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Solana Foundation

Non-profit foundation seated in Zug that funds development and security work on the Solana network rather than operating it, and whose stake delegation and protocol decisions bear on the settlement assurances tokenised funds on Solana inherit.

Kind Protocol developer
Jurisdiction Switzerland
Founded 2019
Stories filed 2

The profile

Non-profit foundation entered in the Swiss commercial register on 19 August 2019, originally in Geneva and seated in Zug since September 2021, which funds development, decentralisation and security work on the Solana network rather than operating it. Its delegation programme stakes SOL to validators that hold acceptable testnet performance in at least five of the last ten epochs, matching stake raised from other sources at a ratio of 0.5 and covering vote costs on a schedule that tapers from 100% to zero over a validator's first twelve months, which lowers the capital barrier to becoming a block producer. Because Solana carries a large share of tokenised fund and stablecoin distribution (Franklin Templeton's Benji, Apollo's ACRED, Backed's xStocks and OnRe's ONyc among them), the Foundation's stake allocation and its handling of protocol proposals such as Alpenglow bear on the settlement assurances those instruments inherit.

Products and services

Delegation Program
Foundation stake matched at 0.5 of a validator's externally sourced stake, plus tapering coverage of vote costs, conditional on testnet performance and KYC verification.
Grants Program
Funding for ecosystem development with a stated focus on censorship resistance, validator diversity and stake pool participation.

Coverage

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