Sablier Launches on Solana

Secure lockups and scalable airdrops, wherever your users are.

Maxime Desalle

• 4 min read
Sablier Launches on Solana

TL;DR

  • What’s live today: Linear Vesting and Instant Airdrops on Solana.
  • How we’re launching: Dedicated Solana interface at solana.sablier.com, while app.sablier.com continues to serve EVM users.
  • Security first: Fully audited and extensively tested. Sablier has never been hacked in over six years of powering vesting for EVM protocols like Uniswap DAO, Immutable, and ShapeShift.
  • Pricing: Same as EVM deployments — $1 withdrawal fee, $2 claim fee, charged in SOL alongside gas (fees can also be sponsored by the sender - fill out this form if you are interested)

Call to action: Teams and builders planning vesting or airdrops on Solana → reach out.

Introduction

We live in a multi-chain world. Treasuries, vesting schedules, and community distributions stretch across ecosystems, and the tools need to follow. Whether a project is Ethereum-native, Solana-native, or anywhere in between, token distribution should just work.

That wasn’t the case so far on Solana. Today, we’re changing that.

Why Solana?

A lot of this started with requests from Solana builders. Teams wanted the same vesting and airdrop tools they already trust and love on EVM, but on Solana. The reality was, the choices weren’t great: building custom contracts (expensive and risky) or using half-baked products with bad UX and questionable security.

Solana itself is a great fit. Fast finality and low fees make it perfect for things like large-scale airdrops, ecosystem incentives, and community rewards, meaning use cases where thousands or even millions of recipients might claim at once.That’s why we’re starting here.

With linear vesting and instant airdrops, we’re covering the essentials first. More will come later once we’ve had the chance to see how the community uses Sablier on Solana.

What’s Launching Today

We will first be launching a limited release of Lockup, our vesting protocol, and Instant Airdrops. More vesting curves for Lockup, vested airdrops, CSV support and Flow (open-ended streams) will come later on based on user feedback.

As of now, Sablier on Solana supports five vesting curves: Linear, Cliff, Timelock, Unlock Linear and Unlock Cliff. These cover the core needs for team and investor vesting, grant programs, cliff schedules, and timelocked allocations.

Pricing

No subscription fees and no outrageous registration fees, we’re keeping things simple: the same model we use on EVM. Every withdrawal costs $1, every claim costs $2. Both are charged in SOL alongside the network fee. Fees can also be covered by the sender if they choose. Network fees include rent fees, as well as Metaplex-related fees, which we are using to power the stream NFTs.

If you’re planning a large-scale airdrop, reach out. We’re happy to discuss personalized pricing.

Product

Your Ethereum and EVM streams stay on app.sablier.com. To manage vesting or airdrop campaigns visit solana.sablier.com, or use the ecosystem toggle in the top-right corner.

Security

Security has always been our core priority at Sablier. In over six years of powering vesting and distributions for protocols like Uniswap DAO, Immutable, ShapeShift, and Venice AI, with hundreds of thousands of total users, the Sablier protocol has never been hacked.

For Solana, we’re applying the same level of care:

  • Bug bounty: up to $100K, see this
  • Audits: conducted with Cantina.
  • Source-available: our codebase is open for anyone to review.
  • Extensive testing: comprehensive test suite to back our programs.

Sablier’s track record speaks for itself, and we intend to keep it that way.

License

Just like our EVM deployments, our Solana programs are licensed under the Business Source License (BUSL 1.1). Think of it as a time-delayed GPL: for the first four years until 2029-10-01, commercial production use of the source code is restricted. After that, it automatically transitions into GPL v3.0-or-later indefinitely.

This approach protects the work we’ve put into building Sablier on Solana (nearly a year of engineering), while still guaranteeing that the code becomes fully open source over time.

Importantly, the BUSL license does not affect integrations. All code needed for external integrations—interfaces, data types, and more, is licensed under GPL. That means any protocol, web interface, mobile app, or other project can integrate with Sablier seamlessly.

If you require a BUSL exemption, please reach out here

FAQ

Are you abandoning EVM? No, not at all. This is an expansion to help us better serve our users. We have several projects in the pipeline coming in the medium-term to EVM land!

Why not only build on Ethereum? Teams are multi-chain, we meet users where they are.

How secure is Sablier? Our codebase has been extensively audited, tested, is source-available, and we offer up to $100K in bounties for vulnerabilities. We’ve never had a vulnerability in six years while having users like Uniswap DAO and Axie Infinity. We intend to keep it that way.

What’s your pricing? $1 withdrawal fee, $2 claim fee. Both are charged in SOL alongside the network fees (i.e. transaction fee and rent fee). The fees we charge can also be covered by the sender if they choose. Reach out if you’re organizing a large-scale airdrop.