Foundational Researchfor Onchain Capital Markets

The Solana Research Institute (SRI) is an applied research forum dedicated to the participation of financial institutions in blockchain-based financial systems. We provide a systematic analysis of onchain infrastructure, evaluating the transition from legacy frameworks to high-performance capital markets.

Our work establishes technical and strategic frameworks across the full lifecycle of financial activity - from origination and execution to governance and risk management - to identify the trends, opportunities, and constraints defining the next generation of market infrastructure.

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Report23 Jul 2026

Regulating Permissionless Blockchain: An Open Letter to the FCA (And Other Regulators)

Permissionless blockchain protocols combine open access, composability, rules-based governance, and comprehensive transparency at scale. In an open letter to the FCA, the Solana Research Institute sets out how financial regulation across seven domains can be adapted to what these systems are, rather than forcing them into the institutional forms of traditional finance.

Blog Post14 Jul 2026

Integrating Digital Assets into Core Treasury Operations: A Roundtable Recap

As major payment networks move stablecoins onto public blockchain rails, the question facing treasury and payments teams is no longer whether this infrastructure is real — it is what it takes to build it into core operations. Senior practitioners from across the institutional financial ecosystem spent two hours working through exactly that at the SRI's invitation-only roundtable in London in June 2026.

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