Helius, a leading Solana infrastructure provider, has officially joined forces with the Solana Developer Platform (SDP), providing enterprise-grade tooling to bridge traditional financial institutions onto Solana's high-speed, programmable network. This move is poised to accelerate the adoption of Solana by major fintech players, enabling seamless integration of real-world financial products.

The Vision: Instant Global Finance on Solana

The core vision is a world where financial transactions, from payments to trades, settle in milliseconds with near-instant finality and minimal fees. Solana already processes tens of millions of transactions daily, eliminating blockspace, speed, and cost as barriers. The missing piece has been an enterprise-grade platform to help financial institutions navigate the transition from legacy systems without requiring them to become blockchain experts. The Solana Developer Platform (SDP) is that bridge.

What is Solana Developer Platform (SDP)?

Solana Developer Platform (SDP) is an AI-ready, API-first platform that aggregates best-in-class infrastructure from across the Solana ecosystem into a single, unified interface. It offers a compliant and legitimate path for vanguard fintechs like Mastercard, Worldpay, and Western Union to build sophisticated financial products on Solana, including:

• Stablecoin issuance
• Remittances
• RWA tokenization

How Enterprise Fintechs Leverage Helius on SDP

For enterprises choosing Solana, Helius provides comprehensive solutions to ship performant, reliable, and global products. This includes:

RPCs and Historical Data

Enterprises require reliable and accurate on-chain data. Helius offers:

• Gatekeeper: A global, low-latency edge network.
• Solana archival system: Fastest, most complete solution for retrieving any data from the genesis block.

Enterprise Use Cases:

• Looking up transactions
• Historical backfills and indexing
• Reporting, audits, and compliance

Real-Time Data Streaming

Helius provides a suite of low-latency data streaming services for critical enterprise needs:

• WebSockets: Subscribe to any account, program, or transaction.
• LaserStream (gRPC): Low-latency streaming with 24-hour replay and automatic failover, significantly faster than WebSockets.
• Raw Shreds: Fastest on-chain signals delivered over UDP.

Enterprise Use Cases:

• Immediate alerts for trades and payments
• Listening for arbitrages
• Monitoring new token launches
• Sending push notifications for deposits
• Updating analytics and dashboards in real time

Validator-as-a-Service (VaaS)

Trusted by institutions like Bitwise, Helius's VaaS enables FIs to offer staking to customers, earn yield on SOL, and secure the network. As the top Solana validator, Helius ensures performant, reliable, and compliant operations, offering:

• Custom validator reporting
• APIs for programmatic stake management
• Integrations with BitGo, Coinbase, Anchorage, and Fireblocks

Enterprise Use Cases:

• Offering staking to exchange customers
• Creating a branded Liquid Staking Token (LST)
• Launching ETFs with staking or running private validators

Developer APIs

A comprehensive suite of Solana APIs for common developer tasks:

• DAS API: Interacting with tokens and NFTs.
• Webhooks: Building event-driven workflows.
• Wallet API: Querying wallets via simple REST endpoints.
• ZK APIs: Minting and interacting with compressed assets.
• Enhanced Transactions API: Human-readable transactions.

Enterprise Use Cases:

• Querying wallet identities and history
• Saving money on bulk payouts and airdrops
• Getting metadata, prices, and histories for any token
• Parsing on-chain transactions with human-readable data
• Listening to on-chain events to trigger event-based workflows

Landing Transactions

Helius optimizes transaction landing infrastructure for scale, cost-effectiveness, and consistency:

• Priority fee estimation
• Staked connections for sendTransaction requests
• Sender for high-frequency trading (HFT) and competitive landing

Enterprise Use Cases:

• Landing trades with 0-slot latency
• Guaranteeing payments regardless of congestion
• Running payroll and payouts without overspending on fees

AI-Native Tooling

SDP is designed for AI coding platforms, and Helius provides a full suite of AI tools:

• Helius CLI: 95+ commands.
• Helius MCP: 60+ tools and skills.
• Helius Claude Code Plugin: Comprehensive integration for AI agents.

Enterprise Use Cases:

• Empowering AI agents to become Solana experts and one-shot any application or product development.

Why Helius for Solana Developer Platform?

Helius has built its infrastructure to the stringent standards required by regulated financial institutions, demonstrating proven resilience and expertise during Solana's largest network events. They have consistently served the ecosystem's highest-volume applications and remained a steadfast partner. For fintechs and enterprises exploring SDP, Helius offers the necessary infrastructure, experience, and Solana-native expertise to confidently move from concept to production.

About Helius

Founded in 2022, Helius is the #1 developer platform and top validator in the Solana ecosystem with over 14M SOL staked. Backed by prominent VC firms including Foundation Capital and Founders Fund, Helius powers critical crypto teams like Coinbase, Phantom, and Pump.fun, and is the infrastructure provider of choice for regulated institutions such as Bitwise.