Solana Mobile said Wednesday that Helius and Jito are now live as the first independent Guardians of the Solana dApp Store, the app store built into the Seeker phone. They review every new app and every update alongside Solana Mobile, and each vote is written to Solana where anyone can check it (Solana Mobile). SOL trades at $84.86, up 1.9% in 24 hours (CoinGecko).
How app review changes
Until now, Solana Mobile reviewed every submission itself (Crypto Briefing). Under the new setup, each Guardian runs automated checks on a submission for malicious code and for compliance with the store's review policy, then casts its vote onchain at the program address GUARDsVUfAaydbPU6QGcpWRLUkExaULtaygwEtkdhZAD. Each vote records which version of the policy it used and what the checks found. If enough Guardians agree, the release moves through approval.
To join, a Guardian posts a bond of 250,000 SKR, the Solana Mobile ecosystem token, and earns SKR for its review work (Solana Mobile). At today's SKR price of about $0.011, that bond is worth roughly $2,750 per Guardian (CoinGecko), so for now the bigger stake is reputation: Helius and Jito run some of Solana's most used infrastructure, and their votes are public.
For Seeker owners, nothing changes in how apps are found or installed. Developers still submit through the same publishing portal, and apps already in the store stay listed, with future updates going through Guardians. Solana Mobile is clear that Guardian review "is not a guarantee that an app is safe or free of defects."
Why it matters beyond one phone
Anza, DoubleZero and Triton One plan to join as the next Guardians. Spreading review across independent operators is what lets the store reach devices Solana Mobile doesn't build (Crypto Briefing). The first of those is Ledger Atom, which Ledger plans to ship in summer 2027 with the Seeker app and dApp Store preinstalled. Solana Mobile says Seeker has handled more than $13 billion in transaction volume, 154 million transactions and over 1,500 apps (Solana Mobile).
App stores are one of the few chokepoints in crypto that most users never see. Apple and Google can pull a wallet or a DeFi app with no public record. A store where named operators put up a bond and vote in the open is a different model, and it's being tested on Solana first. It's also the second Helius launch in two days, after Privacy Rings went live on Tuesday.
Also on Wednesday
Grayscale's Solana staking ETF filed its quarterly report, disclosing 1,821,062.63 SOL held on Sept. 30 and $5.56 million in staking income over the first nine months of 2026. The fund received about 19,955 SOL in rewards during the third quarter (SEC filing). Spot SOL ETF flows are on our ETF Tracker, and today's market moves are on the Dashboard.
What to watch
- Coming weeks: when Anza, DoubleZero and Triton One start voting, and whether Guardians reject any apps in public.
- Fri, Nov 13: U.S. producer prices (PPI).
- Nov 15 to 17: Breakpoint London.
Why it matters for SOL: Solana's consumer push depends on people trusting the apps on their phones. Making the gatekeepers public and accountable is a step toward that.
Prices as of ~4:05 PM ET on Nov 11, 2026.
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