Solana Mobile began shipping its second-generation crypto phone, the Seeker, on August 4, 2025, marking the project’s most ambitious push yet to bring on-chain functionality into a mainstream handset. The company confirmed the rollout publicly to users in 50+ countries and preorders topping 150,000 units—orders that materially outpace the first-generation Saga’s production run.
“As soon as I started taking crypto seriously, my instinct was [that] there is a whole stack for secure elements and a trusted display embedded in these chips… developed… for making cryptographic signatures be as secure as a Ledger. So all this technology is available in your phone.”
He framed the aim as both user- and developer-centric: “There is an opportunity to make something better for users… and an opportunity to make something for developers, which is, you know, get rid of the 30% fees. You have a crypto-friendly app store.” He also called the smartphone “the tricorder from Star Trek,” underscoring its centrality to how people access the internet.
The Seed Vault keeps that seed phrase secure, but the wallet can be shared between applications.” Seeker refines what shipped on the Saga by making the confirmation flow feel “more like Apple Pay,” with secure prompts and trusted display for signing. Solana Mobile’s own materials similarly pitch the Seed Vault as the device’s core security boundary, now integrated with double-tap transactions and fingerprint entry.
On the developer and distribution side, Seeker ships with Solana dApp Store 2.0, a venue Solana Mobile positions as crypto-forward and free of the policy friction that has historically constrained web3 apps on mainstream stores. The device also introduces Seeker ID—a unified identity that ties a wallet address, a .skr username, and a Genesis Token to a user profile for smoother app onboarding and rewards. For developers, Solana markets this as proof-of-authenticity and a way to reach “high-value users.”
The commercial stakes are clear. Yakovenko said the project now sees a path from 150,000 preorders to one million devices—enough, in his view, to sustain a standalone mobile ecosystem—though he was candid that getting to 10 million remains an open challenge tackled “one step at a time.”
Yakovenko’s strategic endgame is unambiguous: “To disrupt the duopoly.” Not by fiat, but by introducing a credible alternative where on-chain signing, wallet UX, and distribution economics are native rather than bolted on. As he put it, “A single participant—even a small one—can change the market equilibrium.”
At press time, SOL traded at $169.
