Company

Solana Foundation

1 interview on Crypto Coin Show

The Solana Foundation supports the development and growth of the Solana blockchain ecosystem. The organization works on integrations and adoption initiatives, including Solana Pay, a payments solution that enables merchants to accept cryptocurrency transactions on the blockchain.

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24:58Interview · Oct 27, 2023Josh Fried on Solana payments reaching 3 million Shopify merchantsAshton Addison speaks with Josh Fried, Head of Commerce Business Development at the Solana Foundation on payments across the Solana ecosystem, their integration with Shopify to 3 million merchants across the USA, using USDC with anyone on Shopify through Solana Pay, and the next steps…Watch the episode →

Market

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Key facts

Founded2017

HeadquartersSwitzerland

On CCS1 interviewOct 2023

Founders

AYAnatoly YakovenkoFounder

Chain TVL: $6.63B DefiLlama

Sectors

Layer 1 blockchain

Project links

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What Solana Foundation told us

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“Any Shopify store and there are more than two and a half million maybe they're getting close to three million Shopify stores now worldwide, any one of these storefronts can go into their merchant dashboard and simply turn on Salon pay as a payment Gateway.”

JFJosh FriedHead of Commerce Business Development · Oct 2023▶Watch at 11:30

From: Josh Fried on Solana payments reaching 3 million Shopify merchants →

Oct 2023
JFJosh Fried · Josh Fried on Solana payments reaching 3 million Shopify merchants
“In the two months that we since we've launched this integration there are more than 300 stores that have already implemented this checkout flow and some of them are doing tens of thousands of dollars through Salon pay and USDC as a transaction method.”
▶Watch at 13:22