Solana Labs has around 10 people working on her Saga mobile
Solana Labs is dedicating a large portion of its team to building its mobile project, according to an exclusive interview with the company's communications manager.
Solana Labs is dedicating a large portion of its team to building its mobile project, according to an exclusive interview with the company's communications manager.
Solana Labs has "about" 10 people working on its Solana Mobile Stack (SMS) initiative, according to Austin Federa. The company, which develops the Solana blockchain , had 71 full-time employees as of April, Fortune reports.
Communications manager refused to disclose SMS capital spending.
Last week Solana said he was planning to unveil a mobile phone called Saga, featuring unique hardware and software, which would make it easier for users to access the web3. "It's time for cryptocurrency to go mobile," the company wrote on its website. Currently, most web3 applications are accessible via desktop.
A great undertaking
Getting cryptocurrency to go mobile is a huge undertaking from a security and user experience standpoint that others have attempted to tackle in the past. Some notable examples that have not been successful are Sirin Labs' Finney phone, PundiX's Xphone, and HTC's Exodus. Last year Samsung added support for hardware wallets.
To make a comparison with the SMS effort, Sirin Labs had nine people on its executive team, according to Craft.co.
A very small team if you consider that other established companies such as Biticodes use larger development teams to offer modern and cutting-edge services. Check out the official website to find out more.
The communications manager added that Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko had wanted to bring Solana to mobile phone users for a long time, but serious conversations began in January.
OSOM partnership
To carry out the ambitious plan, the blockchain developer has partnered with OSOM, a smartphone maker founded by former iPad architecture chief Jason Keats. Solana would not have attempted to launch the Saga without Keats' experience, Federa said.
Solana's phone will use a modified version of Google's operating system. The Saga will have the entire Google Mobile Suite, which means that the phone will be equipped with the Google Play Store and a series of APIs developed by Google for Android.
Also, most important for its focus on cryptocurrencies, the phone will be equipped with a key-keeping mechanism. It will also be preloaded with the Solana dApp Store, Solana Pay for Android and the so-called Mobile Wallet Adapter, which connects wallets and apps and allows you to sign transactions.
Other phone manufacturers will be able to integrate Solana's code, which is open-source.
Security of private keys
Saga plans to store users' private keys in the same component where biometric data such as fingerprints are stored. According to Federa, Solana will not have access to this information.
Federa said the security isn't as robust as that of a hardware wallet, but that Saga's architecture is more secure than a software wallet.
SMS is a big bet and Solana knows it.
"The strategy is exactly the same that Solana Labs has always approached the issue with, which is to make big bets and build reference implementations that give developers the tools to build what they need on top of the platform," Federa said.
With the phone scheduled for early 2023, there are still a few months left before the bet can be realized.
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