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🗓️ 11 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | What we've seen with Seeker is people are downloading apps. They're spending a ton of money. We've had over $2 billion in assets flow through Seekers in the first four months since we launched it. So for developers, it's great. They get to launch products. They have a really hardcore user base and they can actually make money. Our users are downloading everything. You know, when you look at iPhones and Android devices, most people |
| 0:21.0 | download like one app a quarter. For us, it's like an app a day. |
| 0:28.6 | Emmett Hollier joins us at the desk. Emmett, you are Solana Mobile's GM. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:36.6 | Thanks for having me. Good to be here. All right. Let's talk about Solana Mobile's GM. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Good to be here. |
| 0:37.7 | All right. Let's talk about Solana Mobile. Sure. Okay. I remember when the first device came out |
| 0:44.8 | and I remember thinking like how is this going to work. Do I have to carry that and my phone? |
| 0:50.5 | I'm not really sure. I'm one of those users who really has to be sold. Then everybody kind of like bought into it. Now you've iterated on that for a new device. But just take us back to the basics for people who are watching. Most people I get in the Western world, you know, have an Apple or a Samsung device. What's the value prop for Salon's mobile device? |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, I think if you look at all the innovation happening in crypto, |
| 1:15.6 | there's like one major gap, which is mobile. |
| 1:19.6 | The truth is, for people who just want to buy some tokens on Coinbase or on Binance, it works, right? |
| 1:25.6 | If you want to buy a little Bitcoin, buy a little Ethereum, |
| 1:27.8 | buy a little soul, you can do that. But the moment you want to step into where all the interesting stuff is happening, D-PIN, gaming, all of it, you are totally blocked. There's no real secure way to self-custody your assets on a phone, and you don't get access to anything native. You have to relying weird weird kind of web workarounds, where you launch a browser within another app, just to access websites. And so we said that's the problem. If crypto is going to continue to grow and innovation is going to continue to grow, there needs to be native solutions, there needs to be a secure way for customers to hold assets on a phone, And that's what we've been setting out to solve. |
| 2:06.0 | We started with Saga. That was a great learning experience. We sold about 20,000 of those devices. |
| 2:10.0 | But earlier this year, we launched Seeker, which we've now sold 150,000 of. |
| 2:15.6 | So going back to your point about the development of crypto apps that are mobile first or mobile ready, |
| 2:18.6 | they're still at the mercy of the gatekeepers, i.e. Google Play Store and the Apple store. So why is Seeker and or just Salonamobile more generally, |
| 2:25.2 | sort of the big breakthrough moment for applications who are trying to get past those workarounds? |
| 2:31.4 | Yeah, so one of the core products that we ship with Seeker and shipped with Saga |
| 2:35.8 | is the Salon Adap Store. |
| 2:37.8 | The Salon Adap Store is the place to access all of the great native Salonah First mobile |
| 2:42.9 | applications, because without our store, there's not really a great place to get that, right? |
| 2:46.6 | You're sort of dependent on remembering which websites to go to, or maybe there's a few |
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