Solana's CPO Wants to Make It "The Chain for AI"

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  May 13, 2026 at 13:01  |  7:53  |  CoinDesk
Speakers
Vibu Norby — Chief Product Officer, Solana Foundation

Summary

Vibhu Norby, CPO of Solana Foundation, discusses Solana's dominant position in agentic crypto transactions and its vision to become the chain for AI. He highlights institutional adoption, rapid RWA growth, and new products like Pay.sh with Google, while noting that AI agents are driving a fundamental shift in blockchain usage.

  • Solana has 65% market share of agentic crypto transactions.
  • Over 15 million agent-driven payments have been processed on Solana.
  • State Street announced a tokenized fund on Solana.
  • Meta is using Solana-based stablecoins for creator payouts in Colombia and the Philippines.
  • Google and Solana launched Pay.sh to enable stablecoin payments for AI inference and cloud infrastructure.
  • Solana's on-chain RWAs have grown 1000% since January last year.
  • Institutions including JP Morgan, Visa, and Western Union are developing on Solana.
  • Vibhu's personal trading bot 'Milo' executes hundreds of trades per week on Solana DeFi and memecoins.
Trade Ideas
Vibu Norby Chief Product Officer, Solana Foundation 3:52
Solana is the leading AI agent chain.
Solana is positioned to become the leading blockchain for the AI and agentic economy. It already processes 65% of all agentic crypto transactions, has seen 1000% growth in on-chain RWAs since January last year, and is attracting major institutional adoption (State Street tokenized fund, Meta stablecoin payouts, Visa, Western Union, JP Morgan). The launch of Pay.sh with Google further solidifies Solana's role in agent-to-agent and software-based payments. This thesis is supported by growing developer interest and the network's scalability (thousands of TPS), making Solana the default chain for AI agents.
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Speakers: Vibu Norby  · Tickers: SOL