Built for the Solana builder economy

Contributions settle in trust.
We make them settle on-chain.

Solward turns real work on Solana projects — code, content, design, community, capital — into verifiable reputation that earns rewards. The settlement layer for the people who build the ecosystem.

10,000+
Solana devs · #1 chain
~$0.001
cost per attestation
400ms
work + pay, one tx
CONTRIBUTION RECEIPT ● PENDING
CONTRIBUTORleo.sol
PROJECTTideFi · launched on Kickstart
WORKAudit fix · PR #214 merged
VERIFIERgithub-oracle ✓
CATEGORYEngineering · +18 rep
Escrow · awaiting verification
1,200 USDC
Attestation minted · reputation updated · paid
The gap

Launching a token takes minutes. Proving you built it takes nothing — because there's no way to.

Launchpads removed the capital barrier. The bottleneck moved to credible contribution, and nobody built the rail for it.

01

Contributors are invisible

Ship a critical PR, design a brand, write the thread that drives a launch — none of it follows you. Your reputation lives in scattered Discord roles and screenshots.

02

Projects can't find or trust talent

A founder fresh off a Kickstart launch has an idea and a token, but no reliable way to find a vetted contributor, prove the work, or pay for outcomes.

03

Rewards are arbitrary

Airdrops reward wallets, not work. Bounties get gamed. Grant committees move slowly. The value actually created is never priced.

04

The launchpad era made it worse

Thousands of ideas launch frictionlessly. Almost none can mobilize and reward the talent that would make them real.

The protocol

Three layers that turn work into a record you own.

An open primitive at the base, a marketplace in the middle, compounding rewards on top.

Layer 1

Proof of Contribution

An open standard for attesting work on Solana. Every merged PR, published post, design delivery, or community milestone becomes a soulbound attestation tied to your wallet — issued by projects, peers, or automated oracles, and weighted by the issuer's own reputation. The result is a portable, composable reputation graph any app can read.

soulbound attestationsgithub + content oraclesopen on-chain graph
Layer 2

The Contribution Market

Projects post outcome-based bounties escrowed in USDC or their own token. Contributors apply with their Solward reputation as their resume — no cold DMs. On delivery, work is verified, the attestation mints, and escrow releases automatically. Reputation and payment settle in the same transaction.

outcome bountiesauto-escrowreputation-gated access
Layer 3

Reputation Rewards

Projects and ecosystem funds run retroactive reward rounds that pay the highest-impact contributors — scored objectively by the graph, not a closed committee. Your public Solward profile unlocks gated bounties, better rates, allowlists, and voting weight across any project that reads it.

retroactive roundsverifiable profilecross-project weight
Walkthrough

Maya launches TideFi on EasyA Kickstart. Here's what happens next.

01 · FUND

Bounties from treasury

Token's live, no team yet. Maya funds three bounties — audit fix, launch campaign, brand kit — straight from TideFi's treasury.

02 · BUILD

Reputation = resume

Leo's profile shows 14 verified PRs, so he's auto-approved for the gated audit bounty. He ships the fix.

03 · SETTLE

Verify, mint, pay

The oracle confirms the merge. Escrow releases USDC and mints a soulbound attestation — in one transaction.

04 · COMPOUND

The flywheel turns

A Foundation retro round later pays Leo automatically. His proof is public. The next founder finds him instantly.

Why Solana, why now

This only works here — and the timing only works now.

The launchpad needs a labor layer

Kickstart makes ideas instantly tradable. The natural next question — who builds the idea, and how do they get paid? — is exactly what Solward answers. Every launch becomes fundable with talent, not just capital.

Composable, not a walled garden

The reputation graph is open on-chain data. Jupiter, Drift, Superteam, hackathon organizers, and any future app can read it. Solward grows the whole ecosystem instead of fencing off a corner.

Only viable at Solana speed & cost

Sub-cent fees and sub-second finality make it economical to attest thousands of micro-contributions and settle micro-rewards — impossible on slower, costlier chains.

Rides the institutional wave

As Mastercard, Worldpay, and Western Union build on the Solana Developer Platform, verifiable contributor reputation becomes infrastructure they need too: who can they trust to build, and how is it proven?

The token

$WARD aligns projects, contributors, and verifiers.

Fair launch, builder-aligned — in the spirit of Kickstart. No presale. A meaningful allocation reserved to reward contributors retroactively.

Utility & governance

Stake to attest

Verifiers and issuers stake $WARD to vouch for work. Bad attestations are slashable — the graph stays honest.

Reward rounds

Funds and projects denominate retroactive rewards in $WARD or stablecoins routed through Solward.

Governance

Holders set category weights, dispute rules, and treasury allocation across the protocol.

Access

Top-reputation contributors and stakers unlock premium bounties and reduced fees.

Roadmap

From a working demo to the default reputation layer on Solana.

PHASE 0
Now

Proof

Concept, brand, community, and a working demo of the proof-of-contribution standard on devnet.

PHASE 1
Mainnet

The Market

Launch the Contribution Market with USDC-escrowed outcome bounties and the first GitHub + content oracles. Onboard 25 launchpad-stage projects.

PHASE 2
Open data

The Graph

Open the reputation graph as public on-chain data with a read API and SDK, so any Solana app can integrate Solward profiles.

PHASE 3
Token

Reward Rounds

Run the first retroactive reward round with an ecosystem partner. Ship $WARD via fair launch.

PHASE 4
Standard

The Standard

Become the default contribution and reputation layer referenced by launchpads, grant programs, and DAOs across Solana.

solward.xyz

Build the chain. Own your record.

Every PR, post, design, and late night becomes reputation you own and rewards you earn — anywhere in the ecosystem, forever.

Build the chain. Own your record.