The foundation invests its funds into teams on the revenue-recycling chain. The screening criteria are strict—you need to understand derivatives and be willing to co-build for the long term. Opportunities in the front end and the insurance fund are also opening up.

Solana’s official announcement states that it will build a fully on-chain perpetual contracts ecosystem, with order placement, matching, clearing, and other processes executed entirely on-chain. The goal is to deliver institutional-grade speed and low costs. The foundation will fund projects that are fully on-chain, priced with real bilateral liquidity, and release open-source core code, prioritizing teams with derivatives experience whose returns are routed back to the chain. It also invites the development of supporting infrastructure such as front ends, aggregators, vaults, and market-making tools.