# Solana Foundation

> Solana Foundation is the Zug-based nonprofit that stewards the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana ecosystem. It funds public goods, delegates stake to qualifying validators, convenes builders, maintains ecosystem portals and open-source tools, and is increasingly assembling practical infrastructure for payments, institutions, and AI agents. Its job is not to own the network, but to make the network useful and resilient enough that no single organization needs to.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Zug, Switzerland
- **Founders:** Anatoly Yakovenko (Founding council member and president until December 2021), Wolfgang Albrecht (Founding council member), James Prestwich (Founding council member), Mable Jiang (Founding council member), Patrick von Felten (Founding council member)
- **Team size:** Approximately 64 employees in supplied company data; LinkedIn lists a 51-200 employee range and 59 visible employees.
- **Products:** Grants and Funding Program, Solana Foundation Delegation Program, Ecosystem hackathons and events, Solana Permissioned Environments, Solana Attestation Service
- **Notable:** Established in Zug in 2020 after Solana Labs transferred protocol intellectual property and 167 million SOL to the Foundation., Its funding portal reports 500+ projects supported, more than $100 million in funding, and activity across six continents., Its delegation dashboard reported 362 validators receiving Foundation stake across 24 countries and 59 locations at the time reviewed.

## Products & services

- **Grants and Funding Program** — Milestone-based grants, convertible grants, and requests for proposals supporting open-source public goods and commercially promising ecosystem infrastructure.
- **Solana Foundation Delegation Program** — Delegates Foundation-held SOL stake to qualifying validators to improve network performance, geographic distribution, resilience, and validator sustainability.
- **Ecosystem hackathons and events** — Builder competitions, Breakpoint, Accelerate, community programs, and educational initiatives that recruit and connect developers, founders, investors, and institutions.
- **Solana Permissioned Environments** — Customizable private instances of the Solana Virtual Machine intended for enterprise internal infrastructure.
- **Solana Attestation Service** — An open, permissionless protocol for reusable verifiable credentials such as compliance checks, geography, accreditation, or membership.
- **payments.org** — A stablecoin-payments hub with documentation, integration guides, transaction simulators, and production metrics.
- **Solana Developer Platform** — An AI-ready enterprise API platform aggregating infrastructure providers for token issuance, payment orchestration, and onchain trading workflows.
- **Pay.sh** — An open-source gateway, built with Google Cloud, through which software agents can discover and pay per request for APIs using stablecoins on Solana.
- **Ecosystem security programs** — Funding and coordination for audits, threat modeling, incident response, developer standards, and collaborative defense initiatives.

## Achievements

- Established in Zug in 2020 after Solana Labs transferred protocol intellectual property and 167 million SOL to the Foundation.
- Its funding portal reports 500+ projects supported, more than $100 million in funding, and activity across six continents.
- Its delegation dashboard reported 362 validators receiving Foundation stake across 24 countries and 59 locations at the time reviewed.
- Helped turn recurring global hackathons into a pipeline for independent companies and open-source teams, later working with Colosseum on competitions and acceleration.
- Published recurring network health reports tracking validator distribution, client diversity, developer activity, reliability, and network economics.
- Co-launched Solana Attestation Service on mainnet in 2025.
- Launched an enterprise-focused Solana Developer Platform with more than 20 infrastructure providers in 2026.
- Launched open-source Pay.sh with Google Cloud in 2026, including Google Cloud APIs and more than 50 community API facilitators at launch.
- Expanded ecosystem security coordination in 2026 through STRIDE, incident response, and alliance participation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published weekly engineering updates covering Agave and Firedancer releases, RPC 2.0, SDKs, fee design, and Alpenglow readiness.
- **2026-06** — MoneyGram joined Solana Developer Platform as an infrastructure partner and validator.
- **2026-05** — Launched Pay.sh with Google Cloud for stablecoin-funded, pay-per-call API access by AI agents.
- **2026-04** — Introduced new ecosystem security initiatives including STRIDE and the Solana Incident Response Network.
- **2026-03** — Launched Solana Developer Platform for institutional token issuance, payment flows, and trading infrastructure.
- **2026-02** — Unveiled payments.org as a dedicated resource hub for stablecoin payments on Solana.
- **2025-05** — Solana Attestation Service went live on mainnet for reusable verifiable credentials.

## Links

- Website: https://solana.org
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solana-foundation/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/SolanaFndn
- GitHub: https://github.com/solana-foundation
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SolanaFndn
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Solanalabs/

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Last updated: 2026-08-14