Solana Business Development
What is the business case for investing time and resources into the Solana blockchain?
What is the North Star for the Solana blockchain?
Leadership
Clarity, Consistency, Commitment, Execution.
- How clearly communicated is the vision?
- How consistently is the vision communicated?
- How well is the vision understood by the community?
Interviews:
- Mar 24, Anatoly, How a Bonk Airdrop Helped Solana's Saga Phone sell out
- Oct 24, Mert, How Solana hits $1,000
Countries
Top five countries that are leading adoption of Solana, How? Why? What Benefits?
See Network States
Community
How easy is it to get involved in the Solana community to make a meaningful impact?
Corporate Adoption
Adoption by incumbent industry leaders.
Tokenomics
MEV is a key component of Solana's tokenomics.
- MEV — has both healthy and unhealthy forms
- Market-Based Emission Mechanism
Solutions by Category
What are top projects of each major category that prove the vision and mission?
| Primitive | Protocols |
|---|---|
| Identity | World ID |
| DePIN | Helium, Render Network |
| Gaming | |
| DEXs | Jupiter, Orca, Drift |
| Lending | Solend, Marginfi, Kamino |
| NFTs | Mad Lads, Tensorians |
| Real Estate | Homebase |
| Staking | Marinade Finance, Jito |
Identity
Zero Knowledge Proofs
DePIN
Dominating infrastructural industry adoption?
Key DePIN projects on Solana:
- Helium — telecoms, IoT connectivity
- Baxus — food and beverage authentication
- Hivemapper — decentralized mapping
- elmnts.io — oil and gas
See DePIN Tokens for the full ecosystem.
DeFi
Notable DeFi projects:
- Jupiter — DEX aggregator
- Drift — perpetuals
- Pump.fun — token launchpad
- Jito — MEV and staking
DeSci
Gaming
See Web3 Games Analysis for details.