A vault, not a vendor.
SolanaVault is the work of a small team that has run Solana validators, paid the archive-node bill, and decided to fix the economics. We built the network we wished existed when we were on the other side of the invoice.
Why we are building this
Solana produces more state than any other public chain that matters. Block payloads are dense, account writes are frequent, and historical data is non-optional for any serious app — indexers, explorers, analytics, MEV defense, governance archives. Yet the way most teams access that data still routes through a handful of centralized providers, each charging per query, each able to deplatform you on a Tuesday.
We thought the answer was a better RPC vendor. Then we measured the compression headroom on real mainnet blocks and changed our minds. 15-25x reduction is not marketing. It is what comes out of vault-cli compress-demo on slot 244000000 today. Once that ratio is in your pipeline, the economics of storage flip — and you can finally pay storage operators directly instead of paying for someone's marketing department.
What we believe
- Data integrity is not negotiable. Every block served carries a hash. Every reply is checked. Liars get slashed.
- APIs should be boring. If your code talks to mainnet-beta today, it should talk to SolanaVault tomorrow without a single import change.
- Decentralization should be operational, not aspirational. Discovery is on Kademlia. Transport is on NNG. Consensus is Byzantine. No federation, no allowlist.
- Open source means open source. MIT / Apache-2.0 dual license, no contributor license that pretends otherwise.
The shape of the team
We are a distributed team across three time zones with backgrounds in storage engines, validator operations, and protocol design. We previously shipped production systems at exchanges, custodians, and one Solana validator that you have probably staked with. We are funded by a single seed round from a fund that uses the network we built. That is the disclosure.
What is on the roadmap
- Geyser plugin parity so Vault gateways can serve real-time streams, not just historical reads.
- Light-client checkpoint snapshots on a 100-slot cadence with Merkle-anchored attestation.
- A native Anchor IDL cache so downstream tooling does not have to refetch program IDLs.
- An indexer SDK that uses SolanaVault as cold storage with Redis-backed hot indices.
- EVM compatibility experiments via the Neon EVM frame, mostly to test the compression generality.
Talking to us
We answer email at hello@cryptuon.com, take security reports at security@cryptuon.com, and triage feature requests on GitHub issues. We do not have a sales team in the usual sense. The Slack channel for Scale customers is staffed by the people who wrote the consensus code.