Solana Breakpoint 2025 kicked off at 9:00 AM, with the crowd at the kiosk ready with their badges, which they collected a day in advance. With the Solana tote bag hanging on their shoulder, whispers and conversations were echoing through the doorways of Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi.
The eagerly-awaited event’s layout carried the Solana spirit, with each zone branded under playful degen titles like GarbageDAO, SpineDAO, Lock In, Leg Day, and so on.
The main stage – aptly titled Absolute Cinema – opened at 10:30 AM, with Lily Liu taking over to address the crowd. Solana decentralized applications and technologies (DATs) were the major agenda for deep-dive conversations, new product launches, and bold visions for the next era of on-chain finance.
Solana’s DATs dominated hallway chatter, and it was clear from the onset that this year’s Breakpoint was about real products shipping and not just speculation.
Chats and speculations
Fireside chats and panels announced launches of what the Solana projects had in mind for 2026.
Adam Levi, the co-founder of Backed Finance, spoke as the official issuer of xStocks’ digital tokens on a blockchain. He outlined the plans for 2026 from market segmentation into 3 categories – crypto natives, the underbanked, and institutions – aiming to make xStocks more usable and accessible.
He also addressed the launch of xBridge, in partnership with Chainlink, to increase the usability of xStocks on-chain.
Other notable announcements included:
- Every Solana token will be available instantly to trade by 100 million users on Coinbase through decentralized exchanges (DEX) without listings.
- Global Systemically Important Bank will issue assets on Solana before any other network.
- Michael Lau, Head of Business Development, Bullish, and the chairman of Consensus, mentioned their partnership with the Solana Foundation to make Solana-native stablecoins the primary digital asset across Bullish’s exchange and clearing services that are empowering custody, transactions, payments, settlements and other potential product innovations.
- Paxos co-founder and CEO, Chad Cascarilla, said that tokenizing assets on Solana can increase trading volume by 10x to 100x. He believes the GENIUS Act has helped prevent the creation of too many layers of fragility in the financial system.
- Keel, an onchain capital allocator, announced a $500 funding for Solana Real World Assets (RAW)
NFTs, memecoins, magazines, posters, stickers, plushies, robots playing chess, and, above all, creators; you name it, they had it. The tracks of bluish-green spilt the arena like never before, with the best keynote speakers and fireside chats, including Anthony Scaramucci, introducing his new book.
Scaramucci’s Solana Rising
Anthony Scaramucci took over the stage for a very short conversation, announcing his new book, ‘Solana Rising’, which had interviews with Anatoly Yakovenko, Raj Gokal and, Lily Liu. He remarked that “a whole host of the founding group of Solana people from the Solana family.”
Breakpoint catered to every tribe, with fitness freaks challenging each other to planks and push-ups, arcades for gamers, and traders staking their tokens to win freebies.
Meeting Player1taco.eth
CDO at ManifestNetwork, known by the name Player1taco.eth, browsed through SOL lanes wearing 229 event badges he collected for almost 2 and a half years.
The atmosphere echoed with all that exists in the degen culture: a space that screams the embrace of Solana, people expressing themselves to their hearts’ content, holding onto Solana-tagged sneakers or creative stickers with their BP25 badges.
