Curated Highlights: An Overview of the 75 Projects from Solana Breakpoint 2024 Keynotes
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Curated Highlights: An Overview of the 75 Projects from Solana Breakpoint 2024 Keynotes
Covering multiple sectors including DeFi, stablecoins, and PayFi.
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
1. Sanctum (FP Lee)
Sanctum Creator Coin: A new form of currency enabling anyone to build, grow, and monetize their communities, with staking yields going directly to creators and allowing exit without loss.
Cloud Card: The world's first Solana debit card, enabling spending with stablecoins and SOL in over 100 countries, supported by partners including VISA and Jupyter.
2. Sky (Rune Christensen)
Launch of upgraded stablecoin USDS on Solana.
Launch of upgraded governance token SKY on Solana.
Introduction of a tokenized savings rate product on Solana.
Launch of a major liquidity incentive program offering SKY tokens on Solana.
3. Kamino (Marius C.)
Official launch of KaminoLend V2, featuring market and vault layers to accelerate Solana adoption.
The market layer in KaminoLand V2 enables creation of markets for diverse risk profiles, including stablecoins, real-world assets, and meme tokens (internet culture-based tokens).
The vault layer in KaminoLand V2 simplifies liquidity provisioning for users and partners creating vaults.
KaminoLand V2 introduces a new user experience to simplify leveraged trading, long/short positions, and access to liquidity.
Spot Leverage is a new product in KaminoLand V2 that simplifies long positions on Solana via the new market and vault layers.
4. Marinade Finance (Michael Repetny)
Marinade v2 introduces Marinade Native, a non-custodial solution allowing users to delegate stake while retaining control over their SOL.
Marinade v2 launches the Protected Staking and Reward (PSR) system, requiring validators to post SOL collateral to protect staking rewards.
Marinade v2 unveils a staking auction marketplace where delegators can earn higher rewards by auctioning their delegated SOL to Solana validators.
Marinade announces strategic partnerships with Zodiac and Copper, enabling clients to use Marinade v2 on their custodial platforms.
5. Pyth Network (Mike Cahill)
Pyth Network launches Pyth Price Feeds v3 with oracle integrity staking, delivering price feeds protected by data accuracy guarantees.
Oracle integrity staking allows participants to stake to publishers, ensuring data quality and earning up to 10% yield.
6. Flash Trade (Anas Khader)
Flash Trade is launching a new token designed to eliminate linear vesting schedules and align incentives for token holders through governance and yield generation.
Flash Trade is launching Margin Engine v2, promising to be the most efficient margin engine with the lowest fees and novel funding mechanisms.
Flash Trade is introducing limit orders applicable to perpetual markets and spot tokens.
7. Squads Labs (Stepan Simkin)
Squads Protocol v5 is under development, featuring hooks, synchronous transaction execution, new permissions, and performance improvements, scheduled for formal audit and mainnet release on Solana later this year.
In addition, Fuse Pay is introduced as a virtual global Visa prepaid card, allowing users to spend directly from Fuse wallets using stablecoins, secured via self-custody smart accounts, initially launched in the U.S.
8. FluxBot (Scott Hague)
Scott Hague announces the launch of Fluxbeam Infinity, a new product enhancing trading with features like a unified data terminal, integrated Fluxbot for advanced trading capabilities, and an automated algorithmic trading platform.
Additionally, the keynote highlighted Fluxbeam’s achievements over the past year, including RugCheck’s success in combating Solana scams and the launch of the Fluxbot Telegram trading bot.
9. Zeta Markets (Tristan Frizza)
Launch of ZEX, a decentralized exchange offering improved performance and user experience, including faster confirmation times and better wallet UX.
Introduction of Bullet, Solana’s first real-time L2, designed to enhance Solana for ultra-low latency use cases.
10. Polaris (Sunny Aggarwal)
Polaris is a newly announced token gateway aggregating liquidity across venues and chains, providing users a single interface to trade all tokens across all blockchains.
Polaris Vaults is a unique feature extending existing wallets to support networks they don’t natively support, using MPC services to create new keys controlled by existing wallets.
The Autopilot feature in Polaris Vaults automates complex cross-network transactions, efficiently managing transaction steps and gas fees.
11. Ranger (FA2)
Ranger announces the launch of a smart order router that solves liquidity fragmentation by routing large orders across multiple DEXs.
Ranger introduces spot margin trading, allowing users to trade spot assets with up to 10x leverage.
Ranger plans to integrate three additional perpetual DEXs, a P2P OTC platform, and entry/exit channels into its smart router.
12. Wormhole (Robinson Burkey, Dan Reecer)
Launching two Intent protocols: one for native-to-native swaps, and another allowing developers to build on top of it.
Portal upgrade launched, improving speed, cost, and UI/UX.
Wormhole Institutional is being launched to enhance multi-chain tokenized asset transfers.
Upgrades to Wormhole Connect and SDK are being rolled out to improve integration and functionality.
13. Obligate - Margarita Finance (Nadine Gisdon, Daniel Killenberger)
Obligate launches Margarita Finance, a platform allowing users to select their risk-return preferences and directly mix their own yield boosters on Solana.
14. Eclipse (Vijay Chetty)
Eclipse is currently running on devnet, with plans to migrate to public mainnet in October.
Eclipse has launched ETH Unified Restaking Token (URT), a liquid restaking token for DeFi.
Eclipse is developing a restaking token for Solana LRT.
Eclipse is collaborating with Orca, Solend (now Save), and Mango to develop DeFi applications on its platform.
Eclipse is building a unique block explorer experience.
15. SphereNet
A decentralized platform leveraging the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) to connect fintech companies, banks, and institutions, enhancing interoperability for open finance and consumer applications.
DePIN & AI
1. Filecoin (Juan Benet)
Launched Yellowstone and Old Faithful projects to archive Solana data in a decentralized manner.
Introduced new capabilities for indexing and random access to compressed data and zk-proof-compressed data.
New features allow automatic backup of NFT media and websites upon entry into the Solana chain.
2. Dabba (Karam Lakshman)
Dabba deployed thousands of broadband connections and hotspots across India to improve internet connectivity.
Dabba launched a transition program to help local Indian cable operators shift to fiber internet service providers.
Dabba introduced a system allowing global users to purchase hotspot and connection hardware installed by local Indian cable operators, earning Dabba tokens in return.
3. Pipe Network
Pipe Network is a content delivery network using hyper-local nodes to transmit data faster by reducing latency.
Pipe Network is currently in private testnet; users can join by running a Pipe Network node or using Pipe CDN.
4. Project Zero (Alan Chang)
Project Zero is a decentralized energy network aiming to decarbonize and relieve grid congestion.
Fuse Energy App: A licensed retail energy provider app showing real-time energy usage and future token yields.
Fuse Installation Marketplace: A one-click platform to purchase solar panels, batteries, and EV chargers.
5. Gradient Network (Yuan Gao)
Gradient Network launched Sentry Node, a browser extension facilitating global peer-to-peer connections while measuring latency, aiming to enhance connectivity and vitality in decentralized ecosystems.
Gradient Network aims to unlock edge computing potential by creating an open edge computing layer for real-time user experiences, developing a unified compute layer via innovations like DePin to meet demand.
6. Render Network (Trevor Harries Jones)
Solana upgrades completed; the new Burn Mint Equilibrium model is now fully operational.
One-click Render C4D Wizard is live, streamlining artists’ creative workflows.
Redshift is now in public testnet on Render Network.
Significant progress made on Blender Cycles integration, now moved to testnet.
API expanded to allow compute clients to reserve GPU access per instance.
7. CrunchDAO (Jean Hérelle)
CrunchDAO launched Pi, a new product enabling users to generate unique datasets via simple questions, focusing on forex markets and generating unique time-series data.
Users can connect their wallets and interact with Pi via documentation, unlocking new insights and opportunities in a $1.2B annual market.
8. Moonwalk Fitness (Caitlin Cook)
Upcoming launch of Moonwalk iOS app.
Followed by launch of Moonwalk Android app.
Implementation of fiat payment channels for game entry using Apple Pay, PayPal, and credit cards.
9. dVIN Labs (David Garrett)
dVIN Labs launched a Champagne NFT representing a physical bottle of champagne, including a VinCoin airdrop.
VinCoin is now available on Jupiter, opening new opportunities for trading and acquiring this digital currency.
Stablecoins
1. Perena (Anna Yuan)
Perena launched its first product Numeraire, a bounded, scalable multi-asset stable swap with configurable equilibrium design aimed at efficiently managing liquidity on Solana.
Perena plans to support diversified stablecoin issuers and will launch tiered synthetic USD with isolated risk in the future.
2. Solayer (Jason Li)
Solayer announced Solayer USD, a yield-bearing token backed by RWA assets, developed in partnership with Open Eden.
Solayer is launching SUSDC, a self-rebasing stablecoin running on Solana, maintaining a $1 token price while reflecting value accrual through quantity held.
3. Coins.ph (Wei Zhou)
Coins.ph launched PHPC, a stablecoin approved by the central bank and fully cash-backed, in July.
PHPC will launch on the Solana network next quarter.
Coins.ph will introduce liquidity pools for PHPC-USDT and PHPC-USDC on Solana.
4. Securitize & Wormhole (Carlos Domingo, Robinson Burkey)
Securitize announced collaboration with Wormhole and Solana to enhance scalability and cross-chain interoperability for tokenized assets, enabling deployment and transfer of tokenized securities across multiple blockchains.
This partnership will enable a unified multi-chain user experience compliant with institutional standards, allowing Securitize to synchronize token state and liquidity across different blockchains including Solana.
5. ZAR (Brandon T)
ZAR launched as a platform aiming to accelerate stablecoin adoption by leveraging existing mobile payment agent networks, creating a decentralized cash rail for emerging markets.
ZAR launched a stablecoin-only wallet simplifying user complexity, paired with a debit card enabling cash withdrawals and daily spending.
ZARSOLANA provides a public cash-on-ramp solution for Web3 platforms, complete with an SDK allowing any wallet or app to integrate its cash-in functionality.
Wallet / Payments
1. Rally (Chris Maddern, Christine Hall)
Rally is developing a mobile-first, multi-user Web3 wallet designed to boost engagement via seamless social connections, native payments, gas-free transactions, and social referral programs.
2. Reap (Felix Chung, Raphael Dieu)
Reap launched Reap Card, a Visa card enabling payments with stablecoins.
Reap launched Reap Pay, a B2B payment product allowing stablecoin-to-fiat payments.
Reap announced integration with Solana, enabling users to operate and grow Web3 projects using stablecoins.
3. Sling (Mike Hudack)
Launch of Sling Link integrates Solana, stablecoins, and real-time payment networks for instant global remittances.
Introduced self-custody wallet functionality, allowing users to own their keys, with integration into Phantom.
Added USDC and USDP stablecoins in Sling for seamless transactions.
Expanded instant remittance services to over 150 countries, achieving interoperability within the Solana ecosystem.
4. WalletConnect (Jess Houlgrave)
WalletConnect announced the launch of the WalletConnect token, to be used for governance and as a payment system within the WalletConnect economy.
Reown launched AppKit, a full developer toolkit including embedded email wallets, social login, swaps, and cash-in rails, now live on Solana.
Reown launched WalletKit, a toolkit for wallet developers to communicate via the WalletConnect network.
5. CodeWallet (Tanner Philp)
Code Wallet launched a new "tip card" feature allowing creators to link their X account and generate custom tipping cards for community growth and monetization.
6. Bridge (Marco Mahrus)
Bridge announced a new feature enabling users to spend directly from their stablecoin balance using a card accepted anywhere cards are accepted.
Fuse Pay wallet users can now create a card account in-app, offering a self-custodial card product with delegated card balance and controlled spending limits.
The new card product integrates with Apple Pay, supporting both offline and online transactions.
Bridging
Debridge (Alex Smirnov)
Launched zero-TV intent bridging model, enabling instant transfers with guaranteed exchange rates.
Introduced native Bitcoin trading on Solana via deBridge’s cross-chain infrastructure.
Launched gas-free bridging and same-chain intents.
Introduced social finance applications built on deBridge.
DPR token launches on October 17 at 8:00 AM UTC.
RWA / PayFi
1. Huma (Erbil Karaman)
Huma Protocol will launch on Solana, becoming one of the most advanced RWA protocols on the platform.
Huma Finance has processed $1.9B in PayFi transactions, up 10% MoM, with zero credit defaults.
PayFi introduced as a new RWA product aiming to bring sustainable double-digit yields on-chain.
2. Kast Finance (Raagulan Pathy)
Kast Finance launched a Solana validator node offering 0% commission and 100% MEV rebates, yielding 7.6% APY.
Kast launched Payfi, allowing users to withdraw 60% of their SOL holdings interest-free.
Solana Card now open for pre-order, including a free virtual card and a premium black metal card with added benefits.
Kast released the Solana Solid Gold Card—the heaviest solid gold card ever made—now open for pre-order, limited to only 100 units.
DeSci
Pump.science (Paul Kohlhaas)
Launched Pump.science, a marketplace for real-time testing of early longevity cocktails or compounds, with experiments conducted on worms.
Introduced Pump.fund, a trading platform for real-time data streams from tokenized longevity experiments.
Deployed two markets, both now live for trading.
Gaming & NFT
1. Magic Eden (Jack Lu)
Launched a multi-chain identity product with seamless login, allowing users to create Magic Eden accounts via social login and manage multi-chain addresses.
Introduced functionality enabling cross-chain trading of all asset classes across all chains on the Magic Eden marketplace.
Expanded experiences on Magic Eden with more types of quests and reward programs.
Adopted ME token as core utility and reward token, accessible and claimable via the mobile app.
2. DRiP (Vibhu Norby)
Launched DRiP Creator Studio one month ago, enabling creators to mint their content and media as collectibles on the Solana blockchain.
Announced public beta of DRiP Mobile on iOS and Android, featuring real-time demos with gas-free transactions and encrypted auctions.
3. Parallel (Kohji Nagata)
Introduced "Colony," a semi-AI survival simulation game powered by Solana, optimized for Solana phones, where players collaborate with AI and others to help their colony survive disasters while gathering rare resources.
Announced "Colony" is now fully playable on iOS and Android devices, featuring richer worlds, expanded character collections, and new NPCs, with closed alpha launching in early 2025.
4. Tensor (Richard Wu)
Tensor has open-sourced all five protocols, creating an open NFT financial layer including NFT marketplace, NFT AMM, PriceLock, SQL, and whitelists.
Tensor offers a free, comprehensive Web2 API allowing users to clone their entire frontend within a day.
Tensor introduced a new business model with a 50-50 revenue split—50% to the Tensor Foundation treasury, 50% directly to developers.
The Tensor Foundation officially launched its grant program, supporting developers building on its protocols.
5. FrodoBots (Michael Cho)
FrodoBots launched their first game title, *Earth Rovers*, a browser game where players control cyborgs completing real-world navigation tasks.
FrodoBots introduced a treasure hunt gameplay mode allowing players to buy robots for $300 and participate in a Pokemon Go-style experience collecting loot boxes and NFTs.
6. Photo Finish Live (Ian Cummings)
Photo Finish Live is now Apple’s first approved real-money horse racing game.
Photo Finish is Seeker’s launch partner.
7. Bonk for Paws: Only Pawsible on Solana (Veets, Tendies)
Launched Bonk for Paws, a charitable initiative within the BONK ecosystem leveraging blockchain technology to donate to animal charities.
Introduced a platform feature allowing donations in Solana or USDC, with options for anonymous giving or tax receipts.
Launched a matching donation program where donations are matched in BONK, while burning 1% of the donated BONK amount.
Introduced BowBow fashion merchandise sales, with 100% of proceeds matched in BONK and donated to charity partners.
Analytics
CryptoHouse (Derek Chia)
Launched CryptoHouse, a free blockchain analytics service powered by ClickHouse and Goldsky.
Introduced Goldsky Mirror, a core product delivering real-time data services to CryptoHouse via data pipelines.
ReFi
Powerledger
Powerledger is expanding to the Solana mainnet, migrating products from the Powerledger blockchain to Solana.
The POWR token, currently ERC20, will be issued on Solana with a portion locked to enable usage on Solana.
A liquidity pool for the POWR token will be created on Radium to facilitate trading on Solana.
Powerledger is releasing a limited-edition NFT; scanning its QR code grants eligibility for a POWR token airdrop on Solana.
Bitcoin on Solana
1. Zeus (Jim Ironaddicteddog, Dean Little)
Apollo, a platform allowing users to deposit BTC and earn yield on Solana, has officially launched.
ZeusScan, an exploration tool for Bitcoin-Solana interaction, is now live at ZeusScan.io.
Introduced ChatBuffer, an SPPF-assembled parallel data buffer optimized for fast on-chain data exchanges.
Locos, a library implementing the entire Bitcoin protocol in Rust, is planned for open-source release in Q1 2025.
2. Stacks (Muneeb Ali)
Stacks developers are working to bring sBTC to Solana, enabling Bitcoin to be used on Solana’s faster, programmable platform.
Others
1. Jambo (James Zhang, Sam Kang)
Jambo V2 launched at Solana Breakpoint 2024, priced at $99, with doubled specs, shipping support to 128 countries, and featuring Jambo GPT for accessing ChatGPT and real-time crypto information.
Jambo V2 includes direct operation via JamboGPT and comes preloaded with Jambo Wallet for future interactions.
Shipping begins within a month, orders via QR code, expected delivery within two months.
Jambo announced upcoming integration with Mr. Bonk for airdrops to Jambo V2 phones in the coming months.
2. Blinks (Chris Osborn)
In June, Dialect partnered with the Solana Foundation to launch Blinks, a new technology enhancing URLs so users can execute actions directly when sharing links.
On launch day, Blinks enabled users to perform actions directly in their timelines—such as swapping tokens, minting NFTs, participating in governance votes, and subscribing to premium content—with integrations into wallets like Phantom and Backpack.
Blinks expanded functionality to include signed messages, optional transactions, and external links, surpassing Web2 capabilities and creating a hyper-portable, hyper-composable internet experience.
3. Risc Zero (Jacob Everly)
RISC Zero introduced a zkVM enabling developers to write programs in Rust, significantly shortening development time while improving security and maintainability.
RISC Zero launched “continuations,” an innovation enabling infinite proofs, allowing developers to achieve infinite execution.
RISC Zero announced the ability to verify complex trading strategies and integrate Web2 infrastructure like ZK login and OAuth tokens within zkVM.
RISC Zero is building a protocol called the Verifiable Compute Layer, allowing any blockchain to flexibly request computation, similar to how Chainlink provides price data to every chain.
4. BonkBot (Nom)
BonkBot is transitioning to a fully non-custodial platform.
The BonkLive platform has launched for trading new tokens.
Launched a new fashion line named BowBow and Venta to support animal charities.
Launched the first Bonk ETF-like exchange-traded product in partnership with Osprey Funds.
5. MetaDAO
MetaDAO launched a real-time prediction market on Solana to assess proposals' impact on native tokens.
MetaDAO plans to introduce prediction markets for any metric, enabling startups, enterprises, and governments to measure the impact of various decisions.
6. Mantis (Omar Zaki)
Launch of Mantis, a Solana network scaling L2 solution focused on user intent, comprising Mantis Rollup, Mantis Protocol, and Mantis Apps.
Introduction of Mantis Rollup, a Solana-native IBC-supported SPM rollup allowing users to submit intents from Ethereum and Solana and earn native yields.
Launch of Mantis Protocol, facilitating intent handling and settlement across chains, equipped with network solvers offering experiences similar to UniswapX and CoW Swap on Ethereum.
7. Travala (Juan Otero)
Travala announced integration with the Solana network, allowing users to transact with zero fees using assets like USDT, USDC, and SOL, with AVA token deployment on Solana determined by community voting via the Solana Foundation.
Launched an AVA-powered open loyalty program, offering interconnected Web3 experiences within the Solana ecosystem.
8. Legion.cc (Fabrizio Giabardo)
Introducing Legion.cc, a regulatory-compliant platform for pre-TGE fundraising and token issuance events.
Legion.cc features a reputation system to ensure high-quality network participants and enhance investor accountability.
Legion.cc offers two-way opt-in functionality, bringing private market experiences to broader audiences.
Compliant ICOs will soon launch on Solana via Legion.cc.
9. Kinobi (Loris Leiva)
Launch of Kinobi, a developer tool designed to create IDLs for Solana programs and enable interoperability.
Introduced a new feature in Kinobi to generate program clients in multiple languages, including JS clients compatible with the latest Web3.js version.
Announced Kinobi’s capability to generate full applications, including CLI tools, documentation sites, and React components.
Launched a feature allowing users to create custom Kinobi IDLs by merging existing IDLs, generating self-contained clients.
10. Forma (Farhaj Mayan)
Launched the first Solana Economic Zone in Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring a two-story campus space for collaboration and development.
Deployed Solana USDT payments across over 2,000 small businesses in Argentina, expected to go live next week.
11. Arcium (Yannik Schrade)
Arcium launched ARC-OS, the first decentralized cryptographic operating system designed to power Arcium.
Arcium released a custom Rust compiler enabling developers to compile arbitrary Rust programs into a format securely handled by Arcium, adding confidentiality and security to applications.
12. Ottersec (Robert Chen)
Robert Chen discussed a common bug in the Solana Rust compiler causing random stack corruption due to oversized array allocation in safe Rust, primarily due to stack overflow issues. He emphasized the importance of compiler warnings and recommended checking logs to avoid unexpected behavior in smart contracts.
To mitigate this, Chen suggested using newer versions like Anchor v2.0, disabling direct mapping in test environments to catch stack overflows, paying attention to compiler warnings, and reading assembly code to understand low-level behavior.
13. Finternet (Siddharth Shetty)
Introduced "Finternet," a system enabling individuals and enterprises to fully control various asset types via a universal ledger infrastructure.
Launched tokenization functionality allowing institutions like commercial banks and asset managers to issue digital representations of assets to users.
Developed a framework for interoperability between multi-ledger infrastructures to accommodate different asset types.
Incorporated third-party service providers such as custodians and insurers to enhance trust and security in Finternet transactions.
14. Streamflow (Malisha imprfekt)
Streamflow will launch permissionless token staking in October, allowing staking of any token and creation of staking pools rewarding with any token.
Streamflow is launching Aligned Unlocks, a milestone-based token unlock mechanism, launching in October for Solana-based tokens.
Streamflow will launch its token in October as part of Streamflow V2, aiming to decentralize the platform and turn users into stakeholders.
15. Bonsol (Austin Adams)
Bonsol, an off-chain compute framework, is now available on mainnet and devnet, enabling expansion of program functionality on Solana beyond compute unit or transaction size limits.
16. World ID on Solana (Ian Dilick)
World ID is launching integration with the Solana blockchain, migrating from Ethereum mainnet with assistance from Wormhole Labs.
DSCVR has launched its World ID integration, allowing users to log in via World ID.
DRIP has integrated World ID, offering drip rewards to users verified via World ID.
17. Forgd (Shane Molidor)
Forgd launched Token Designer, a comprehensive software toolkit for managing all aspects of token economics, including supply-demand modeling and post-TGE performance simulation.
Forgd offers integration with over 30 major market makers and an automated RFQ process for interacting with them.
Forgd provides exchange listing tools allowing users to track historical performance, access listing fees, and conduct due diligence on centralized exchanges.
Post-launch, Forgd transforms into a command center, offering a dashboard to monitor market maker activity, track global liquidity, and trading volume.
Forgd launched a token unlock monitoring tool allowing users to track inflation, monitor sell pressure, and correlate these with price performance to optimize pricing strategy.
18. Helio (Stijn Paumen)
Helio announced Blinks for Shopify, enabling Shopify brands to sell products directly from virtual plazas.
Helio introduced a new feature in its dashboard allowing merchants to offer discounts to Seeker holders—a group of 200,000 crypto-savvy customers.
Helio expanded its Web3 suite, enabling airdrops at checkout and allowing merchants to accept their own tokens as payment within Shopify.
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