payments and asset management. A recurring subject of our embedded-wallet comparisons.

Solana program explorer that indexes every program — deploy history, authority changes, IDL and verified-build status — surfacing what general-purpose explorers won't.

Infrastructure for verifiable applications on Solana. Ships an MCP server that serves docs-as-a-tool for building proof-backed apps.

Token launchpad and bonding curve platform on Solana

Oracle network providing real-time market data

Blockchain security firm with deep audit history. Covers Solana Rust programs and Anchor codebases at enterprise scale.

Multi-chain RPC infrastructure with Solana support

Raiku provides coordination infrastructure for Solana, enabling guaranteed transaction execution through high-performance block building and advanced scheduling.

Rakurai boosts Solana blockchain performance by building high-throughput validator nodes with proprietary scheduling optimizations.

Multi-chain NFT marketplace with Solana support

AMM and liquidity provider on Solana

On-chain governance and DAO tooling for Solana

Decentralized GPU rendering on Solana

DePIN for telecom and global Wi-Fi roaming — share connectivity, earn tokens, build the people-owned wireless network.

Trading platform with Solana token support

Robinhood's L2 blockchain built on Arbitrum Orbit for tokenized real-world assets — the settlement layer behind its EU stock tokens. Announced June 2025; a competing approach to Solana-native tokenized stocks (Token-2022 / Securitize).

Provides tools to identify potential rug pulls and frauds in blockchain projects.

SOL Strategies operates institutional-grade Solana validator infrastructure and maintains a digital asset treasury focused on SOL token holdings.

StableSwap-style AMM for stablecoins and pegged assets on Solana. One of the earliest major Solana DeFi protocols.

Samui provides an open-source wallet and development toolbox for Solana blockchain builders, offering integrated testing and debugging capabilities.

LST liquidity infrastructure on Solana

Saros lets users trade tokens, earn yield, and stake on Solana with lower fees and faster transactions.

Decentralized lending protocol on Solana offering lending, borrowing, stablecoin issuance, liquid staking, and meme coin trading tools.

Solana smart contract security auditing

World's largest tokenization platform ($4B+ across BUIDL, VBILL and more; backed by BlackRock and Morgan Stanley; NYSE: SECZ). Issues tokenized stocks on Solana using Token-2022, covered in our tokenized stocks article.

Send helps developers and users interact with Solana through AI-powered tools, community gaming, and blockchain infrastructure.

NFT-collateralized lending on Solana

E-commerce platform with Solana Pay integration

Low-code Solana APIs and infrastructure — high-level wallet, NFT, DAS, and data endpoints that abstract RPC plumbing.

Mobile-first Solana wallet, one of the early major Solana wallets. Browser extension, NFT, and DeFi integrations.

US digital bank issuing the SoFiUSD stablecoin on Solana for payments, citing settlement speed and throughput.

Solana ANZ connects Solana enthusiasts and developers across Australia and New Zealand through community events, workshops, and educational resources.

Solana block explorer and network analytics — validator stats, stake distribution, and transaction inspector.

Solana Compass provides staking services and builds tools for the Solana ecosystem.

Non-profit supporting the Solana ecosystem

Core development team behind Solana blockchain

Mobile-first crypto hardware and dApp store

Solana naming service for .sol domains

Solana Policy Institute educates policymakers on decentralized networks and advocates for legal clarity in blockchain regulation.

Solana Tour connects ecosystem participants at major blockchain events, helping coordinate and amplify Solana's presence at global conferences.

Solana blockchain explorer and indexer

SolanaFloor is a news and education platform for the Solana ecosystem, delivering insights and updates through articles, videos, and podcasts.

Restaking protocol on Solana with endogenous AVS

SolBlaze is a platform that supports the Solana ecosystem with tools such as a DAO treasury, rewards program, faucet, RPC status page, token minter, and payments SDK.

Solder is a backend development framework for Solana dApps providing built-in indexing, auto-generated APIs, and managed deployment infrastructure.

Lending and borrowing protocol on Solana

Non-custodial Solana wallet with hardware wallet support

Solmate helps users stake on Solana by operating bare‑metal validators in the UAE with low‑latency infrastructure.

Solana blockchain explorer

Specialized Solana program security firm — Rust/Anchor audits, formal-style review, and tooling for safer on-chain code.

DePIN for drone-captured high-resolution Earth imagery — pilots fly missions, earn tokens, build a decentralized aerial imagery network.

Crypto payment processing for businesses

Multisig and smart account infrastructure for Solana

Multi-stablecoin payments infrastructure — unified API for accepting, routing, and settling across USDC, USDT, PYUSD and other stables on Solana and beyond.

Developer platform for stablecoin payments infrastructure — on/off-ramps, FX, virtual accounts, and built-in KYC/AML compliance across 10 chains including Solana.

AAA-style space exploration MMO built on Solana with a player-driven economy of fleets, combat, and resource trading.

Portfolio dashboard and analytics for Solana

Token vesting, payroll, and streaming payments

Substreams creator — high-performance streaming and indexing infrastructure for blockchain data, with growing Solana support.

Global payments infrastructure with crypto on-ramp support

Multichain indexer with first-class Solana support. Build custom data APIs from on-chain events with TypeScript or Python.

Global Solana community and talent network

Decentralized oracle network on Solana

Enterprise-grade Solana RPC, indexing, and Chainstream gRPC infrastructure for high-throughput dApps and validators.

Tapestry is an open protocol for social graph data, empowering developers to create decentralized, user-centric applications with on-chain profiles and connections.

Multi-chain blockchain APIs covering wallets, transactions, NFTs, and gas across 100+ chains including Solana.

NFT marketplace and trading platform on Solana

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).

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

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.

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.

Cross-chain messaging and bridging protocol

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

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.