Solana has shared 11 startup ideas, including housing futures, AI, stablecoin payments, and tokenized collectibles, with grants and support available through its Builder Program.
Summary
- Solana’s startup list includes housing futures, AI inference, stablecoins, collectibles, and prediction market tools.
- Builders can apply for grants, marketing support, developer tools, hiring help, and credits.
- Market products account for three requests, followed by two each for AI and consumer applications.
- Grant amounts and a launch date for the planned build challenge remain undisclosed.
Solana’s startup list, introduced on Nov. 9, draws on ideas from ecosystem participants asked what they would build now. Each request describes a potential business, explains how Solana could support it, and gives founders practical starting points.
The page directs teams to the Solana Builder Program for funding applications and other assistance. It says a build challenge is coming next, without specifying its schedule or a funding allocation.
Solana seeks housing markets and better startup research
Colosseum founder Matty Taylor proposes a perpetual trading market tied to a metropolitan housing index. Homeowners could hedge falling local property prices, while people saving for a home could gain exposure before buying one.
His request starts with a single city, reliable licensed data, and a market designed for both groups. Builders are asked to work through liquidity, collateral, and price-feed behavior before expanding.
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, identified as Toly on the page, calls for products that win more perpetual trading activity. His request leaves room for exchanges, trading interfaces, and supporting infrastructure serving specific markets or overlooked users.
Adam Bergeman’s fundraising proposal focuses on helping investors research early-stage startup tokens. Founder history, shipped products, and repository activity would sit alongside trading tools, with AI organizing the evidence.
Existing settlement infrastructure includes the Foundation’s delivery-versus-payment program, announced Oct. 6. The open-source system lets a tokenized asset and its payment settle together in one transaction.
AI requests cover inference, wallets, and security
Jacob Creech’s proposal calls for an open marketplace where developers can access independent AI model providers through one interface.
Beyond comparing prices, users should be able to verify which model handled a request and track provider performance. Payment channels would handle repeated inference charges, while usage could help open-source model developers fund future releases.
Rishin Sharma proposes a wallet-based financial advisor that understands a user’s holdings, goals, and previous decisions. It would monitor relevant market changes, explain portfolio movements, compare options, and help execute actions with explicit user approval.
The wallet request asks builders to compare options against users’ risk preferences and explain changes using their actual portfolio positions.
The inference marketplace would let providers join without a central listing process, according to Creech’s request. Provider identity, reputation, and a separate verification system would support its payment functions.
Security receives a separate request from Robert Chen, who calls for defenses covering an entire business. His suggested products include continuous transaction monitoring, onchain firewalls with reviewable intervention rules, and tools to trace stolen funds.
Stablecoin builders are asked to solve practical payment problems
Nemil Dalal’s stablecoin request covers new token designs, business adoption tools, neobanks, agent payments, and privacy. Builders are encouraged to choose a specific customer and address problems involving liquidity, operational security, compliance, or difficult interfaces.
Solana payments are already available through mainstream consumer products. As crypto.news previously reported, Samsung Wallet’s Solana USDC service began operating Nov. 2, allowing eligible US Galaxy users to buy, hold, send, and receive the stablecoin.
Access requires users to be at least 18, complete identity verification, and use compatible devices running Android 13 or later. New York residents are excluded.
Western Union and Rain launched a USDPT Visa card in August across 37 markets. The product lets customers receive, hold, and spend USDPT, which Anchorage Digital Bank issues on Solana.
Collectibles and consumer apps complete the startup list
Vibhu Norby’s collectibles request covers art, cars, coins, antiques, and watches. Builders would need authenticated custody, detailed asset records, transferable ownership tokens, and dependable physical redemption.
Norby’s suggested starting point is one collectible category, with authentication and vaulting established first. The request includes marketplaces and pricing tools around the assets, alongside the ownership records.
Pedro Miranda proposes an engaging consumer finance app combining everyday spending, savings, and traditional asset investing.
For startup distribution, Farhaj Mayan suggests attention tokens whose trading revenue enters a wallet restricted to marketing spending. Vetted creators could bid for campaigns, with payments and results visible. The proposal specifies that the token would carry no company ownership.
Kyle Samani’s prediction market request focuses on sports fans following several games and open positions. His proposed game-day interface would display positions alongside live action, organize exposure and outcomes, and recommend relevant markets based on the games and positions a fan already follows.
