Introducing Gateway: Air Traffic Control For Landing Transactions
July came with many highlights, but none more impactful for the future of Sanctum than the introduction of Gateway.
Visit Gateway: https://gateway.sanctum.so/
Gateway is our new flagship product that acts as air traffic control for landing transactions on Solana, especially during high-traffic network spikes that make applications less delightful for users.
Complete with a comprehensive dashboard (think of this as a transaction control center), Gateway offers Solana developers enhanced observability (monitor exactly where transactions are in real time), improved landing rates, complete optimization and delivery control, and real-time debugging, all without enduring the tedious complexities of changing code.
Gateway delivers the edge required to succeed at scale. It’s built for:
- Protocols that need reliable transaction inclusion during peak hours
- Teams optimizing fee efficiency without manual tuning
- Developers seeking production-grade observability
- Any Solana project that relies on precision and uptime
If your product depends on getting transactions through the network, Gateway gets you there smarter and faster.
Sanctum Acquires Ironforge
To make Gateway possible, we acquired Ironforge, one of the most trusted infrastructure providers in the Solana ecosystem.
Ironforge has quietly operated one of the most reliable transaction infrastructure layers on Solana. At its peak, it was handling up to one-third of all transaction volume, playing a vital role in keeping the chain running smoothly.
Now, Ironforge's powerhouse engineers have joined us at Sanctum, bringing years of backend and infrastructure expertise. Together, they’ve made the Sanctum engineering team stronger than it’s ever been.
→ Blockworks: Sanctum acquires Ironforge, plots transaction infrastructure vertical
“It’s been a crazy few months, but the cat is finally out of the bag! Sanctum has grown by leaps and bounds in the past 12 months, growing from barely 1M SOL to over 12m SOL in TVL. Without incentives, our market share has kept growing as we’ve established profitability. With the acquisition, we have expanded our tools to continue to grow in the staking-as-a-service industry. But our ambitions are bigger. For Sanctum to make the next step forward, we need to make big bets and enter new albeit connected verticals and we couldn’t ask for a better team to help us.” - Jaye
CLOUD Holder Relations & Blockworks Victory
As a part of our reignited focus on CLOUD, we achieved two token milestones in July: launching the first edition of Sanctum Quarterly and completing our filing to the Blockworks Token Transparency Framework.
Sanctum Quarterly
Sanctum Quarterly sets a new transparency benchmark, offering a behind-the-scenes view of Sanctum's progress during Q2 2025, including company financials, protocol growth, product updates and performance, and the state of CLOUD.
Inspired by TradFi quarterly reports, we hope to inspire increased confidence in Sanctum while challenging other teams to publish similar reports. The more transparent our industry is, the safer our users can be!
Read it here - https://docsend.com/view/puyk2ytc9riqjzc3
Acing Blockworks Token Transparency
CLOUD became one of only two tokens (shoutout to our friends at MetaDAO for being the second) to achieve a perfect 40/40 score on the Blockworks Token Transparency Framework.
Holding CLOUD means you’re part of a crypto project, ecosystem, and community that refuses to play dirty games—no equity siphoning, no off-market deals, no bots or manufactured hype. While most tokens are vehicles for speculation, CLOUD is a vehicle for conviction that crypto can be something better.
Review Our Filing - https://blockworks.co/token-transparency
2 Big Ones
July saw Sanctum cross the $2B in TVL mark for the first time, placing us as one of only four Solana protocols currently above the checkpoint.
Since the announcement, we've gained an additional $280M+ in TVL.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us along the journey to reach this point. We couldn't do it without the Cloudfam.
We ☁️ You!