Solana Foundation - Head of Institutional Growth, Europe
Joined November 2025
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Ben Brophy retweeted
Excited to be back for my 4th @solana Breakpoint
I'll be interviewing Martin Gilbert, Chair of @Revolut
What questions do you want me to ask him?
He built one global financial institution. Now he chairs another.
Martin Gilbert, Chair of @Revolut, built Aberdeen Asset Management into one of the world’s largest fund managers and now chairs the most valuable fintech on the planet. Hear from him at Breakpoint, November 15-17.
Ben Brophy retweeted
Four weeks until the lights drop at Olympia. @Yo_Brilly built the Breakpoint 2026 opening visual experience
“The minute that animation starts, I want silence. Then I want to drop it on them. I want to blow them away.”
Ben Brophy retweeted
What a Day 1 in Shanghai.
From visiting the new office to seeing Solana light up the Shanghai skyline.
Quite a way to kick off the week!
Incredible energy from the community here.
Ben Brophy retweeted
"There are 29 global systemically important banks. There are seven currently building on Solana. I'd like to think that number is close to double that by this time next year, putting us at about 50% of all GSIBs building on Solana."
– @nickducoff, Head of Institutional Growth
Ben Brophy retweeted
Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation, on the largest capital market in the world
"The internet capital market is going to be the largest global capital market. It might take a decade, but it is the absolute direction of travel."
"Look at Southeast Asia. Many countries, all on separate currencies. You don't solve fragmentation with more fragmentation. You need unified, neutral financial infrastructure, and that's why Solana is designed the way it is. On every timeframe, Solana has been the most used network, more than the rest of the industry combined."
@SolanaFndn @calilyliu
Ben Brophy retweeted
We’ve raised a $90M Series B led by @NEA to make cash earn for everyone, around the clock.
$50T of cash in Europe and the US earns next to nothing. Every point of missed yield costs $500B a year.
10,000+ users now hold nearly $3B in Spiko funds, up 15%+ a month.
Next: interest accrual in real time and treasury on autopilot.
As first reported by @business:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The full story on our blog:
spiko.io/blog/weve-raised-90…
Ben Brophy retweeted
agentic wealth management on solana 👀
Ben Brophy retweeted
I’ve joined @SolanaFndn as Chief Strategy Officer. What excites me is Solana’s position to bring Internet Capital Markets to life: connecting assets, trading and payments on one global network, open to anyone, around the clock.
You can already see it happening: $200M in tokenised equities traded in a single day, with roughly 63% outside US market hours.
My focus is helping drive the next phase of growth, bringing more institutions, enterprises, builders and users into that opportunity.
Thank you to @calilyliu and the team for the warm welcome. Excited to get going. 💜
coindesk.com/business/2026/0…
Ben Brophy retweeted
"What we're starting to see now is the merging of the DeFi world and the TradFi world," - Annabel Spring, CEO AllFunds
She is guiding Allfunds through this convergence, leveraging a network of over 3,300 financial institutions and asset managers alongside more than €1.9 trillion in AUA.
Ben Brophy retweeted
Most used chain in every time frame for years now
Depending on how the wins blow, CT will tell you that low fees are good or bad, beautiful or ugly.
Wrong question to ask
If your goal is to be neutral global financial infrastructure for the internet, can you imagine debating whether $0.50 cent transactions are acceptable. Ask yourself who at scale wants to pay that much to move money when they don’t have to
If your goal is to be the best at fintech 3.0 then congratulate yourself on margin capture
Right question is - are you building the financial infrastructure for the internet or are you building fintech 3.0
Are you competing for 5.5B internet users or are you aiming to be the next PayPal.
Nothing wrong with the latter. It’s just a different game.
Ben Brophy retweeted
One of the world's largest banks on where Solana fits:
"Solana's particular niche is ultra low cost, ultra fast. That opens up things like micropayments, particularly as we move towards agentic AI."
– Geoff Kendrick, Global Head of Digital Assets Research, @StanChart
