Accelerate 2025: Ship or Die
2025-05-22..2025-05-23
New York, United States
as the organisers put it
Explore Solana Accelerate 2026, featuring flagship Solana community events in Hong Kong and Miami with speakers, sponsors, event details, and ticket information.
who it's for
crypto founders and startup founders, Solana developers, web3 product managers, crypto investors and VCs, growth and user acquisition teams, protocol engineers
topics
token design and launch mechanics; treasury management in stablecoins; market maker strategies and liquidity; centralized and decentralized listing strategy; Solana integration and ecosystem apps; wallet connectivity (WalletConnect, MetaMask); decentralized wireless and mobile plans (Helium); decentralized CDN and edge caching; liquid staking and staking protocols; on-chain attestation and identity services (Solana Attestation Service)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How to Run a Crypto Business | Mike Dudas | 16m |
Over 120 early-stage crypto investments inform concrete rules: hire resilient, curious cofounders who stay in the foxhole; ship fast and iterate — launch a… | ||
| Token-Aligned Companies | Caleb Abraham Clement Fournier, Tendies, Nom | 18m |
A tour of the Bonk ecosystem shows concrete products, numbers and integrations: Moonwalk runs step-stake challenges on Solana with Google Fit/Apple Health… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Forgd | Scott Byron | 08m |
Guidance on launching a token that optimizes for price-driven UX: start by modeling value accrual, supply distribution and demand drivers, aiming for 15–25%… | ||
| User Acquisition | Nigel Eccles, Sheldon Smickley | 13m |
Launch day is June 2009 with a daily goal of two new users a day, scaling to ~100k+ monthly active users and ~$150M revenue by 2015, and several million MAU… | ||
| Driving Real-World Adoption of Solana | Emon Motamedi | 08m |
An incubator runs a three-month New York program that works with 4–6 teams to push real-world Solana use: Alphaledger is originating municipal bonds and… | ||
| Capital Market Fit | Clay Robbins, Breck Stodghill | 14m |
Explains how to choose investors by concrete signals and practices rather than reputations: use hackathons to prove early product, run an accelerator sprint to… | ||
| Crypto's Biggest Innovation Is a New Business Model | Sam Andrew | 07m |
Argues that crypto’s real innovation is a business model that both collapses cost structure (moving from ~10% industrial and ~40% software margins toward 70%… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Pipe Network | David Rhodus | 06m |
A CDN built on blockchain coordination uses hyperlocal caches to shorten light-distance, claims 200,000 local pop nodes and stores about 10 petabytes in RAM… | ||
| Building the Grid From Scratch | Alan Chang | 06m |
Claims a new energy stack that adds home batteries, thermostats, solar and EV chargers to a network that automatically shifts consumption to reduce congestion… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Helium | Abhay Kumar | 06m |
A decentralized wireless network launches Helium Mobile as an app-based phone plan that can be $0/month (or $15/$30 upgrades), requires no contract or credit… | ||
| Lightning Talk: MetaDAO | Proph3t His Holiness | 06m |
Argues that the usual low‑float, high‑FTV token launches create sell pressure and founder exits and proposes a concrete alternative: a high float early launch… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Sanctum | FP Lee | 07m |
Claims that token launches get pumped by tactics like buy followers, fake billion-dollar raises, pre-sales to insiders and low float high FDV schemes are laid… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Meteora | Zhen Hoe Yong | 09m |
Dynamic liquidity protocol Meteora reports 200 billion all-time swap volume, ~900 million TVL, and over 1 billion in fees paid to LPs while shipping DLMM, DAMM… | ||
| Trade Everything | Barrett Williams | 07m |
Ranger positions itself as the first perp aggregator on Solana, combining four major venues and routing orders through integrations like Jupiter, Chamino, Pith… | ||
| From Fintech to DeFi | Mary Gooneratne | 08m |
A new credit primitive called sponsored vaults maps lenders to specific borrowers and collateral on Solana using a multi‑parameter order book and bilateral… | ||
| Lightning Talk: True Markets | Vishal Gupta | 06m |
True Markets launches this week on Solana claiming to enable 247 markets globally, hybrid CFI/DeFi with a non-custodial flow settling to Paxos, and optimized… | ||
| Verifying Dogecoin on Solana | Carter Feldman | 08m |
A zero‑copy Rust Doge LightClient runs on Solana to verify Dogecoin block headers, check PoW difficulty and AuxPoW, and accept Merkle proofs tying deposits to… | ||
| Coinbase & DeFi | Andrew Allen | 08m |
Coinbase launches CBBTC one-to-one Bitcoin on Solana as an SPL token redeemable at zero fee and instant settlement, and links it into DeFi by routing deposits… | ||
| You Don't Need a CEX | Kain Warwick, Mert Mumtaz | 14m |
Argues that retail traders can skip centralized exchanges by using a noncustodial but not censorship-resistant model and shows a working cross‑chain product: a… | ||
| You Can (and Should) Be encrypted | Yannik Schrade | 08m |
Archium builds an Arum encrypted compute layer beside Solana that lets transactions carry encrypted shared state and runs matching and logic without revealing… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Agora | Drake Evans | 10m |
Issuer of AUSD stable coin describes confidential transfers live on Salana that encrypt balances and amounts while keeping sender, recipient and date visible… | ||
| Building User-Centric Products | Simon Amor | 08m |
An international payments app built on Salana that aims to make instant transfers for a fraction of traditional costs, focused entirely on send money from A to… | ||
| WalletConnect on Solana | Pedro Gomes | 06m |
WalletConnect reports 45 million unique active wallets and roughly 300 million cumulative connections, runs a decentralized network of 16 node operators, and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: MetaMask | Christian Montoya | 08m |
Nine months of engineering overhaul add native Salana support to a wallet used by 30 million monthly active users, with code changes, hours of user research… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Daisy | Ray Lee | 08m |
Claims a working creator-powered ad network with 2,000 creators verified via OAuth into Instagram TikTok Snapchat and X, using tools like opacities and ZKTLS… | ||
| Reflections on Solana From an EVM Builder | Amir Bandeali | 09m |
ZeroX routes $150 billion routed through its EVM APIs since launching in 2017 and decides at end of 2024 to build on Solana after multiple false starts and the… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Alex Blania, Ali Yahya | 14m |
US launch of World deploys 12,000 devices by year end with orbs in SF, LA and Austin but not New York, aiming to prove humanity as AI-generated content surges… | ||
| Distributed Intelligence: The Alignment Protocol | Dillon Rolnick | 17m |
A decentralized pretraining network called Psyche is actively training a 40 billion parameter model using global nodes logged on the Solana blockchain and… | ||
| Photo Finish Live | Ryan Duguid | 07m |
Photo Finish Live runs hundreds of races daily and claims $23M in horse sales, $18.5M in breeding fees, $50M in racing fees and $9.3M returned to token… | ||
| Fireside Chat: Open Game Protocol | Justin Waldron, Kuleen Nimkar | 14m |
Open Game Protocol claims the scalable win for web3 games is solving distribution not payments, aiming to integrate with Salana so developers can implement in… | ||
| Solana Attestation Service | Solomon Ponomarev, Rohan JT, Chuck Zhang | 15m |
Solana Attestation Service is a permissionless protocol that ties verified off‑chain KYC and identity attestations to on‑chain wallets; demo shows PolyFlow… | ||
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