Andres OY

The Solana Foundation has revealed it has secured Mastercard, Worldpay, and Western Union as early users of its newly launched developer platform, as part of ongoing efforts to attract enterprises to build on its blockchain.
The Solana Developer Platform (SDP) was announced on Tuesday to enable enterprise developers to build on the blockchain using a unified interface.
Much of the focus is on real-world asset tokenization, including stablecoins, which is currently a $328 billion market. More than half of the total value is held on Ethereum however, with Solana holding 6.3% share of the tokenized real-world asset market.
"The early interest we’ve seen from enterprises and institutions signals strong demand," said Catherine Gu, the head of product at the Solana Foundation.
The SDP will initially have three core modules: an issuance module to deploy tokenized real-world assets, a payments module to facilitate fiat and stablecoin flows, and a trading module due later this year that will support atomic swaps, vaults, and onchain forex.
Early users of the SDP include Mastercard for stablecoin settlement, Worldpay for merchant payments and settlement, and Western Union for cross-border payments, said the Solana Foundation. $SOL
Solana's efforts to attract institutions
Solana invested in making the network enterprise-ready on a technical level with the Alpenglow upgrade in 2025, boosting transaction throughput. Meanwhile, in December, Visa launched (USDC) settlement for US banks on the Solana blockchain.
"The next phase of digital asset innovation will be defined by practical use cases that integrate seamlessly with existing financial systems," said Raj Dhamodharan, executive vice president, blockchain and digital assets, at Mastercard.
Meanwhile, Malcolm Clarke, vice president of digital assets at Western Union, said the SDP is "not a replacement for our network," but allows it to expand use cases and bring more cross-border activity.
Solana enters a crowded enterprise blockchain space
Enterprise-grade blockchain solutions are not new, and Solana’s latest platform enters a crowded market.
The Ethereum ecosystem has several strong offerings targeting the same enterprise audience, including Consensys’ Infura, a scalable API infrastructure powering thousands of decentralized applications.
Consensys also has the $LINEA layer-2, which is positioning itself as an institutional on-ramp to crypto.
Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 platform Base has modular components for checkout, APIs, and commerce payments that directly compete with SDP's payments module.
Meanwhile, Ripple’s blockchain offerings, such as $XRP Ledger, also primarily target enterprise and financial institutions, as it aims to become the standard for cross-border payments.
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Tether mengatakan bahwa mereka sedang bergerak menuju audit keuangan penuh pertama mereka dan telah menyewa sebuah firma akuntansi Big Four untuk memeriksa cadangan di balik stablecoin $USDT mereka, yang merupakan yang terbesar di antara token yang dipatok terhadap fiat.
Perusahaan mengatakan bahwa mereka telah secara resmi melibatkan auditor terkemuka untuk menyelesaikan tinjauan komprehensif terhadap laporan keuangan mereka, menandai pergeseran dari penegasan kuartalan yang telah mendefinisikan upaya transparansi mereka hingga saat ini.
"Firma Big Four dipilih melalui proses kompetitif karena organisasi tersebut sudah beroperasi dengan standar audit Big Four," kata Simon McWilliams, CFO Tether. "Audit akan disampaikan," tambahnya.