Tagged: solana foundation

May 24, 2025 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

R3 and Solana Foundation announce a collaboration to bring regulated financial institutions and their real-world assets onto Solana. It will deliver enterprise-grade, “permissioned consensus service offered to the public on a Layer 1 network.” This brings the institutional TradFi and DeFi worlds “into convergence, marrying… Read More

April 27, 2025 @ 8:00 pm By Michael Wong  |  

MagicBlock, a startup building fully on-chain real-time applications on the Solana blockchain, said it has raised $7.5 million in a Seed funding round led by Lightspeed Faction. The round was also backed by Maven11, Delphi Digital, Robot Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Equilibrium, Pivot Global, and angel… Read More

January 29, 2024 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Matty Taylor (former Head of Growth at Solana Foundation), Clay Robbins (former Principal at Slow Ventures) and Nate Levine (former software engineer at Stripe) announced the launch of Colosseum, a new organization founded to discover, accelerate and invest in builders who are “looking to develop… Read More

January 27, 2024 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Masa Network, builder of the decentralized data marketplace, announced $5.4M in its seed fundraising round led by Anagram, co-founded by Solana Foundation President Lily Liu and former Polychain President Joe Eagan. Additional investors reportedly “include Avalanche Blizzard Fund, Digital Currency Group, GoldenTree, OP Crypto, Unshackled… Read More

September 9, 2023 @ 3:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Austin Federa, head of strategy at the Solana Foundation, recently noted that firms such as Visa (NYSE: V)  expanding their stablecoin capabilities via the Solana network enhances the perception of the crypto space, which has witnessed numerous scandals and lawsuits during the last few months…. Read More

July 27, 2023 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Credix, with support from Clave, launched a “first-of-its-kind,” fully insured receivables pool. Inaugural investors include the Solana Foundation and Keyrock. The receivables pool offers an investment opportunity “to accredited investors seeking up to a double-digit yield while insuring credit risk.” More specifically, the pool, “which… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Orca, a Solana-based liquidity platform, has announced the launch of the Orca Climate Fund. The fund is “reflective of its mission to combat climate change and promote sustainable practices in crypto.” The Orca Climate Fund “evolved from Orca’s Impact Fund which was born in August… Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 11:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Solana Foundation recently published the Validator Health Report (on August 10, 2022). Solana is a public, open-source blockchain that “anyone in the world can build on.” Their mandate at the Solana Foundation is “to support the decentralization, security, resilience, and adoption of the Solana… Read More