Solana Consulting and Advisory Services

Solana is the fastest-growing smart contract platform in the world, powering the most actively used applications in crypto today. From trading and payments to gaming and social, millions of users interact with Solana-based apps every day. 

As tokenization accelerates, stablecoins experience record adoption, and Bitcoin enters balance sheets worldwide, business leaders are racing to define their blockchain strategy, and many are turning to Solana. With one of the most active user bases and the highest number of new developers entering the space, Solana has become the leading platform for building the next generation of blockchain applications.

As the leading infrastructure provider and validator on Solana, our team of engineers, researchers, and designers is uniquely positioned to help enterprises build on Solana and execute their strategy.

This article introduces our Solana consulting and advisory services, who we work with, and how to get started. If you’re interested in consulting with us, please submit our advisory intake form.

What Solana blockchain consulting services does Helius provide?

Our consulting and advisory services are designed to help you quickly understand how Solana works, how to architect your product, and how to get to market. Specifically, we advise teams on:

Technical Architecture

From consensus to block propagation, we understand how Solana works and can help you design scalable, secure, and high-performance applications that maximize all of Solana’s unique architectural advantages. Leverage the latest technology advancements on Solana, such as Confidential Balances and ZK compression, to meet compliance requirements, lower costs, and get the most out of Solana.

While we don’t offer in-house Solana program development services, we work closely with development shops that are experts in writing optimized smart contracts using the latest, high-performance frameworks, such as Pinocchio, Steel, and Anchor. 

Once programs are written, we help you hire the best Solana auditors, such as Ottersec, Neodyme, and Sec3, to ensure your programs are secure and performant.

Infrastructure, Tooling, and APIs

Our Solana development platform has everything you need to read and write data to Solana. We will help your team optimize your RPC calls, manage your end-to-end data services, and interact with on-chain assets using the DAS and ZK Compression APIs.

Solana Staking and Validator Operations

As Solana’s top validator, we understand how to set up and run Solana validators, safely maximize staking rewards, and integrate staking functionality into applications. 

Whether you want to run your own validator or enable users to stake SOL programmatically to our validator, we will guide you through every step of the process.

Performance Optimization and Tuning

Your business operates at scale, and so should your applications on Solana. From optimizing compute units to reducing data streaming latency and landing transactions on-chain, we will help your engineering team optimize your application from end to end.

Ecosystem Integrations

We help teams joining the Solana ecosystem understand, meet, and integrate with the most important people and applications. To accelerate your time to value, we'll introduce you to Solana’s best distribution and integration partners, enabling you to acquire users quickly.

Vendor Selection and Partnerships

Expanding into a new market such as crypto requires a range of new tools, technologies, and expertise. As the leading infrastructure provider, we maintain close relationships with key teams, including wallet providers, oracles, KYC/compliance teams, onramps, and more. Don’t hire teams blind — let us introduce you to Solana’s best talent.

Go-to-Market and Launch Strategies

Crypto is a market unlike any other in the world. To cut through the noise, find authentic users, and do so in a sustainable way is a monumental challenge in its own right. 

Fortunately, we have years of firsthand experience with marketing to crypto-native users and have established relationships with communities worldwide. 

Whether you’re a fintech company like PayPal expanding to Solana, or an Ethereum-native team like Sky (formerly MakerDAO), we can help.

Who are Helius’s blockchain advisory services for?

Our Solana consulting and advisory services are specifically designed for established startups and enterprise teams. We advise clients throughout every stage of their product development lifecycle — from ideation to proof of concept, to Devnet testing, and deployment to Mainnet. Specifically, our services are best suited for:

Fintechs and Financial Institutions

The entire financial sector is bringing to market blockchain strategies that leverage the efficiencies of distributed ledger technology, tokenization, and stablecoins.

Whether you’re looking to maximize staking rewards with a white label validator, integrate stablecoins into your platform, or deploy custom financial products on-chain, we will accelerate your time to market and avoid common pitfalls like scaling issues and overly complicated infra.

Enterprises Using Permissioned Blockchains

R3, the developers of Corda, an award-winning tokenization platform powering financial digitalization, recently announced their integration with Solana. 

As more financial institutions with permissioned blockchains seek to integrate public networks like Solana, the greater the need is for Solana experts to provide technical guidance.

From core Solana concepts to advanced topics like security, compliance, and access controls — we help teams building private blockchains integrate seamlessly with the Solana tech stack.

By consulting with us, enterprise teams and implementation partners quickly learn how Solana Permissioned Environments work, how to integrate permissioned blockchains with Solana’s permissionless network, and what tools they need to develop enterprise use cases.

Exchanges and Trading Firms

Exchanges, market makers, prop trading firms, HFTs, and other trading companies require fine-tuned infrastructure to reliably stream data, run proprietary trading algorithms, simulate trades and land transactions on-chain even during network congestion. 

As the leading infra provider for exchanges like Coinbase, DeFi apps like Jupiter, Raydium, and Pump, and Telegram trading bots like Axiom and Trojan, we know how to optimize Solana infrastructure for trading firms.

As early supporters of the DoubleZero fiber network, we are positioned to help every latency sensitive company build a scalable Solana stack.

Ethereum-Native Projects Expanding to Solana

The world is multichain, and therefore established projects built on EVM blockchains may want to migrate or expand to Solana. These teams have working products on Ethereum mainnet, Layer 2 blockchains, or EVM alternative L1s and are looking to rewrite their smart contracts for the SVM. These groups mostly require help understanding:

• Solana’s programming model
• How Program Derived Addresses (PDAs) work
• Optimizing Solana programs to minimize compute units
• Accurately calculating priority fees
• Optimizing apps for sending transactions

By consulting with us, teams can quickly find vendors, rewrite their programs, hire auditors, and deploy their apps on mainnet.

Do you offer consulting services for early-stage Solana startups?

If you are an early-stage startup, hackathon participant, or hobbyist developer, we have resources for you, too.

For technical support, join our Discord, ask questions in our public Telegram chat, and apply to our Startup Launchpad.

In addition to us, there are many other teams available to help, including local communities such as Superteam, Solana education providers like Blueshift, developer communities like 76 Devs, and Solana development shops like Exo Technologies.

Why should companies use Helius for Solana consulting?

Helius focuses exclusively on Solana and Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)-based networks. Since day one, our mission has been to accelerate the growth of the SVM ecosystem. This focus has allowed us to develop unmatched expertise and deep technical understanding.

Experience

Since our founding in 2022, we have been a leader in Solana infrastructure and developer tooling. We have contributed to major network improvements including the Digital Asset Standard (DAS), Stake-weighted Quality-of-Service (SWQoS), and ZK Compression. 

Through our experience and scale, our infrastructure has not only supported the largest on-chain events in history like the launch of Trump’s memecoin, but we support the ecosystem’s largest projects including Phantom, Coinbase, Jupiter, Helium, Raydium, Chainalysis, MoonPay, Pyth, and more.

Trust

In addition to being the entrusted infrastructure provider of Solana’s largest apps, we are also Solana’s top validator by stake.

With over 20 thousand native stake accounts and 11,184 holders of hSOL, our Liquid Staking Token, we are trusted by the everyday users of the Solana network. 

With custodial partners like BitGo, Fireblocks, and Anchorage, and enterprise customers like Coinbase, Exodus, and Brave relying on us, you can have confidence that our processes, infrastructure, and team can deliver reliable solutions for your company.

Security

Beyond our technical acumen, we operate at the highest levels of operational security and compliance, as demonstrated by our SOC 2 Type II certification. We invite you to review our Trust Center for comprehensive details on our commitment to enterprise-grade security.

How does Helius’s Solana consulting services work?

Our consulting services are extremely simple: you share your business cases and product requirements with our team of engineers, and we’ll help you build it on Solana. 

Unlike typical consulting firms with long-term contracts and exhaustive processes, we are an extension of your team that is always available to answer questions, recommend approaches, and introduce you to Solana-native builders who can help realize your product vision.

Once the pre-launch consulting work and mainnet deployment are complete, the relationship doesn’t end.

Our world-class, 24/7 support team is always on call to answer questions, troubleshoot issues, and deploy fixes.

How to Get Started with Solana Advisory Services

Complete our consulting intake form to start working with our team of consultants. This form asks for your contact information, basic details about what you’re building, and the strategic areas with which your team needs guidance. Once we review your submission, our team will reach out and kick off your project with all the necessary stakeholders.

Solana is transforming every industry worldwide. 

Don’t get left behind. Design, build, and launch with Helius.