🚀 Enterprise-level blockchain alliance R3 establishes strategic cooperation with Solana Foundation

In May 2025, the world-leading enterprise-level blockchain software company R3 officially announced a strategic cooperation with the Solana Foundation, aimed at bringing regulated traditional financial institutions and their tokenized real-world assets (RWA) onto the high-performance public chain of Solana. This cooperation marks the first deep integration of enterprise-grade permissioned chains with public blockchains, opening a new channel to public blockchains for on-chain assets valued at over $10 billion. R3's Corda platform has been adopted by more than 300 major financial institutions globally, including HSBC and Bank of America. This collaboration will enable institutions within its ecosystem to directly leverage Solana's high throughput, low latency, and low-cost advantages.

🔗 Technical Integration and Phased Roadmap

· Phase One: Develop a cross-chain protocol connecting Corda and the Solana network to achieve direct confirmation of R3 private chain transactions on the Solana public chain.

· Phase Two: Build enterprise-level permissioned consensus services on Solana's Layer-1 network, allowing regulated financial institutions to access public blockchain infrastructure while maintaining compliance standards.

🏛️ Strategic Background and Institutional Validation

As a leader in the blockchain space for traditional finance, R3's Corda platform is designed specifically for financial institutions, emphasizing transaction privacy and compliance. This cooperation is based on R3's technical assessment of multiple public chains, ultimately choosing Solana for its historical state compression, high scalability, and increasingly mature institutional validator ecosystem. The collaboration also includes Solana Foundation Chair Lily Liu joining R3's board, and may involve undisclosed strategic investments, marking a relationship that transcends ordinary technical cooperation.