Solana Dapps and Developer Tools

Founded by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah in 2017, OpenSea is a decentralized marketplace for the purchase and sale of NFTs. Users can buy, collect, trade and gift NFTs on the marketplace. Developers can run an in-app economy with OpenSea.js, run their own marketplace and access the OpenSea API for data on sales, listings, bids and transfers. The platform has one of the lowest commission fees for purchasing and selling NFTs. To date, OpenSea has raised over $427M with their most recent Series C raise capturing $300M from investors including Coatue and Paradigm.

NFT Dapps

Pantera was founded by former Tiger Management CFO Dan Morehead in 2013 when bitcoin was trading at $65. Pantera is notably the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States in focused exclusively on blockchain technology. Pantera has multiple funds including a venture capital fund and an early stage token fund. Pantera's notable venture investments include the decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Arbitrum, and Coinbase, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the United States. Some of Pantera's early stage token investments include 0x, Cosmos, Polkadot, PsyOptions, Filecoin, and Livepeer.

Venture Capital Firms

Phantom was built by Chris Kalani, Francesco Agosti, and Brandon Millman after brainstorming a Solana-native wallet. Phantom is a non-custodial wallet that is compatible with assets on the Solana blockchain. With Phantom, users can trade, receive, send, and store assets conveniently. It is also compatible with hardware wallets, especially Ledger, for tighter security. Phantom is available on mobile phones and also exists as a browser extension.  In May 2023, Phantom launched wallet support for Polygon and Ethereum.

Web3 Wallets

Launched in September 2021, Magic Eden is an NFT marketplace that runs on the Solana blockchain. Users can buy, mint and sell NFTs on the platform. Developers can use Magic Eden's API to request various endpoints and integrate data into their own programmes. Magic Eden has low transaction costs and does not charge creators for listing NFTs.

NFT Dapps

Kraken is a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange and bank, founded in 2011. Users can invest in cryptocurrency and leverage Kraken's tools and features to grow their portfolio. Developers can use the REST API to connect to publicly endpoints. Kraken was one of the first bitcoin exchanges to be listed on Bloomberg Terminal and is reportedly valued at $10.8 billion USD, as of mid-summer 2022.

Trading Tools

Collab Land is a standardized bot for community management and engagement. The bot can be added to either Telegram or Discord communities. The most unique feature of the Collab Land is that it tracks and only gives membership access to those who hold your token, automatically kicking out anyone who sells them. 

NFT Tools

Stripe's crypto onramp gives crypto businesses like DEXs, NFT Marketplaces, wallets, dApp, and more an easy and fast way for their consumers to purchase crypto. Top web3 companies like MyEtherWallet,, Magic Eden, Audius, and Argent trust Stripe's crypto onramp to give users a seamless experience that is optimized for conversion and instant settlement of crypto. With just 10 lines of code, web3 developers can integrate an onramp that abstracts away all of the complexity of piecing together multiple third-party KYC, payments, fraud, and compliance services. If you’re interested in integrating our onramp, please sign up for the waitlist, and we’ll reach out to you soon. 

Web3 Wallet Tools

Alchemy provides the SDK and APIs to build multichain Web3 DApps, and the skills to use them through a community/university-like initiative. Developers can use the free tools to create smart contracts for multiple use cases and multiple blockchain targets. Alchemy has inspired +$100 Billion worth of transaction value on-chain, with north of 10M end users, and royalties upwards of $1,5B.

Infrastructure Tools

Arweave is a protocol where everyone can host their data without the fear of censorship or degradability. The permaweb sits on the Arweave protocol, and it hosts all of the products in the network. Arweave has profit-sharing communities, Ardrive, and Verto.

Infrastructure Tools

ZettaBlock provides enterprise-grade, full-stack Web3 infrastructure for indexing and analytics needs, joining real-time on-chain and off-chain data. App developers can build low-latency, reliable GraphQL APIs via SQL and Python in minutes. Users no longer worry about decoding blockchain data, configuring their data warehouses, data pipelines, databases, and API endpoints. 

Infrastructure Tools

Coinbase wallet is an EVM compatible software wallet, launched in 2018 by the creators of the Coinbase platform. Users can purchase ERC-20 tokens, NFTs and take part in airdrops. Developers can use Coinbase wallet to connect directly to testnet faucets in a wallet extension and integrate into dapps and protocols for lending and payment. 

Web3 Wallets

Lit can be used to read and write data between blockchains and off-chain platforms, facilitating encryption, access control, and automation for the open web via programmatic signing. On a fundamental level, Lit is an attempt to decentralize public key cryptography. This includes building apps with private data using identity-based encryption, facilitating more seamless onboarding experiences for non-crypto natives with MPC wallets, and more. To learn more, visit [our developer documentation](https://developer.litprotocol.com/).

Identity Tools

With the goal of bringing blockchain to a Billion people, the parent company Alchemy introduced an investment firm called Alchemy ventures. Alchemy ventures is a VC funding empowering developers and communities that are building gaming, metaverse, Defi, or web3 applications using Blockchain Technology.

Venture Capital Firms

Create unlimited DeFi portfolios by bundling wallets across over 40 chains and over 500 protocols! Connect your wallet and get an in-depth view of your DeFi holdings powered by data from Nansen. Gain insights from Nansen's 240 million labeled wallets and comprehensive data analytics. 

Trading Tools

Coinbase Global, Inc., branded Coinbase, is an American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform. Users can buy, sell, earn, borrow cryptocurrency, use the Coinbase Wallet to store cryptocurrency as well as collect NFTs and trade derivatives. Developers can access the Coinbase cloud for developer tools and API.

Trading Tools

Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. It was founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.  They invest in seed to late-stage technology companies across bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies aspiring to American dynamism. a16z manages $35 billion in assets across multiple funds.

Venture Capital Firms

With a Nametag profile, you can connect multiple wallets across various chains, curate a gallery, and then port that profile into popular apps like Twitter, Youtube, and Discord, as well as metaverses, games, and experiences. Users can interact with our ecosystem through our Chrome extension. 

Identity Tools

Create Web3 DApp is an npx package that allows developers to create anything from a simple, barebones dApp to a feature-rich decentralized platform, in ~2 minutes. The create-web3-dapp package is a NextJs-based framework, compatible with the most used blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Solana, that helps web3 developers build a decentralized production-ready application at lightning speed, using pre-made React components, webhooks, and APIs. For more information, read the create-web3-docs on docs.alchemy.com.

DeFi Tools

Delphi Digital is an independent research boutique providing institutional-grade analysis on the digital asset market. Users can use Delphi’s research to make informed investment decisions about their favorite web3 projects.  Industry-leading research insights provide a deeper understanding of critical concepts within the crypto ecosystem.  Delphi Digital is actually an umbrella company for several entities including a research firm, venture firm, and asset creation firm. 

DeFi Tools

Launched in August 2021, Metaplex is one of the largest protocols on Solana. It enables creators and developers to mint, sell, and manage non-fungible tokens (NFTs). With Metaplex Studio, users can launch customized NFT collections without any coding involved.  For developers, Metaplex offers a range of tools and software development kits, including Candy Machine, for minting and distribution, Auction House, for selling, and Token Metadata, for adding NFTs to projects. 

NFT Tools

Dfns is the most secure wallet-as-a-service infra founded in 2020 in Paris. Dfns is Techstars-backed, SOC 2-certified, and has raised over $20M since its creation. Dfns is an API-first KMS designed to provide app developers with secure, plug-and-play access to blockchains based on an decentralized, MPC-driven key management network with built-in recovery mechanisms, operated by error-and-attack-resilient tier 3+/4 data centers. Dfns is designed with focus on developer experience to maximize programmability, minimize high-touch implementations, and provide granular sets of permissions, controls and policies via secure API credentials (encrypted WebAuthn 2FA). We support 40+ blockchains and 1,000+ tokens.

Web3 Wallets

Mirror World is a full-stack Web3 App development platform that means everything from Web2/Web3 login methods to NFT marketplace, wallet integration, and NFT launch are all covered in the SDK with minimal code required. All you need to do is plug in once, integration time is under 30 minutes, and the APIs are all yours. Aside from these primary features, we do have other auxiliary functions such as a UI dashboard, open storefront, data monitoring tools, and so on, to minimize your development effort.

NFT Tools

Coinbase ventures support exceptional entrepreneurs, working to advance the crypto/Web3 ecosystem and Coinbase's mission of increasing global economic freedom. They work with founding teams from the beginning and invest broadly across all sectors of the crypto economy. They've invested in hundreds of teams that are working on everything from layer 1 protocols to Web3 infrastructure, centralized on-ramps, decentralized finance, NFTs, metaverse technologies, developer tooling, and more.

Venture Capital Firms

Created by Binance and its U.S. partner BAM Trading Services, Binance.US is a cryptocurrency exchange for residents of the United States. Users on the platform can buy, sell, trade, convert and stake over 120 popular cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Cardano (ADA).

Trading Tools

HelloMoon.io is a human readable index of Solana. Users can explore all NFT collections, DeFi tokens, and protocols on the Solana blockchain using the site, as well as connect their wallet to access their portfolio. Developers can use the API to track on-chain activity. HelloMoon.io labels the wallets that are engaging in each ecosystem.

NFT Tools

USD Coin(USDC) issuer Circle launched its yield program in June 2021 to enable institutional investors to earn interest by lending out USDC. Users can deposit a minimum of $100,000 USDC, which is lent out to Circle Bermuda. The assets are then allocated to investment partners who lend it out in the capital crypto market. The users receive interest in USDC — the interest rates are updated weekly and the loan terms range from one to 12 months.

DeFi Dapps

Yawww is an NFT marketplace that is secured by a smart contract written in Solana. Users can collect, buy, trade or collateralize NFTs for loans in a peer-to-peer format. Developers can use the platform to lend money to peers. On average, sellers potentially earn 8% more on an NFTs sold on Yawww than other marketplaces.

NFT Dapps

Founded in 2021, Hyperspace is a Solana NFT marketplace and aggregator. Users can view, collect and sell NFTs across Solana marketplaces within the UI. Developers can use theHyperspace API to integrate endpoints into their projects. Hyperspace charges low trading fees and users can see the rarity of their NFT on the platform. 

NFT Dapps

Zerion is a web3 smart, social wallet, and investing tool that allows anyone with a mobile phone to manage their DeFi and NFT portfolios, with support for every chain and thousands of protocols. Users are offered a single point of entry for managing their digital assets, including NFTs, thanks to a relentless focus on user-centered design and a technology stack that aggregates across every major wallet, network, and decentralized exchange. Because Zerion is non-custodial, users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach reduces the risk of centralization and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since its inception.

Web3 Wallets

Solflare is a secure and powerful crypto wallet that provides users with all of the benefits of Solana.  With Solflare users can Buy, send, stake, swap, and trade tokens directly from their phone; use hardware wallets like Ledger, connect to Solana dApps, receive blockchain notifications, and experience a whole new internet.

Web3 Wallets

Sharing content across the blockchain has typically always been done across public networks. With Submarine, creators can make any content unlockable through NFT ownership, geo-location, and more. Within just a few steps, you determine who gets access to your content, when they can view it, & for how long. 

NFT Tools

Helius aims to rid the complexity of building on the Solana chain by providing developers APIs for transactions and NFTs, webhooks, and turbocharged RPCs. Developers can build a service that fires notifications or triggers other events when something of effect is registered on the Solana blockchain - such as when a known collector buys new NFTs.

Infrastructure Tools

Messari is the leading provider of crypto market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto/Web3 with confidence. Users can utilize Messari products to get the most accurate and up-to-date information about the Web3 industry.  Messari Pro offers advanced research and analytics tools for professional investors and Web3 enthusiasts.  Messari has the financial backing of some of the most prominent individuals and venture firms in the industry. 

DeFi Tools

Launched by Alex Fleseriu, Exchange Art is an NFT marketplace on the Solana blockchain. Users can search via art categories, participate in auctions, verify tokens and ownership changes on-chain. Developers can list collections and use the Royalities Protection Standard offered by the platform. Exchange Art also allows artists to sell their artworks to a global audience, for a fraction of the traditional gallery cost: just 2.5% per sale, compared to the typical 50-70%.

NFT Dapps

Wormhole has a modular architecture that works with other chains as its layers.  Wormhole is one of the bridges that connect Solana assets to be useful and interoperable on other chains, which it often terms to be xChain.  Wormhole makes it easier for developers to build both tokens and DApps on a cross-chain architecture for maximal performance. 

DeFi Tools

The Solana Explorer is a Solana blockchain explorer. Users can use it to view transactions, blocks, programs, tokens and accounts across Solana clusters. Developers can use the devnet cluster to enable devloper settings, use the testnet and test dapps or connect to a custom RPC URL. 

Web3 Developer Tools

Tres Finance gives its users financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit, and reporting for Web3 financials so they can control and manage their transactions and their finance real estate better. Monitoring and managing crypto financial transactions become easier when data is compiled and formatted to fit business benchmarks and KPIs. Tres helps the Web3 world do this more effectively with its special suite of financial tools.   

Web3 Wallet Tools

Zellic is a blockchain security and auditing company that aims to provide the best blockchain audits for projects across multiple networks, including Solana, Ethereum, Cosmos, etc. Projects and companies, including Solana Foundation, SushiSwap, Aptos, LayerZero, and many more, rely on Zellic to secure over $3 billion. 

Web3 Security Tools

Launched in 2021, Solana-based Marinade Finance is a liquid staking platform that enables users to earn yield on SOL tokens. Users can stake SOL to secure the Solana network and keep it decentralized, and receive marinated SOL or mSOL in return. Users’ mSOL holdings increase as the underlying SOL collects staking rewards. Marinade users can also use mSOL across the Solana ecosystem and stake them for additional yield or swap them for SOL at any time.  The Marinade ecosystem is governed by a DAO using the MNDE token, which can be locked to mint Chef NFTs that are used to vote. As of November 2022, there are over 450 validators on Marinade's network.

DeFi Dapps

Founded in 2014, Ledger is the global platform for digital  assets and web3. Over 20% of the world’s crypto assets are  secured through Ledger Nanos. Headquartered in Paris and  Vierzon, with offices in London, New-York, Singapore and  Portland, Ledger has a team of more than 700 professionals  developing a variety of products and services to enable  individuals and companies to securely buy, store, swap and  manage crypto assets - including the Ledger hardware wallets  line with more than 5 million units already sold in more than    180 countries. Ledger combines a hardware wallet: Nano S Plus or Nano X and the  Ledger Live app to offer consumers the easiest way to start their  crypto journey while maintaining full control over their  digital assets. With its ease of use, Ledger allows a user to  begin investing in digital assets and ultimately, achieve  financial freedom in a safe and stress-free environment, with  additional education provided by its Academy. In addition to  consumer products, Ledger has also developed Ledger Enterprise,  a digital asset custody and security solution for institutional  investors and financial players.

Web3 Wallets

Halborn provides blockchain security solutions, including security advisory, advanced penetration testing, smart contract audits, and DevOps and automation services. Halborn was founded in 2019 by renowned ethical hacker Steven Walbroehl and growth hacker Rob Behnke. The company has now grown to over 100 of the world's best offensive security engineers. 

Web3 Security Tools

With a team of 60+ certified engineers, Hacken provides solutions encompassing all aspects of blockchain security, such as Smart Contract Audit, Blockchain Protocol Audit, dApp Audit, Penetration Testing, and CCSS Audit. Since 2017, Hacken has been raising the bar for blockchain security by contributing to security standards and championing transparency in 1,200+ Web3 projects.

Web3 Security Tools

BitGo is an institutional digital asset custody, trading, and financial management service provider. Traders can secure private wallets and custody credentials with BitGo. Developers can bring the functionality of BitGo into their use case applications by calling APIs and connecting webhooks from the open-source projects

Web3 Wallet Tools

The Raindrops Protocol is a series of five a la carte contracts that govern on-chain or proof-on-chain data specifically for games, allowing any player or item to be interchangeable with any game client that can process them. The Solana ecosystem has a fragmented and very customized way of storing in-game assets on-chain, with many different formats. But the Metaplex Protocol's methods of storing ordinary NFT data are standardized. The aim of Raindrops is to do the same thing for game assets.

Web3 Gaming Tools

Cashmere is a multi-signature wallet on Solana. The wallet's main use to to allow organizations to manage their funds easily. The wallet supports both SOL and all SPL tokens and can integrate with all Solana wallets, hardware or software. Internally, Cashmere’s multi-sig uses a concept called Program Derived Addresses, which is a program that may be given the authority over an account and later transfer that authority to another.

Web3 Wallets

Launched in 2019, MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. It enables users to purchase and sell cryptocurrencies using traditional payment platforms (i.e. Visa, Mastercard, etc.). In its line of products, MoonPay also provides a business payment on-ramp and an NFT payment processor. 

Web3 Wallet Tools

Paper enables companies to add Web3 functionality without the confusion of creating a wallet, buying crypto, and signing transactions. It enables your users to buy NFTs with a credit card, create a wallet with an email address, and say goodbye to annoying Metamask popups. 

Web3 Wallet Tools

Skiff is an end-to-end encrypted, privacy-first, wallet-native workspace with Mail, Calendar, Pages, and Drive apps. Sign up, pay, and collaborate privately or with your crypto wallet, and store data with end-to-end encryption or decentralized on IPFS.

Infrastructure Tools

Made for budding investors, researchers and contributors, Pentacle delivers real-time data on yield opportunities, audits, risk management, integrations, governance, treasuries, team members, jobs, grants and bounties. Using Pentacle, you can zoom in on a project, zoom out to compare – or take a voyage of discovery by following relations mapped through projects, people, skill levels and topics. You can also make a list of favorites, add private notes and trace your browsing history. Thus, Pentacle provides verified information, safe links and helpful learning tools in your crypto quest.

Infrastructure Tools

SolanaFM is one of the friendliest blockchain explorer, API, and analytics platforms that provide indexing solutions for Solana, a high-performance and permissionless blockchain. SolanaFM provides equitable access to Solana’s full historical data through efficient and dynamic APIs and showcases on-chain data and analysis. A majority of SolanaFM’s functionality is built using GraphQL. SolanaFM gives developers the autonomy to explore, build & manipulate data as desired.

Web3 Developer Tools

Kamino Finance automates and optimizes concentrated liquidity management for DEX market makers on Solana. Kamino automatically sets, rebalances, and auto-compounds liquidity positions reducing the barrier to entry for market making on a CLMM. In addition, Kamino makes CLMM positions fungible through kTokens. All users have to do is choose a Kamino vault they feel is right for their portfolio profile and market conditions, deposit funds, and let Kamino take care of the difficult stuff. 

DeFi Dapps

Joinlist helps creators get started in seconds with an elegant allowlist page. The Joinlist app makes allowlisting frictionless. Allowing any user to get started for free. Joinlist has worked with over 1,400 projects that include Hashflow, Layer3 and Galxe, powering the next generation of allowlists who care about style and speed.

NFT Tools

Tensor makes trading NFTs as fun as trading shit coins. We provide advanced trading features like real-time data (fastest on Solana), full historical candlestick prices, and AMM pools for NFTs. Sweep, bid, list and delist NFTs in bulk. If you're a power user and want access to the fastest platform for NFT trading on Solana, check out Tensor.

NFT Dapps

Unmarshal provides granular blockchain data through APIs helping developers build dapps faster. Their products include DeFi APIs, NFT/Metaverse APIs, notification services, as well as insights and analytics APIs. 

Infrastructure Tools

Arbitrary Execution is an engineering-focused organization that specializes in securing decentralized technology. Their team of security researchers leverages their offensive security expertise, tactics, techniques, and hacker mindset to secure the Web3 ecosystem.  Arbitrary Execution has performed over 45 audits of Web3 protocols and projects, created tools that continuously monitor the blockchain for anomalous activity, and launched the Web3 SDLC, a framework for integrating security throughout the development life cycle.

Web3 Security Tools

Since 2017, Verichains has been a pioneer and one of the leading blockchain security firms in APAC, with extensive expertise in security, cryptography, and core blockchain technology. More than 200 clients trust them with $50 billion assets under protection, including several high-profile clients such as BNB Chain, Klaytn, Wemix, Line Corp, Axie Infinity, Ronin Network, and Kyber Network. Verichains provides blockchain security services such as blockchain protocol and smart contract security audit, mobile application protection, key management solution, on-chain risk monitoring, and red team/penetration testing services. Their world-class security team has found several vulnerabilities in layer-1 protocol, bridge, and smart contracts in the last five years. They helped investigate and fix security issues in the two largest global crypto hacks: BNB Bridge (Binance) and Ronin Bridge (Sky Mavis).

Web3 Security Tools

Syndica is building the cloud of Web3, providing enterprise-grade infrastructure, which includes specialized indexing APIs, RPC infrastructure, ChainStream API (streaming on-chain events), and more. Syndica makes it easy to get on-chain data into your application environment through their battle-tested RPC infrastructure as well as specialized APIs such as the ChainStream API. This allows you to get real-time notifications of on-chain events enabling your application to quickly and reliably react to them.

Infrastructure Tools

SharkTeam is the world’s leading Web3 security service provider. It offers smart contract audit, chain analytics, and emergency response services. SharkTeam’s vision is to comprehensively protect the security of the Web3 world. The team is composed of experienced security professionals and senior researchers from all over the world. They are proficient in the underlying theory of blockchain and smart contracts. 

Web3 Security Tools

The first thing any beginner Web3 developer needs is a high-quality connection to the blockchain. Ankr offers high-performance RPC API connections to 30+ blockchains with advanced tools and services that builders can use to take their projects to the next level. With high-performance node infrastructure distributed across the globe, Ankr powers decentralized applications for the fastest, most reliable experience possible.

Infrastructure Tools

Cyberscope is a leading blockchain security firm specializing in smart contract audits, KYC services, and AML analytics. With over two years of experience, Cyberscope has established itself as a trusted partner with all major launchpads and reputable entities such as CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko, Polygon Village, and Techstars.

Web3 Security Tools

Launched in 2021, Star Atlas is a futuristic space-themed strategy game built on Solana. Players collect, create and trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that represent in-game items within the Star Atlas metaverse.  Similar to other Web3 games, Star Atlas players have complete control over their virtual environment. They choose to build entire cities or form DAOs to govern certain regions. Players receive ATLAS, the in-game currency, as rewards.

Decentralized Games

Snowflake is multisig platform wallet on Solana. Their wallet allows teams to schedule payroll, recurring payments and future payments, and see fiat values of your assets and portfolio balance in real-time.  The platform can also require multiple team members to confirm every transaction in order to execute it, which helps prevent unauthorized access to company crypto.

Web3 Wallets

Solend is a DeFi protocol that allows for lending and borrowing on the Solana Chain allowing users to earn interest on deposits. With Solend, Borrowers can leverage long and short crypto assets. The protocol boasts cheap transaction fees and high throughput which make it a preferred DeFi platform and allows users to earn interest and borrow up to 16 assets on more than 40 pools. Solend also has a governance token (SLND), which allows users to buy into the protocol. 

DeFi Dapps

Founded in 2021, Soldex is a trustless decentralized trading protocol on Solana, headquartered in Halifax, Canada. Soldex uses Artificial Intelligence coupled with Machine Learning to solve some peculiar real-time cross-exchange problems. It has a lot customizable of bots to enhance the trading experience of its users. These AIs will help the users to make more well-informed trading decisions. Users can farm, stake, swap, and even create liquidity pools on Soldex.

DeFi Dapps

Jet Protocol leverages the speed of Solana to allow for efficient trading, tight collateral ratios, and dynamic pricing for its users. Their governance token (JET) ensures decentralized consensus and security.  Features of the protocol include cross-chain modules for equalization of interest rates, leveraged borrowing automated position management, secondary markets for interest rate speculation, and liquidity provisioning for senior and junior debt positions.

DeFi Dapps

Sonar Watch is a dashboard for Solana. Users can access an overview of a wallet or public address on the Solana Blockchain, and view the history as well as crucial metics of a user's portfolio within a page. Developers can request for an API key to integrate data end-points into their programs. 

Trading Tools

Founded by three full-stack engineers with strong big data backgrounds, Chaincrunch is the go-to platform for Solana on-chain analytics  Users can utilize Chaincrunch’s APIs, dashboards, realtime metrics, and notebooks to analyze projects on the Solona blockchain.  The team is constantly adding new features and iterating on their product to make it the best experience possible for users. 

DeFi Tools

Atrix is one of the fast-rising Automated Market Makers on the Solana blockchain that boasts over $30 million in liquidity and almost 200 vaults. Users can access swapping, staking, and contribution to liquidity pools as well as interfacing the Serum decentralized exchange via Atrix. Developers can integrate Atrix into projects for swapping on and adding liquidity to Serum, and interacting with farms. It supports and is in partnership with several Solana protocols including Mango, Bonfida, and Slope.

DeFi Dapps

Step is a Portfolio Manager dashboard with the largest coverage of the Solana ecosystem and a growing Data Analytics suite across DeFi and NFTs. Users can visualise their portfolio and view aggregations of all LPs, tokens, farms, and positions that a user may have associated with their wallet and see it all displayed on a seamless dashboard. Developers can also use the site to view their portfolio. 

Trading Tools

01 is an Alameda-backed and Serum-based decentralized exchange protocol on Solana . 01 gives users a comprehensive trading experience since it has a lot of features that are particular to centralized exchanges such as cross-margin and futures trading, unlike most other decentralized exchanges. For the developers, 01 has a robust software development kit in various languages, including Rust, Typescript, and and Python for faster development.

DeFi Dapps

Tulip protocol runs on the Solana blockchain and offers 3 major yield products called Vault, Lending, and Leveraged farming. Tulip's Vault strategies consistently compound with time, thanks to Solana's low transaction costs and high speed. Through its highly secure services, Tulip protocol offers numerous benefits to 'farmers' such as higher yield APY, and smaller gas fees.

DeFi Dapps

Oxygen is a DeFi prime brokerage service built on Solana and powered by Serum's on-chain infrastructure. Users can manage capital by using the same collateral multiple times, access cross-collateralization and market-based pricing. Developers can use the API for defi programmes. The protocol is scalable and democratizes borrowing, lending, and trading with leverage.

Trading Tools

HXRO is a simplified first-class option trading platform. Users can trade bitcoin, ethereum, solana option contracts, make use of HXRO's three-tiered options armed traders that is sophisted enough to secure a higher chance of making protifable trades, as well as use the in-built de-risking trading bots to receive guidance on making more-informed trading decisions. As a multi-chain platform, its users can trade a wide array of crypto from Solana to ETH, and even Bitcoin.

DeFi Dapps

Lifinity is a special market maker that does not rely on arbitragers for the prices of assets but instead relies on Pyth - a Web3 decentralized oracle. Users are shielded from avoidable impermanent loss and receive fees that are set manually. Lifinity maintains its market asset equilibrium by favouring trades and price actions that balance its liquidity pool.

DeFi Dapps

Muse is a web3 platform for publishing comic books, graphic novels, and animations.  Users can get access to independently created content and communicate directly with creators and share with their friends.  Content creators can publish and monetize their comics, novels, and animations without the need for a middle man.  While still in beta, the product hopes to democratize the comic book publishing world by giving power back to creators and users.  

Infrastructure Tools

GameFi platform, Arcade, offers the opportunity for meaningful rewards from play-to-earn games in the metaverse without direct gameplay or ownership of in-game NFTs.  Arcade has developed what they call mission pools to distribute rewards to members by leveraging their ownership of games, in-game NFTs, and strategic connections to guilds, gamers, contributors, and game developers.

Web3 Social Dapps

Aldrin is a decentralized exchange on the Solana network that aims to simplify the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem for all levels of users. It launched an automated market maker (AMM) DEX to facilitate instant token swaps with the help of liquidity pools in October 2021. Previously known as Cryptocurrencies.ai, Aldrin offers crypto spot and futures trading on its DEX, along with the opportunity for earning passive income through its liquidity pools. 

DeFi Dapps

The Parrot Protocol is a Solana non-custodial lending defi and liquidity network. Users can access their stablecoin, PAI, and the non-custodial lending market to access value in LP tokens, and the lending network collateralized by LP tokens. Developers can view statistics available on the site.

DeFi Dapps

Solrise Finance is a decentralized asset management and investment platform built on Solana. The protocol enables anyone to invest in crypto assets grouped together in funds called Solrise funds, similar to hedge funds.  The advantage of these funds is that they are managed by third-parties whose track records are verifiable on the blockchain and users can pick the ones that suit their risk appetite. 

DeFi Dapps

PsyOptions is a Solana blockchain-based options protocol. Because options are represented as SPL Tokens, they can be traded on any DEX that accepts them. PsyOptions V1 is 100% collateralized, asset settled, and supports covered calls and secured puts. PsyOptions gives DeFi a TradFi feel with its decentralized, permissionless, and community-owned financial services platform. Their vision is to become the de facto on-chain financial services platform for DeFi users worldwide.

DeFi Dapps

Friktion is a one-stop shop for full-stack portfolio management designed to outperform market cycles. The platform offers Strategies for risk-adjusted returns for DAOs, individuals, and traditional institutions. Friktion's native portfolio strategies are volts. Volts are chosen by users based on their risk tolerance, deposit assets, and generate passive returns.  Friktion allows users to create a portfolio that generates returns in bull, bear, and crab markets. 

DeFi Dapps

Crema Finance is an established concentrated liquidity protocol on the Solana blockchain with over $2 million TVL and increasing. Apart from its concentrated liquidity product, Crema Finance shares incentives with the liquidity providers to encourage more influx of locked funds. For wider accessibliity, Crema Finance has supports other popular blockchains to facilitate cross-chain swapping. Developers can also tap intot the Crema Finance SDK to build their DApps where they can use Crema Finance as an oracle or infrastructures.

DeFi Dapps

Launched on February 21, 2021, Raydium is a Solana-based automated market maker exchange and liquidity provider that powers the Solana DeFi ecosystem. Raydium shares liquidity with Serum, another Solana DEX, and has access to its central order book mechanism that mirrors traditional exchanges. This allows for super-fast, low-fee trading of digital assets on Solana while providing the reliability of an order book system. 

DeFi Dapps

Backed by the likes of Solana Ventures and Alameda Research, Saros Finance is a trail-blazing DeFi protocol built on the Solana blockchain. Users gain access to the protocol's 3 major products: SarosFarm, SarosStake, and SarosSwap. Each of the products as mentioned earlier were for automated market making, staking, and swapping respectively. It also has a tool called SarosSnapshot that traders can use to track competition.

DeFi Dapps

At its core, Cope is a play-to-earn decentralized application on the Solana blockchain with a vibrant community of gamers. The community members can go higher on the leaderboard by giving accurate trading calls for the community. Cope has a staking provision across the Solana network. The users have two staking options; either they stake their COPE tokens in Solana-native liquidity pool protocols such as Raydium, or they stake in a Solana-native wallet such as Sollet or Phantom - which is the most popular.

DeFi Dapps

Quarry Protocol is an open protocol for initiating Solana liquidity mining programs. Quarry was created with the goal of assisting other Solana projects in launching on-chain liquidity mining programs.  While manually sending tokens to addresses is currently standard practice, it would be much better for the growth of the ecosystem if liquidity mining programs were composable and enforceable on-chain.

DeFi Dapps

Larix is Solana's first Metaverse-based protocol that features a dynamic interest rate model and more capital-efficient risk management pools.  This means this protocol can securely use a wide range of collateral types, including crypto tokens, stablecoins, synthetic assets, NFTs, and other assets.  Furthermore, the reward system, based on a carefully constructed token economy, enables continuous incentive allocation to increase demand. 

DeFi Dapps

Katana is the premier yield generation protocol. The Katana protocol is a set of smart contracts on Solana that provides the best suite of packaged yield products, allowing users to passively access the ecosystem's best risk-adjusted yields. Katana is ideal for retail users, DAOs, institutions, protocols, and others looking to generate yield on their crypto assets. Anyone can choose to build their own products, protocols, or experiences on top of the core Katana protocol as a base primitive.

DeFi Dapps

Ratio was established in 2021 with initial seed capital raised from investors including Alameda Research, CMS, and Solana Labs. For users, their Risk Rating Algorithms help mitigate defi risks and offer yields on deposited LP even while leveraging that deposited collateral.   

DeFi Dapps

Cega is developing the next generation of defi derivatives. It is the first protocol that is solely focused on exotic derivatives, a type of options product that combines basic options (e.g. call/put) with advanced options characteristics, Cega creates packaged offerings for investors that generate superior yield, provides downside protection, and expresses infinite views of the financial market. 

DeFi Dapps

Cropper Finance was founded in 2021 by Arthur C, Quentin Cropper, Fabrice Fabrice, and Victor Cropper in fulfillment of their plan to create a Solana-native Automated Market Maker. Leveraging the order book of Serum, Cropper Finance makes it possible for the users or traders to farm various tokens and get yields. On the side of the projects, Cropper Finance gives a free-hand avenue to inject liquidity into their projects, decide the terms of their yields, and find a ready yield-farming market.

DeFi Dapps

Rust was developed in 2010 as a versatile language centered on the goal of empowering developers. Developers using Rust can perform safe systems-level operations including memory management and parallelism. As a result, Rust encourages writing extremely fast programs without having to compromise security. In addition to being the main language for writing fast Solana smart contracts, Rust is used for programming with Polkadot, Elrond, NEAR, and Zcash.

Web3 Developer Tools

Created by Staking Facilities and VGNG, Solanabeach is a comprehensive block explorer to view core Solana statistics. Users can explore the network's statistics, validators, and token metrics. Developers can use the testnet or devnet views as well as delegate information to the Solana Beach Validator.

Web3 Developer Tools

Francium is one of Solana's largest Defi platforms for yield generation.  Francium goes beyond the traditional lending and borrowing of DeFi and offers users profit-generating yield strategies tailored to their specific needs. In other words, it assists users in locating crypto assets with the highest yields so they can properly channel funds. It also connects developers and users in a decentralized manner. As a result, developers are free to create products that users may find useful.

DeFi Dapps

Twetch is a social media app for all platforms that runs on Solana and uses blockchain to ensure data privacy and decentralization, while also enabling a native NFT marketplace.  It is completely on-chain; every Twetch account is a crypto wallet. Every interaction is a transaction that is archived and stored on the blockchain.

Web3 Social Dapps

The Binary Ninja eBPF implements a Capstone-powered disassembler and lifter for the Solana bytecode format.  Developers can use this open source protocol to disassemble raw byte code into human readable code in solidity-like format.  The GitHub page has easy to follow instructions for implementing the protocol. 

Web3 Developer Tools

Superteam collects and offers bounties to contributors to work on developing upcoming projects on Solana.  In exchange for producing high-quality content, software, and more, SuperteamDAO offers rewards to its contributors.  If you're a dev who is looking to join a squad of high-functioning Solana developers, you should check out SuperteamDAO.

DAOs

Underdog is a  gasless API to create dynamic/soulbound NFTs, manage NFTs, and connect off-chain workflows, on-chain. Users can manage, integrate, and create NFTs with their favorite web2 tools like Zapier, Discord, Telegram, Notion, etc. Use Underdog powered NFTs to dynamically capture user or member activity and engagement in one-place. We are trusted by SuperteamDAO, Parcl, and Dispatch Forums.

DAO Tools

Solang is an open source solidity compiler for Solana and substrate developers. Users and developers can utilize this open source project to compile their code and interact with the underlying blockchains.  Developed by a team of 25 contributors, Solang is the go-to compiler for solana and substrate. 

Web3 Developer Tools