We're building your best friend on Solana.
Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, has 25 million funded accounts — less than 0.3% of the global population. Every major crypto app services that same tiny sliver: speculative and risk-loving. The other 99.7% have been ignored.
If Seeker succeeds it will need to service the 99.7% -- the 99.7% who don't want to gamble. They want to build wealth slowly and steadily instead of gambling with memecoins. But there is no such app that serves them today.
We are building precisely for this group. Internally, we call this "your best friend on Solana". What does it mean to be your best friend? It means something that has your true best interests at heart. We believe that most users are best served by holding good assets for the long term, and so we build Sanctum from the ground up to encourage people to hold, not trade.
You can see a bunch of the counterintuitive design decisions we made in the deep dives, but here I want to highlight three:
Daily rewards. To build the habit of holding good assets, we built custom infrastructure to distribute daily SOL yields to all Sanctum users. The feeling of seeing your rewards grow every day, is addictive and many users have commented as such.
Why did we do it this way? In investing, the best move is often to do nothing; so, we aim to make doing nothing just as exciting as trading.
Albus, your cloud companion. We designed Albus to be your friendly companion in your investment journey. As you invest, you grow a companion that evolves over time.
Learning as first-class citizen. We expect that the 99.7% of users will be curious about crypto but may not yet have a mental model for long-term value investing or understand the power of compounding. As such, we are heavily focused on user education. The built-in Library teaches users the principles behind building wealth patiently. We want our users to leave Sanctum better and more informed than when they arrived.
Why Seeker First
Why launch on Seeker first?
When I bought a Seeker, I was making a statement. I am a big Solana maxi, and I am fully bought into the vision. But when I set the phone up and claimed my Genesis token, I was faced with a blank screen. What should I do next? What can I do on the Seeker that I can't do anywhere else? That wasn't clear to me.
If Seeker succeeds, it will disrupt the duopoly and onboard a billion new users onto Solana. But.. who's getting them to come to Seeker? And who will serve these users? We want Sanctum to be the canonical entry point for anyone who's just bought a Seeker, and to make it so compelling that people will buy a Seeker because of Sanctum.
In gratitude to the Seeker community and as a signal of our commitment, everything is being built for Seeker users first, with a full campaign designed exclusively for the Seeker community.
Seeker Season gives Seeker users the earliest access to Sanctum App and the chance to unlock cosmetics and companion items for Albus that are time-limited and will never be available again.
Our aim for the Seeker Season is to introduce users to the joy of holding SOL. But in the long term, Sanctum will grow into a wealth app where users discover and hold quality assets for the long term — SOL first, then USDC, BTC, and over time a very curated set of good assets.
Sanctum has been building positive-sum products on Solana for five years. We have over $1 billion in assets secured and hundreds of thousands of users who trust us to manage their SOL. And in 2024, we ran Wonderland, one of the most celebrated user campaigns in Solana's history. It took the ecosystem by storm, bringing a wave of new users into LSTs and into Solana for the first time.
We have deep trust from our ability to safeguard capital, and deep love from our ability to build delightful experiences. With this app, Sanctum brings both together: the security and reliability of a $1B protocol paired with the craft that made Wonderland a landmark moment for the ecosystem. We hope you'll enjoy the experience!