Our Origin, Goals, and Values

Most of Solana's $1B/year REV goes to validators, while stakers earn mostly inflation. We believe that SOL stakers should benefit from Solana's success.

We aren't here to play games with economics, to raise funds from investors, or to launch a token. We're here to make a simple, but impactful upgrade to Solana staking, giving SOL holders the ability to align their capital with the growth of the network's usage. 

Our Values

⭐️ Usefulness: Build a great product, on a useful primitive.

⭐️ Alignment: Benefit not only our users, but all of Solana.

⭐️ Leadership: Guide the staking economy to a better place.

Our Goals

🎯 Unlock real economic value (REV) for Solana's stakers.

🎯 Create differentiation for staking yield.

🎯 Attract new types of yield investors to Solana.

🥦 Committed to Organic Growth

“It's not enough to just have a good product.” This seems to be widely accepted in today's crypto industry. Is organic growth really dead? We say: NO! In a world of points programs, advisor shares, and paid KOLs, we zoom out and ask: if a product's growth is driven by financial incentives, is it really worth anything to begin with?

In DeFi's early days, it was enough to create a useful primitive. A project's KOLs were its users, friends, and fans. RevTec is an experiment: Can we "make it", while rejecting points, fundraise-maxing, paid KOLs, and greedy "angels"? We say YES. We believe that our primitive is useful enough to stand on its own, and grow organically.

If you are excited about RevTec, you're part of its growth journey. Will you help spread the word, even if you're not getting paid to? Tell two friends about us, and let's upgrade Solana's staking economy, together.

🥾 Fully Bootstrapped

We are NOT raising funds or launching a token. We're sustainably boostrapped, using revenue from validator H2O Nodes to fund our development. Our only goal is to build a great product, loved by users, which improves Solana's economics for stakers. Our founders spent the last three years building H2O Nodes from nothing. They never raised funding, not because they couldn't, but because they didn't want it. Now, with resources to invest, it's time to build.

We look up to bootstrapped projects like Marinade Finance. They've experienced huge growth by prioritizing their community and aligning with Solana. We'll do the same. No investors, no token. Just a great product, and intelligent users. 

🌐 Our Hackathon Origins

RevTec has its origins in the Colosseum Breakout hackathon. A two-week sprint to kickstart the project. Constructing the team, building an MVP, polishing the pitch. All with a submission deadline in sight. But the end was just the beginning. We won an "honorable mention", and VCs, angels, and curious users came out of the woodwork. A two week old project getting this kind of attention is only possible with a hackathon like Colosseum. 

But, we quickly learned that, while it’s true that "you can just do things", there are real limitations to "doing it yourself". Specifically, writing smart contracts. As warm and fuzzy as our origin story is, you probably wouldn't want to use our product if the contracts weren't written by seasoned professionals. 

Enter SolBound and 4pto Labs. Experienced Solana builders ready to take ideas and turn them into on-chain realities. In no time, our contracts were written, tested, and ready for audits.