Helius Joins Solana Developer Platform

Imagine a world where a payment between a business in New York and a supplier in Seoul settles in milliseconds, not days. 

Where a trade executes and clears in the same instant, eliminating the counterparty risk that T+1 settlement was designed to manage. 

Where a farmer in Nigeria, a freelancer in Manila, and a first-gen college student in Texas have access to the same financial products because all they need is the internet and a smartphone.

This isn't fantasy.

This is possible, and already happening on Solana. 

Solana processes tens of millions of transactions per day with near-instant finality and fees measured in fractions of a cent. 

Blockspace, speed, and cost are no longer blockers.

What's been missing is the bridge: an enterprise-grade platform that lets the world's financial institutions cross from legacy financial rails onto Solana’s programmable, global, always-on financial infrastructure without needing to first become blockchain experts.

That bridge is here.

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. 

SDP gives Mastercard, Worldpay, Western Union, and other vanguard fintechs building on Solana a compliant and legitimate path to building real financial products powered by crypto — from stablecoin issuance to remittances and RWA tokenization.

How Enterprise Fintechs Use Helius

For enterprises choosing Solana, we provide everything you need to ship performant, reliable, and truly global products.

Here's what that looks like in practice:

RPCs and Historical Data

Enterprises need access to reliable and accurate data onchain to do anything on Solana.

With recent innovations such as Gatekeeper, our global, low-latency edge network, and our brand-new Solana archival system, enterprises get the fastest, most complete solution for retrieving any piece of data from Solana since the genesis block.

Enterprise Use Cases

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

Real-Time Data Streaming 

We provide a suite of low-latency data streaming services for enterprise use cases that require live data:

• WebSockets - subscribe to any account, program, or transaction
• LaserStream (gRPC) - low-latency streaming with 24-hour replay and automatic failover, significantly faster vs. WSS
• Raw Shreds - the fastest onchain signals delivered over UDP

Whether you’re trading or simply needing real-time notifications, our streaming services make your products responsive and snappy.

Enterprise Use Cases

• Provide immediate alerts for trades and payments
• Listen for arbitrages
• Monitor new token launches
• Send push notifications for deposits
• Update analytics and dashboards in real time

Validator-as-a-Service (VaaS) 

Trusted by institutions such as Bitwise, our Validator-as-a-Service (VaaS) offering enables FIs to provide staking to their customers, earn yield on SOL, participate in consensus, and secure the Solana network.

As the top Solana validator, we’re uniquely positioned to help ETF issuers, asset managers, and institutions looking to stake SOL operate performant, reliable, and compliant Solana validators.

In addition to procuring hardware, managing network upgrades, and ensuring redundancy, we provide institutions with: 

• Custom validator reporting
• APIs for programmatically managing stake
• Integrations with BitGo, Coinbase, Anchorage, and Fireblocks

Enterprise Use Cases

• Offer staking to exchange customers
• Create a branded Liquid Staking Token (LST)
• Launch ETFs with staking or run private validators

Developer APIs 

We offer a comprehensive suite of Solana APIs for completing common developer tasks, including: 

• DAS API for interacting with tokens and NFTs
• Webhooks for building event-driven workflows
• Wallet API for querying wallets via simple REST endpoints
• ZK APIs for minting and interacting with compressed assets
• Enhanced Transactions API for human-readable transactions

Enterprise Use Cases

• Query wallet identities and their history
• Save money on bulk payouts and airdrops
• Get metadata, prices, and histories for any token
• Parse onchain transactions with human-readable data
• Listen to onchain events to trigger event-based workflows

Landing Transactions

Writing new data to Solana (e.g., transferring stablecoins, executing trades, deploying programs, etc.) requires landing transactions.

From estimating priority fees to landing simple sendTransaction requests via staked connections and racing to land trades via Sender before your HFT competitors, we have relentlessly optimized every part of our sending infrastructure to ensure your Solana transactions land consistently — and cost-effectively — at scale.

Enterprise Use Cases

• Land trades with 0-slot latency
• Guarantee payments land regardless of congestion
• Run payroll and payouts without overspending on fees

AI-Native Tooling

SDP is explicitly designed to be used out of the box by AI coding platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.

We have built a full suite of AI tools to match: 

• Helius CLI with 95+ commands
• Helius MCP with 60+ tools and skills
• Helius Claude Code Plugin with everything you need

Enterprise Use Cases

With the Helius AI toolkit, your agents become Solana experts, and gain the ability to one-shot any application or product.

Why Helius?

The world we're building toward — 150ms finality, T+0 trading, global access to financial products for anyone with a smartphone and internet connection — is a world built on Solana.

Mastercard, Worldpay, and fintechs building on Solana via SDP represent a new class of builders that'll drive the ecosystem’s next era of growth.

These are regulated financial institutions with strict uptime requirements, compliance obligations, and zero tolerance for infrastructure that fails under load.

Helius has been built to exactly this standard. 

We have handled Solana's largest network events.

We've served the ecosystem's highest-volume apps from day one. 

We never flinched, faltered, or left when things got tough.

For fintechs and enterprises exploring SDP, we have the infrastructure, proven experience, and Solana-native expertise you need to confidently go from idea to production.

If you're building on Solana, choose the best. 

Contact our team to get started.

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 Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, Chapter One, Reciprocal Ventures, and other leading VC firms, Helius powers crypto’s most important teams, including Coinbase, Phantom, Pump.fun, and is the infrastructure provider of choice for regulated institutions like Bitwise.