SOL Strategies CTO Max Kaplan recently hosted Erik Ashdown, Co-Founder at Pye Finance, for a conversation exploring validator-centered DeFi and the evolution of staking infrastructure on Solana. The discussion followed SOL Strategies' operational partnership with Pye Finance. The conversation covered how Pye is building programmable stake accounts and validator-aligned DeFi markets.

Staking has always been fundamental to securing Solana, yet how stake is managed has barely evolved. Limited flexibility around terms, liquidity, and DeFi access has constrained both validators and stakers. Through early collaboration with Pye, SOL Strategies is helping shape programmable staking markets on Solana, bringing a validator’s perspective to their design before they scale.

SOL Strategies marked the launch of its liquid staking token, STKESOL, alongside an in-depth discussion led by Interim CEO Michael Hubbard and CTO Max Kaplan with special guest, Loopscale Co-Founder Mary Gooneratne.

SOL Strategies is excited to announce the launch of STKESOL, a new algorithmic liquid staking token (LST), supporting the Solana network and dozens of smaller validators while offering stakers liquidity and decentralized finance use cases.

SOL Strategies CTO Max Kaplan hosted Justin Wang, CEO of Zeus Network, for a discussion on Solana’s role as an execution layer, what it takes to build resilient cross-chain infrastructure and how Zeus Network is unlocking Bitcoin liquidity and yield opportunities on Solana.

SOL Strategies CTO Max Kaplan hosted DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa for a discussion on the rise of high-performance networking for Solana and other high-performance blockchains, and what it means for the future of Internet Capital Markets.

Introducing solana-validator-ha, SOL Strategies open source, gossip-based high availability (HA) manager for Solana validators.

SOL Strategies CTO Max Kaplan hosted Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder for a discussion on the evolving infrastructure of Solana's transaction supply chain and its implications for capital markets.

A letter to shareholders from Interim CEO, Michael Hubbard