Solana Foundation - Head of Institutional Growth, Europe

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I’ve joined @SolanaFndn as Chief Strategy Officer. What excites me is Solana’s position to bring Internet Capital Markets to life: connecting assets, trading and payments on one global network, open to anyone, around the clock. You can already see it happening: $200M in tokenised equities traded in a single day, with roughly 63% outside US market hours. My focus is helping drive the next phase of growth, bringing more institutions, enterprises, builders and users into that opportunity. Thank you to @calilyliu and the team for the warm welcome. Excited to get going. 💜 coindesk.com/business/2026/0…
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moments from House of Sol
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Just use Jupiter
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The world doesn't change because people accept the rules. It changes because someone breaks them. The token supercycle is rewiring capital markets, and this November the people building it meet in London.
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"What we're starting to see now is the merging of the DeFi world and the TradFi world," - Annabel Spring, CEO AllFunds She is guiding Allfunds through this convergence, leveraging a network of over 3,300 financial institutions and asset managers alongside more than €1.9 trillion in AUA.
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BREAKING: 20 more stocks live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities
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Most used chain in every time frame for years now Depending on how the wins blow, CT will tell you that low fees are good or bad, beautiful or ugly. Wrong question to ask If your goal is to be neutral global financial infrastructure for the internet, can you imagine debating whether $0.50 cent transactions are acceptable. Ask yourself who at scale wants to pay that much to move money when they don’t have to If your goal is to be the best at fintech 3.0 then congratulate yourself on margin capture Right question is - are you building the financial infrastructure for the internet or are you building fintech 3.0 Are you competing for 5.5B internet users or are you aiming to be the next PayPal. Nothing wrong with the latter. It’s just a different game.
Solana handled 5 billion transactions in August, an unfathomable level of activity that exceeded all other networks combined. That's more than 100,000 every minute. And it did this while keeping fees orders of magnitude lower than other chains.
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One of the world's largest banks on where Solana fits: "Solana's particular niche is ultra low cost, ultra fast. That opens up things like micropayments, particularly as we move towards agentic AI." – Geoff Kendrick, Global Head of Digital Assets Research, @StanChart
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Another new Solana ATH!!! RWA distributed asset value just reached $3.84B, up 17.52% in the last 30 days. RWA holders are now at 344,423, up 12.32%, hitting a new ATH 🤯 Tokenize everything on @solana
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Everything the Foundation does rolls up to two objectives: 1/ attract the best talent to Solana, 2/ attract capital to Solana. Capital is necessary to attract talent. Talent is necessary to attract capital. Neither stands alone. "King making" is short sighted and self limiting: it caps how much of either can form. The other extreme, “credible neutrality”, sounds like high-minded fairness. In practice it’s great for code but comes up short applied to humans, whose express role is to exercise judgment, at risk of fallibility. Aspiring to eliminate the need for taste, judgment, and leadership doesn’t remove human judgment. It pushes it into the shadows. The principle we operate on is open meritocracy: actively facilitate competition, let the market decide. No one is bigger than the market - for capital, for talent, or for users. On perps, the ecosystem (and the Foundation) holds many views, argued hard and usually reconciled. Sometimes what surfaces publicly are a subset of voices rather than the settled position. In actuality, the Foundation has always supported diversity across the perps builder ecosystem. The public perps program and frontier traders are two of the more recent efforts. I don’t think our socials presence has fully represented the actual diversity of support or range of perspectives on perps. (This will change). The claim that only one team in Solana can build fully on chain perps is just not true. Many have taken on the challenge in recent months. Perps are very hard to build fully on chain, and fully on chain is more valuable to the future of DeFi (and Solana) than pool trading, off chain execution, or any number of alternative architectures. Dydx first attempted this in 2017. Nearly 10 years on, our industry is still working on it and Solana is very very close. You can be clear-eyed that not all architectures are equal and still be welcoming to everyone who comes to build here. Entrepreneurship is a brutal battle. Most attempts fail, for all kinds of reasons. The presence or absence of RTs aren’t high on that list. Our job is to try to attract the best talent and capital to Solana to compete. The Foundation doesn’t decide who succeeds or fails - the market does.
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Starting today — One of the largest wealth management firms in the world has made the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF $BSOL available to their advisors and clients. Yet another sign Solana will be a key part of the mainstream chapter of crypto. Delighted to see this space maturing.
Some great news coming for Solana tomorrow.
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BREAKING: Morgan Stanley launches a Solana ETP, $MSOL, on NYSE Arca. Their first crypto ETP pulled $381M in months. SOL now sits inside a $14B product suite, staked, with every reward passed to investors.
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job's not done
BREAKING: @Solana is now the leading network by real-world asset holders, with over 300K holders @SolanaFloor also reports that there are over 2,120 different kinds of RWAs available to trade on Solana
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“Kamino currently is the best place onchain”
Replying to @Route2FI
Yep a few places SPYx on Morpho - borrow rate 5.2% APR SPYx on Euler (Cassa needs to add liquidty) SPYon on Euler - borrow rate 3% APR SPYx on Kamino - borrow rate 3.8% APR (but 2.6% in incentives) Kamino currently is the best place onchain given the incentives and good enough liquidity $5m plus of USDC to borrow
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$BAGEY has launched on Solana. The Baillie Gifford (@BGDA_UK) Enhanced Yield Fund is the first publicly available, fully native UK-regulated tokenised fund issued onchain, settled in USDC, built with BNY. Not a wrapper. The blockchain is the register of record.
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i had the pleasure of speaking with @brianlong at breakpoint last year at the backstage of money summit hosted by @ramzyyalii brian doesn’t know this, but that conversation was my top 3 at breakpoint. i was struck by how thoughtful and considered he is. this video is a great chance to get to know him and showcases his deep understanding of ALL THINGS SOLANA we are so lucky to have @triton_one a core piece of solana’s infrastructure
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$50,000 hackathon on Solana - World Cup edition. 3 tracks: prediction markets, trading agents, consumer experiences. Live sports data, verifiable onchain. Powered by @TXODDSOfficial. If you’re building, this is your window 👇
Superteam UK
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A year ago, this number was just $215 million.
📊REPORT: @Solana’s RWA ecosystem has reached a new all-time high of ~$2.68 billion in total value, with holders surpassing 217,000. A year ago, this number was just $215 million.
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Solana's RWA ecosystem just hit a new ATH: $2.8B+ in total value
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