Written for people brand new to blockchain — institutional newcomers and individuals alike. The 136 questions we get asked most, all answered in plain words: what RWA is, how issuance works, what it costs, how safe it is, and why it matters to you.
15 starter questions — what it is, who built it, whether it can be trusted, and where to verify everything yourself.
A public blockchain purpose-built for putting real-world assets on-chain. It turns bonds, property, gold — real assets — into compliant digital certificates that can be bought and sold on-chain. Think of it as a highway built specifically for that kind of business.
All three are blockchains, but with different jobs: Bitcoin is "digital gold", Ethereum is a general-purpose town square where anything goes, and Solon is a finance-dedicated lane — optimized for the three things asset issuance cares about most: compliance, speed and cost.
In 594 BC, the Athenian lawgiver Solon issued the Seisachtheia — the "shaking-off of burdens" — and abolished debt bondage: you could no longer be enslaved for owing money. That belief is written into this chain's slogan: "No one should be enslaved by debt." Which is also why its home lane is bonds, credit and other debt assets.
The testnet went live on October 10, 2026, with 11 modules all clickable on-chain: explorer, wallet, faucet, DEX, lending, order book, regulated-token contracts… Don't trust the marketing page — status page and explorer, see for yourself.
Testnet = the mock exam room. The money is fake, break anything you like, and you can use it right now. Mainnet = the real exam, real money, opens after dual security audits (expected within 2026). Issuers rehearse the entire issuance on testnet and only move to mainnet after acceptance.
SLN is the chain's utility token — pays gas, powers governance. At testnet stage it has zero value and has never been sold by us. Anyone offering you an "official SLN presale" is a scam — block them on sight.
Yes. The site ships with a web wallet (no installs), a faucet (free test tokens in one click) and an issuance desk (three-step token launch). If you can use a web page, you can use Solon.
Built by a team combining top-tier global investment banking with professional Web3 engineering — core members come from Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, Robinhood, HSBC and BlackRock. Benchmarked against the Robinhood Chain playbook, with early backing from Chainfir Capital. More importantly: all contracts are open source, audits are disclosed, and a bounty program (up to $50K) hangs in public — projects that won't open their code are the ones asking you to believe with your eyes closed.
Three steps, five minutes: ① open the status page and watch blocks being produced; ② open the explorer and click into any transaction; ③ follow the 15-minute acceptance walkthrough and send a transfer yourself. No signup, no money.
The chain's ID number. When you add Solon to MetaMask or any wallet, you enter 51051 so the wallet knows which chain it's talking to. The docs include a copy-paste parameter table.
Testnet is completely free (tokens come from the faucet). Mainnet gas is priced at 1 Gwei — effectively near zero per transaction. That's the most tangible difference from Ethereum mainnet: send ten thousand transactions without ever checking the gas bill.
It means: if you know the Ethereum toolset, you already know Solon — MetaMask, Solidity contracts and Hardhat all work unchanged. For institutions: no retraining for your engineers. For individuals: every button in your wallet looks the same.
Two nodes (Singapore + Seoul) is the testnet-stage Clique PoA design, and it buys you 1–2 second finality with zero reorgs. The mainnet roadmap explicitly expands to a validator committee with multisig governance. This is the standard growth path for every new chain: run stable on a small consensus set first, then decentralize step by step.
Business and technical support: hi@solon.digital. Security issues go through the security center disclosure channel (bounty up to $50K). The AI assistant in the bottom-right corner answers site questions any time.
15 concept questions — finish this chapter and you're ahead of 90% of the industry.
RWA = Real World Asset, brought on-chain. Analogy: take a whole cake — a building, a basket of bonds — and cut it on-chain into ten thousand numbered digital slices, each backed by a legal claim. The cake itself never moves; what moves is its digital ownership.
Because real assets suffer three pains: they sell slowly (property takes months), they gate-keep (millions minimum to enter), and they're stuck locally (global capital can't reach them). On-chain: slices small enough for anyone, traded 24/7 worldwide, ledger visible to everyone. The asset doesn't change — how it moves changes.
No, but they're family. Stablecoins are "the dollar, on-chain" — the simplest RWA (~$300B), and they've already proven the route works. Broad RWA is treasuries, bonds, property, gold, stocks… ~$30.8B today, six-fold growth in four years. Stablecoins are the vanguard; the main force is still behind.
NFTs are unique certificates (good for art); RWA tokens are standardized, divisible shares (good for financial assets) that must carry legal structure and compliance gating — an NFT transfer doesn't check your ID, an RWA transfer must. One line: NFTs are limited sneakers; RWA tokens are on-chain stock.
On-chain RWA ≈ $30.8B (mid-2026); institutional projections: $10–16 trillion by 2030. The players are all regulars: BlackRock BUIDL (~$2.9B), Franklin Templeton, Ondo, Apollo… This round isn't retail chasing narratives — it's the world's largest asset managers building real positions.
This: the giants validated the model, but their rails only serve institutions. Tokenization lets the same class of assets be sliced smaller and opened to more accredited investors — products that used to require $1M minimums can, within compliance rules, become accessible at far smaller sizes.
Basically yes — all mean recording an asset's rights as an on-chain token. Like "download", "grab" and "copy" describing one action. Don't let the vocabulary spin you.
The building stays put — only the ownership shares move. Typical structure: place the building inside a legal wrapper company (an SPV), then split the company's shares into N on-chain tokens. Your token = a share of the SPV = indirect rights to part of the building. The building lives in the real world; its "stock" lives on-chain.
Yes — if the structure is done right. Legal relationships live in the SPV, the legal opinions and the licensed intermediaries (off-chain); the on-chain token simply makes those legal rights divisible, transferable and automatically executable. Issuance must go through a licensed law firm structure (we handle the full chain of introductions). The chain doesn't replace law — it makes legal terms far cheaper to enforce.
Yes, and both are racing. Hong Kong's SFC has issued tokenized-securities circulars and opened sandboxes; the Stablecoins Ordinance takes effect in 2026; Singapore's MAS is equally active. The regulators' stance: welcome — but licensed, gated and disclosed. That's exactly why Solon builds compliance into the protocol layer: every action regulators demand, the chain natively supports.
Let the data answer: RWA grew six-fold in two years, with trillion-dollar projections for 2030. Compare with stablecoins in 2019 or DeFi in 2020 — not too early, just at the steep part of the curve. For issuers, early = first-launch slots and lower rails; for investors, early = actual underlying assets instead of stories.
Anything can bubble, but RWA's foundation is real assets with cash flows, valuation methods and legal structure — fundamentally different from pure-narrative tokens. The anti-bubble toolkit: check the underlying (what's the asset), check the structure (legal opinions), check the disclosure (PoR ledger). Solon publishes all three.
Yes, but usually under accredited/professional-investor rules per jurisdiction (asset or income thresholds, e.g. Hong Kong's common standards). Per-product minimums are set by the issuer and counsel under regulation — tokenization lowers the minimum ticket, it doesn't waive the identity check.
Institutions: large subscriptions, market-making, custody integration, regulatory reporting — see chapter 7. Individuals: after accreditation, small tickets, dividends and secondary trading — a web wallet is enough. One chain, two doors.
Look at the numbers: on-chain private credit is ≈$14B, the #1 RWA category. Treasuries, notes, receivables, supply-chain finance — these "debts" are highly standardized, have clear cash flows and enormous volume; they fit tokenization best. That's exactly the lane Solon chose, and it aligns perfectly with the "shaking-off of burdens" mission — the biggest piece of the market, and the one our brand was born for.
20 practical questions — assets, structure, contracts, timeline and cost, all laid bare.
Asset & goals review, feasibility opinion (Week 1)
SPV, valuation, legal opinion (Weeks 2–4)
Compliance rules written in one pass (Weeks 5–6)
Full dress rehearsal on testnet (Weeks 7–8)
Mainnet mint, subscription, trading (Week 9+)
Not code — book an issuance consult (free). Bring three things: what's the asset, how much do you want to raise, where are your investors. We deliver a feasibility opinion: can it be done, how, and roughly what it costs. Forty-five minutes, nothing signed. Email hi@solon.digital.
Four words: verifiable and documented. Good fits: bonds/notes, receivables, commercial-property income rights, gold, PE fund shares, tokenized stocks. Bad fits: disputed ownership, no valuation basis, legally non-transferable. Unsure? Send us the asset list — the look-over is free.
That's enough for the first meeting; diligence will flag anything missing.
SPV = a clean little company set up just to hold this asset. Think of it as a safety deposit box: the asset inside is fully ring-fenced from your main business's debts and taxes. If your main business runs into trouble, the box is untouched; if the asset runs into trouble, only the box is affected. Investors buy shares in the box — the legal relationships stay crisp.
Three things: is the asset real (title, liens, litigation), are the numbers real (cash flows, valuation basis), are the people clean (sanctions lists, adverse media). Sounds scary, but it protects the issuer — the diligence report is your first trust credential handed to investors.
A third-party licensed valuer (property appraisers, accounting firms), using standard methods (DCF, comparables). Issuers can't self-value — a valuation where you're both athlete and referee doesn't clear the market.
No. Solon ships a ready-made regulated token suite (8 deployed contracts) and a three-step issuance desk — gating, lockups, dividends and redemption are "fill in parameters", not "write code". We handle the tech; you handle the asset and the investors.
A set of standard parts that writes regulatory requirements into contract code: only KYC'd wallets may hold (whitelist), can't sell before maturity (lockup), dividends arrive automatically (dividend pool), over-limit purchases blocked (limits), rule-based exit anytime (redemption). On other chains you assemble these yourself at your own cost; on Solon they're factory default — the most essential difference from Ethereum and Solana.
KYC = identity verification (Know Your Customer); the whitelist = "the list of wallets that passed". Before any transfer, the contract checks both sides against the list — any miss and the transfer reverts on the spot, with a machine-readable reason code (9 categories) on-chain. That's not a bug; that's the basic decency of a securities-grade asset: people of unknown provenance don't touch regulated assets.
Lockup = tokens are frozen for a set time after issuance (or released in tranches). Regulators commonly require this for newly issued, thinly disclosed securities (anti-insider, anti-pump). On Solon the lockup curve lives in the contract — unlocks happen automatically, nobody's discretion involved, no "special favors" possible.
No. The DividendPool contract pays yield straight to every investor wallet based on a holding snapshot — ten thousand holders, one click. No more Excel-and-wires-and-reconciliation weekends.
Three gates managed by the LimitBook contract: max per ticket (purchase limit), who may hold (transfer whitelist), which jurisdictions are off-limits (regional lists). Resale restrictions regulators impose on different investor classes get enforced natively at contract level.
Two exit routes: ① sell on the secondary market — list on the order book for other accredited investors (24/7); ② rule-based redemption — the redemption channel is written into the contract; at maturity or trigger, investors return tokens and receive funds at NAV. You never have to pray for "someone to take the other side".
Typical: 6–9 weeks. Week 1 consult → weeks 2–4 structure & diligence (the slow part is always the asset side) → weeks 5–6 contract configuration → weeks 7–8 testnet rehearsal & acceptance → launch from week 9. Want speed? Have your documents ready early — the bottleneck is never the chain; it's the filing cabinet.
Two pieces: on-chain cost ≈ 0 (1 Gwei pricing; deployment and trading are negligible); the main cost is intermediary service fees — legal structure, audit & valuation, licensing path if needed — quoted by asset size, one-time and transparent. Against the 3–7% stacked take of traditional fundraising, the structural saving is immediate. Bring an asset list for a real quote; the consult is free.
No. The on-chain engineering (contract deployment, gating config, explorer, status page, subscription portal) is delivered by us; at most you assign one business-savvy owner on your side. Want to insource later? Docs, APIs and open contracts are all public — no lock-in, only options.
Full dress rehearsal on testnet: real role-play (issuer / investor / regulator-observer) across issue → subscribe → transfer → dividend → redeem, deliberately triggering every gate once (non-whitelisted gets rejected, freeze takes effect), all archived. You sign the acceptance checklist; no pass, no mainnet.
No. Routine operations (dividend triggers, whitelist maintenance, disclosure data) are button-clicks in the governance console; anomalies (unusual flows, node alerts) are watched by the status page and alerting. Your job is "press buttons by the rules", not "keep vigil".
Yes, and every phase delivers standalone value: stop after week 4 and you walk away with a complete compliance structure plan — a valuable document in itself. Every phase is an asset, not a sunk cost.
Long-term support: disclosure and regulatory-report tech, investor KYC ops, secondary liquidity and market-maker introductions, protocol upgrades. Issuance is the beginning, not the end — our economics depend on you operating well afterwards, so the incentives align.
15 comparison questions — every option on the table.
Ethereum wins at "custody of large assets": deepest institutional trust, biggest liquidity. But its compliance is app-layer bolt-on (whitelists and freezes self-assembled), settlement takes minutes with possible reorgs, and gas prices lock out high-frequency, small-ticket bonds and notes. Smaller assets, real compliance, high volume — that's exactly Solon's slot. For very large treasury issuances, Ethereum honestly remains the default; we don't fight that.
Fast, yes. But: ① not EVM (teams retrain on a Rust toolchain); ② repeated full-network outages in its history — securities want "never stops + determinism"; ③ same bolt-on compliance story. Great for trading volume; not for holding other people's life savings.
The US broker Robinhood's own tokenized-stock chain (an L2). It validated that "financial institutions want their own chain". But it's one company's private infrastructure — securities issued solely by its Jersey subsidiary, third parties can't enter on equal terms, and US users ironically can't use it. Solon is the open version of the same logic: brokers, banks and funds all get to issue.
The first RWA-specific chain — from zero to $645M on-chain and 259K holders in a year, proving the thesis. Solon's differences: deeper compliance (protocol layer vs their engine layer), a fuller native finance stack (order book / DEX / lending / insurance / dividends), and a sharper lane focus (debt assets).
Securities-grade compliance is factory default, not an aftermarket bolt-on. Whitelisting, freezing, forced transfer, lockups, dividends, redemption — all written into the protocol layer and verified on-chain. Capabilities that elsewhere take lawyers + auditors + engineers half a year to assemble (and still in silos) work out of the box here.
You send; 1–2 seconds later it's carved in stone, never rolled back. Compare: Ethereum waits minutes with a tiny reorg chance; cross-border bank wires take days. "Arrived means arrived" lets securities settlement skip buffer capital held against rollbacks — a direct efficiency gain.
Two seatbelts: the base layer is PoA authority proof (two validators take turns packaging blocks — fast and stable), the upper layer stamps each block with a verifiable numerical proof field — an auditable seal. You don't need the theory, just the effect: fast, cheap, and with a tamper-evident seal.
Cross-chain bridges are the industry's biggest attack surface — over $2.5B exploited to date. RWA on Solon is issued natively, circulated natively, exited natively — never crosses a bridge. One less bridge, one less vault for hackers to crack.
The ledger mapping "on-chain tokens ↔ real assets underneath", published daily on-chain for anyone to check — including a live-tested mechanism that auto-pauses redemptions when the backing looks abnormal. We say there's gold; we also show you the scale. The ledger lives in the compliance console.
You can — but run the full numbers: legal structure + audit + contract development + continuous auditing + vendor wrangling, several times the cost and time of the Solon route, with components that don't talk to each other (KYC here, freezing there, reporting elsewhere). Big institutions can afford the team; why should a mid-size issuer rebuild the wheel?
PoA block production doesn't burn electricity in a mining race, so the cost floor is structurally low; protocol gas is fixed at 1 Gwei — a rule, not a promotion. Testnet-measured data is in the docs; mainnet pricing will follow the whitepaper. Published when ready, no promises before then.
Honestly, yes — today. Zero-start liquidity, early brand, validators yet to expand; the research report lists them all. The other side: every big chain was small once, and early entry = first-launch asset slots and the lowest rail costs you'll ever see. We don't sugarcoat the risk disclosure; the choice is yours.
After dual audits + penetration testing pass. Watch four checkpoints: ① mainnet launch ② first real-asset issuances (debt especially) ③ validator committee expansion ④ licensed institutional nodes joining. The roadmap has the full release log — the history of promises kept (or not) is right there.
EVM bytecode compatibility means Solidity contracts deploy unchanged; MetaMask / ethers / Hardhat work as-is — swap in chainId 51051 and you're done. And you gain a protocol-layer compliance suite for free.
Real assets, compliance-required, no desire to build a chain, no wish to be locked inside someone else's closed chain — debt/credit/receivables issuers, small and mid brokers and banks, fund and SPV managers. If you're a mega treasury issuer chasing maximum existing liquidity, use Ethereum for now — we won't flatter you.
15 soul-searching questions — data, regulators, hackers, liability. Nothing dodged.
An example says it best. Regulator says: "unverified people cannot buy this security." Traditional approach: the trading platform's internal risk team watches it — move to another platform and you're around it. Code approach: the token contract itself refuses non-whitelisted wallets — take the security onto any platform, anywhere; the token checks the person. The rules travel with the asset. That's protocol-level compliance.
Together they're the minimal complete set for a "controlled security" to run on-chain — all verified on-chain (see contract verification records).
No. The design is "identity stored off-chain, permissions on-chain": passports and documents live in the licensed intermediary's encrypted database (off-chain); the chain holds only an encrypted identity fingerprint plus a "verified" flag. What's public is that verification happened — not who you are. That's the core idea of the ERC-3643 standard (Solon's simplified implementation).
When a transfer gets gated, the chain leaves a specific reason code — recipient unregistered, sender frozen, per-person limit exceeded, jurisdiction restricted, and so on, 9 categories. The value: rejection isn't a black box — investors know why, auditors can check, support doesn't guess. Your traditional bank never tells you the reason code for a blocked wire.
One sentence: tokenized securities are regulated as securities. The SFC has issued tokenized-securities circulars requiring intermediaries to ensure the technology meets disclosure, custody and suitability requirements; VATP licensing governs trading venues; the Stablecoins Ordinance takes effect in 2026. Solon's compliance design (gating / freezing / disclosure / reporting) is built to answer that exact exam paper.
Depends on structure and where you sell — typically the licensed intermediary executes (Type 1: dealing/distribution; Type 9: asset management) and the issuer itself needn't hold every license. We design the structure with partner licensed counsel: licensed channels where required, no over-engineering where not. There is no one-size answer to licensing; each case gets its own design.
Three layers: ① KYC whitelist (people) ② transfer gating and limits (behavior) ③ full-chain audit trail (records) — every action's provenance immutable, one-click export for regulator filings. Traditional AML examines reports after the fact; on-chain AML intercepts during the act.
An international AML standard (FATF): key identity information of sender and receiver must travel with the transfer to the compliance side. The compliance console ships a Travel Rule workflow — a hard requirement for institutional movement of stablecoins and tokenized assets, pre-installed here.
Two layers: ① contract code audits — dual independent security audits + penetration testing before mainnet (disclosed in the security center); ② business audits — on-chain data exports directly to auditors' tooling. The advantage: auditors verify a ledger the whole network has consensus on — far lighter sampling burden.
Paid bug-hunting: anyone who finds a vulnerability gets paid by severity (critical $50K / high $20K / medium $5K / low $1K). Simple logic: turn the world's white-hat hackers into an outsourced security team — far cheaper than letting black hats arrive first. Policy and safe-harbor terms in the security center.
The honest testnet-stage answer: under PoA, two colluding nodes could theoretically rewrite the ledger — which is why the pre-mainnet defense is governance and transparency (open contracts, full-ledger reconcilability, anomaly monitoring), and the post-mainnet defense is decentralization (validator committee + multisig governance, explicitly on the roadmap). Every new chain grows this way: transparency first, power-sharing next.
Yes — tiered incident response: P1 (funds directly threatened) acted on within 15 minutes, P2 within an hour, P3 same day, in a four-step flow (contain → forensics → disclose → fix). Plus the PoR mechanism has been live-tested to auto-pause redemptions when backing looks abnormal — the fuse blows itself, no human required.
Yes — and this is verified, not theoretical: frozen accounts reject all transfers automatically and recover on unfreeze; court-order forced transfer is implemented too. "Code as enforcement support" — instructions from the judicial process get executed precisely at contract level.
Split by legal structure, in writing: issuers own disclosure and asset truthfulness; licensed intermediaries own suitability and distribution compliance; the chain team owns protocol execution and security. The chain waives nobody's legal duties — it just makes every party's performance cheaper and every piece of evidence harder.
The only official domain is solon.digital; the only official inbox is hi@solon.digital. Any "official group", "internal allocation" or DM "support" is fake. And SLN has never had a presale — memorize that and 99% of scams pass you by.
12 hands-on questions — tour the whole chain today (testnet, zero risk).
Four steps, half an hour: ① create an address in the web wallet → ② grab free test tokens at the faucet → ③ look up your address in the explorer → ④ wander the DEX or markets page. No money, no phone-number signup.
MetaMask → add network → enter: name Solon, RPC from the docs, ChainID 51051, symbol SLN, explorer URL as listed. Save, and Solon appears in your network list — behaves exactly like Ethereum.
The free test-token "water cooler". Open the faucet page, paste your address, claim — tokens arrive, explore everything. Test tokens have no value; don't treat them like real money. Their whole purpose is to let you click without fear.
Three actions: ① launch a compliant token with the three-step issuance desk; ② try transferring it to an address that hasn't done KYC — watch it get rejected live (that's compliance gating); ③ place a 24/7 order on the DEX. Finish these three and you understand RWA better than most of the industry.
Solon's first RWA specimen: gold shares as on-chain tokens, with the primary subscription engine open (currently a testnet drill). Individuals can participate per issuance rules after accredited-investor verification — the most tangible way to see "what an RWA looks like".
US names like NVDA, AAPL, TSLA, MSFT as on-chain tokens with dividend logic, tradable around the clock — no waiting for the US market open; place orders on a Saturday at 3am. Asian-timezone retail never has to pull an all-nighter again.
Identity: accredited/professional-investor verification (standards vary by jurisdiction; Hong Kong typically by assets or income). Money: per-product minimums set by the issuer — the whole point of tokenization is that the per-ticket minimum can be cut small. The threshold isn't discrimination; it's regulation protecting people who haven't been shown to understand the risks.
Automatically. The dividend pool pays out based on holding snapshots, straight to your address — visible on-chain, no claim forms, no middlemen. Hold the certificate, receive the yield.
Three iron rules: ① only the solon.digital domain; ② officials never DM you "internal allocations"; ③ SLN has no presale. Break any one = scam. And ignore all "guaranteed returns" talk — real RWA yield comes from the underlying asset, not from referral bonuses.
Yes (free rein on testnet; per product rules on mainnet): earn ~5% APY on SLN deposits; borrow up to 50% against stock tokens; swap freely on the DEX; insurance per the product pages. Every entrance is listed in the site map at Q12.
The path: this handbook → whitepaper (technical full picture) → competitive report (industry position) → developer docs (hands-on) → roadmap (watch deliveries). Finish this set and you're half an insider already.
8 institutional questions — from technical evaluation to partnership terms.
Two weeks, three steps: week 1 — technical evaluation (run the 15-minute acceptance + RPC integration tests); week 2 — structure consult (asset list + target markets + licensing path) and a feasibility opinion; then slot into the issuance pipeline (timeline in chapter 3, Q44). Step one is always: hi@solon.digital.
The standard checklist in the developer docs: configure wallet → claim test tokens → send a transfer → confirm in the explorer → make one RPC call — 15 minutes end to end. Its purpose: don't take our word for it — let your own engineers verify on the spot. If it doesn't pass, nothing after it matters.
Full JSON-RPC table (eth/net/web3/txpool grouped and annotated) + full error-code table (including gating reason codes) + 8-contract address registry + ABI downloads — all in the docs. Standard EVM interfaces: your existing Ethereum code runs by changing the RPC URL.
Three options as needed: ① institution-held hot wallet + cold signing (gating contracts apply as usual); ② integrate a licensed custodian (we support the technical work); ③ MPC custody (on the roadmap). Assets sit inside the compliance rail from day one regardless of choice — custody selection changes no gating logic.
The path: day-one access to the on-chain order book (atomic DvP settlement) → we introduce market-making resources for early depth → natural volume accrues through 24/7 high-frequency scenarios like tokenized stocks. Liquidity is every new chain's homework; we don't sell "billions on day one" fantasies — we provide a real trading venue from day one.
Matched to the issuance jurisdiction (primarily Hong Kong / Singapore). After the structure consult maps your asset type, the named institutions and their quotes come together in the proposal. Principles: licensed, able to sign, recognized by regulators — no packaging deals, no favors-for-friends.
One-click export from the compliance console: on-chain identity lookups, gating event records, dividend flows, regulator-format CSVs. The data carries full-network consensus — evidentiary quality a manual ledger can't touch. This turns compliance reporting from a monthly project into a button.
Four concrete things: ① first-launch slots — top positioning among the first mainnet issuances, when attention concentrates; ② locked rails — early-bird terms lock your future issuance fee schedule; ③ governance voice — early issuers join SIP proposals shaping protocol rules (gating parameters, fee structure); ④ a rehearsal window — drill the entire flow on testnet at zero cost, so on mainnet day you're a step ahead of peers. Details: hi@solon.digital — 45 minutes, free, no hype.
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12 questions — how this chain makes money, which partners we need, how economics are split, and the first step.
Three layers, stated plainly: ① Issuance & onboarding fees — helping asset owners complete on-chain issuance (structuring, contract deployment, compliance middle-office setup), quoted per deal by asset size and complexity, transparent pricing; ② Ongoing operations fees — regulatory reporting, disclosure, market-making introductions and upgrade support after issuance; ③ Network fees — hardcoded at 1 Gwei, effectively near zero.
They're deliberately aligned: most of our revenue is "issuance that succeeds + operations that continue", not a one-off toll. If issuance goes badly, nobody trades, or regulatory reports can't be produced, we don't get the renewal. Our income is tied to how smoothly your assets run.
Low fees are a design choice, not a promotion: grow issuers and volume first, then earn from services and ecosystem scale — the path traditional exchanges and clearing houses have always taken. We also keep the team lean and infrastructure costs predictable: two-node PoA, no hash-power arms race.
Seven categories: ① Asset owners / issuers (bonds, notes, receivables, fund shares, real estate, commodities); ② Law firms and compliance advisers; ③ Audit, valuation and custody providers; ④ Broker-dealers and distribution channels; ⑤ Market makers and liquidity providers; ⑥ Technology partners (wallets, exchanges, custody systems, market-data vendors, security firms); ⑦ Channel and community partners (chambers of commerce, industry associations, universities, media, communities). Whatever is missing is what we go looking for.
Three hard criteria: cash flows are clear (returns can be calculated), rights are registrable (there's a legal instrument behind them), and scale is large enough to amortize issuance cost. Bonds, notes, receivables and fund shares are the classic cases — which is why debt is our home lane. Deals in the tens of millions are most economical; smaller tickets can be pooled.
We don't replace lawyers — we are the on-chain executor of their work. You provide the structure and legal opinion; we translate the terms into contract parameters (whitelist rules, freeze and forced-transfer triggers, disclosure duties) and handle on-chain audit trails plus regulatory report exports. Engagement can be per-deal or under a long-term framework agreement.
Auditors verify contracts and proof of reserves (PoR), with reports published on the security page. Valuers price the underlying asset and feed it into SolonProof gating. Custodians map the off-chain instrument to the on-chain token. Together they form the evidence chain that says "this asset is real" — the stronger it is, the easier the issuance sells.
After issuance, someone has to be on both sides of the book. The chain offers two venues: a limit order book (atomic DvP) and an AMM DEX. Market makers can rehearse strategies on testnet and tune parameters against historical fills; at mainnet we publish the market-making incentive rules and integration docs.
Everything is standard EVM: RPC https://solon.digital/solonrpc/, chainId 51051, 1-second blocks with instant finality. Contract ABIs and bytecode are published in assets/solon-contracts.js; events and logs are read over standard JSON-RPC. Wallets, explorers and market-data systems integrate with zero rework.
Three concrete things: ① Co-branding and joint case studies (credited on the site and in the resource library); ② Joint proposals and shared pricing — we take no cut of a partner's service fees; ③ Priority access to new-product previews and standards work (SIP proposals are credited by name).
A free 45-minute call, nothing signed: bring your asset or capability list, and we'll tell you whether it's feasible, how it would work, roughly what it costs and how long it takes. Proposals, quotes and contracts come after. Email hi@solon.digital with subject prefix [PARTNER].
Don't self-categorize — just send an email describing what you have (assets, clients, licences, technology, audience) and we'll find the slot. If you simply want to help build first, there's the contributor program: contributions convert into SLN token incentives. No salary, and we never charge a fee.
12 questions — is there a presale, how to diligence, token economics, the risks, and what individuals can do today.
No. Testnet SLN has no value, we have never sold any token, and there is no private round, whitelist or allocation. Anyone collecting money in the name of an "official Solon presale" or "insider allocation" is a scammer — please report them to hi@solon.digital.
Email hi@solon.digital with subject prefix [INVEST] → NDA → data pack (deck, whitepaper, roadmap, on-chain entry points) → management meeting → technical and compliance diligence → term negotiation. Everything is self-verifiable; you don't have to "trust us" first.
Public entry points first: the status page (block production and availability), the explorer (on-chain transactions), the docs (contract addresses and parameters), the compliance ledger (PoR), governance records (multisig and proposals), the security center (audits and bounty), plus the whitepaper and roadmap. Commercial terms, team and financial material follow under NDA.
Not publicly disclosed yet. The SLN economic-model whitepaper ships with mainnet; until then we publish no supply, allocation or vesting figures — we'd rather say "not decided" than draw a picture we can't stand behind. Testnet SLN has no value whatsoever.
They're two different layers: equity sits with the operating entity (disclosed in the NDA data pack), while the token layer is SLN (governed after mainnet by the whitepaper and applicable law). The disclosed early investor is Chainfir Capital.
The disclosed early investor is Chainfir Capital. The team is built by global investment-banking institutions and Web3 engineering specialists, with core members from Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, Robinhood, HSBC and BlackRock. Third-party security audits complete before mainnet and the reports are published.
We promise no returns — any fixed-return promise on a crypto asset should itself raise your guard. SLN's value logic comes from network usage (fees, governance rights, ecosystem services), not from promised dividends. Judge it yourself after running the on-chain data.
Five, stated openly: ① Technology — a new chain; dual audits must clear before mainnet; ② Regulation — securities and stablecoin rules are still evolving; ③ Liquidity — secondary markets may be thin early; ④ Adoption — issuers and volume may fall short; ⑤ Centralization — today's testnet runs two PoA validators, expanding to a committee at mainnet.
V1 (mainnet): opens once the validator committee expansion, dual audits and penetration testing clear, with the SLN economic-model whitepaper published alongside. V2: broader bond / note / receivable asset standards and institutional node onboarding. Progress is tracked live on the roadmap and status page.
Three things: ① Try it at zero cost — claim test tokens, browse the chain, send a transaction using the docs; ② Apply to the contributor program (contributions convert into SLN incentives — no salary, no fees); ③ Watch for the compliant participation channels that open with mainnet and the whitepaper. There is no public token sale today.
The chain offers two venues: a limit order book (atomic DvP) and an AMM DEX. Whether you can exit depends on market depth and on the transfer restrictions of the product itself — compliant assets are typically constrained by whitelists and lock-ups. That is a regulatory requirement, not a threshold we invented. Terms are set in each issuance's documentation.
Four public entry points: the status page, the roadmap, governance proposals, and in-site announcements (the notification bell). You can also email hi@solon.digital to request periodic progress summaries.
12 questions — connecting, toolchain support, contracts and SDK, querying data, bounties and contributing.
RPC https://solon.digital/solonrpc/, chainId 51051 (0xC76B), symbol SLN, 1-second blocks (Clique PoA, final at production), gas 1 Gwei, EVM London. MetaMask can be added with the one-click button in the docs.
The standard EVM stack: MetaMask, ethers.js v6, web3.py and Hardhat all work as-is, and Solidity contracts deploy unchanged. One caveat: compile with EVM version set to london — the PUSH0 opcode from cancun is not supported on this chain yet.
Use the web faucet for one click, or call it programmatically: POST https://solon.digital/solon-faucet with body {"address":"0x…"}, which returns {"ok":true,"tx":"0x…"}. Limits: 10 SLN per address every 24 hours, max 5 addresses per IP per day. Testnet SLN has no value.
Eight are deployed and verified on-chain: IdentityRegistry, STT (compliant-security sample token), SolonProof (proof-of-reserve gating), DividendPool, LimitBook, SolonBridge, SolonOffering and GLD. Addresses and ABIs are in the contract registry and in assets/solon-contracts.js.
The compliance layer is a simplified ERC-3643 implementation: IdentityRegistry checks both sides of a transfer and reverts if either isn't registered; frozen addresses cannot transfer; court-ordered transfers can be executed by an authorized party; and nine gating conditions (insufficient reserves, expired proof, and so on) are enforced automatically by SolonProof. Reason codes are listed in the docs.
Two paths: ① No code — the issuance wizard, four transactions (deploy your own IdentityRegistry → deploy the token → register whitelist → mint); ② Programmatically — deploy with the ABIs and bytecode in assets/solon-contracts.js (solc 0.8.26, evmVersion=london). You become the owner and control whitelisting, minting and freezing yourself.
The SDK section has minimal examples for ethers v6 (JavaScript) and web3.py (Python): connect to RPC, read a block, send a transaction, read an STT balance. The faucet section has a cURL example. All of it is copy-paste runnable.
Full standard JSON-RPC (eth_* / net_*) is available, and frontends can read event logs directly. The explorer gives visual queries across transactions, addresses and contracts. For heavier analytics, subscribe to logs and build your own index — on-chain data is fully open, with no gate and no fee.
Contract ABIs and bytecode are public today (in the docs and assets/solon-contracts.js); the full open-source repository (docs + sample contracts + SDK) opens at stage P2 of the roadmap. Until then, the verification path is live testing: contracts are deployed, the status page is public, and the bounty program is on the table.
Email hi@solon.digital with subject prefix [SECURITY], including reproduction steps and a PoC. Bounties by severity: $50,000 critical / $20,000 high / $5,000 medium / $1,000 low, paid in USDT. We confirm receipt within one business day, the coordinated disclosure window runs up to 90 days, and rule-abiding research is not pursued. Details on the security page.
Yes — via the contributor program, across nine directions: contracts, validators, frontend, security, compliance research, industry research, translation, community and business development. Being upfront: there is no salary at this stage. Contributions convert into SLN token incentives, settled by SIP proposal after mainnet, and core contributors also get a governance seat.
Technical questions: the docs first. Chain anomalies: the status page. Security: the security page. Everything else: hi@solon.digital. The on-site AI assistant (bottom right) answers site questions instantly.