Cohort 4 Demo Day is live.
Some of the most ambitious teams building on @Solana are sharing what they've shipped:
3:57 → @CoralOS_ai
12:42 → @fractalsfi
19:06 → @TradeNeutral
26:02 → @solomon_labs
33:36 → @SpoutFi
Cohort 5 apps close next week. Link below.
Full Episode:
From founding Venmo to building on Solana, a deep dive with Iqram Magdon-Ismail
Spotify: https://t.co/WnQAccQwBF
Apple: https://t.co/MBM9cDMLTA
Can studying competitors actually make your product worse?
"I don't even study competitors because I don't want to be polluted by their way of doing things."
Venmo co-founder @iqramband shares a philosophy that continues to shape how he builds today.
Full episode below 👇
🚀 New Podcast Alert: Founders’ Stories Straight from Solana HQ
Ever wonder what it really takes to build the next big thing on Solana?
The Understory is a fresh series of raw, in-depth interviews with founders — their journeys, pivots, wins, and lessons learned — all recorded live from the Solana HQ in NYC as part of the Solana @incubator project.
These aren’t polished PR talks. This is the real behind-the-scenes of building Web3’s next blue chips.
Spotify link in comments 👇
USDv audit complete.
@accretion_xyz has completed its review of the core USDv program, marking a major step toward launch.
Productive dollars are coming to Solana.
What actually moved the needle for Cohort 4 founders inside the Solana Incubator?
What do we look for in the founders building the next wave of real-world adoption on @solana?
@IOV_OWL hosts Cohort 4 on @Genfinity. Full showcase below.
🌎 The World Lives on Solana | Agents. Infrastructure. Quant. Yield. RWA.
Genfinity hosted the @Solana Incubator Cohort 4 showcase. The most competitive class they've ever had:
• Neutral: Institutional quant strategy
• CoralOS: Production scale agentic AI
• Fractals: Tokenized Infrastructure financing
• Spout: Borrow against equities (0% interest)
• Solomon Labs: Infrastructure for productive dollars
"The more we leverage Solana to drive real world change and utility, those are the pieces we want to back." — @EmonMotamedi@CoralOS_ai | @fractalsfi | @TradeNeutral | @solomon_labs | @SpoutFi | @incubator | @IOV_OWL
Full Cohort 4 Showcase:
Full Episode:
From founding Venmo to building on Solana, a deep dive with Iqram Magdon-Ismail
Spotify: https://t.co/5nY0HGMqCZ
Apple: https://t.co/BXkPYVpkBS
New episode of The Understory with @EmonMotamedi
In this episode, @iqramband shares the story of building Venmo, the creative marketing strategies that fueled its growth, and his latest venture @jellyvideochats on Solana.
Full episode 👇
Marinade instant unstake just crossed 500,000 SOL.
That's half a million solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 that skipped the ~2-day native cooldown and became liquid on demand. Around $40M in stake, freed the moment holders needed.
Any Solana validator. Median fee since launch: 0.152%
🌎 The World Lives on Solana | Agents. Infrastructure. Quant. Yield. RWA.
Genfinity hosted the @Solana Incubator Cohort 4 showcase. The most competitive class they've ever had:
• Neutral: Institutional quant strategy
• CoralOS: Production scale agentic AI
• Fractals: Tokenized Infrastructure financing
• Spout: Borrow against equities (0% interest)
• Solomon Labs: Infrastructure for productive dollars
"The more we leverage Solana to drive real world change and utility, those are the pieces we want to back." — @EmonMotamedi@CoralOS_ai | @fractalsfi | @TradeNeutral | @solomon_labs | @SpoutFi | @incubator | @IOV_OWL
Full Cohort 4 Showcase: