Solana Breakpoint 2025: Here’s What to Expect

Solana’s flagship conference is right around the corner, and this year’s Abu Dhabi event is slated to be the biggest Breakpoint ever. 

Yes, we say that every year, but a lot has changed since September 2024. Solana DeFi is enjoying higher activity than ever, tokenization is bringing billions in RWAs onchain, and DePIN is reaching critical mass and taking blockchain beyond the crypto bubble.

If that wasn’t enough, Solana staking ETFs are trading on Wall Street. “Institutions are coming” has become more than a meme; they’re already here.

Here’s what to expect from Solana Breakpoint 2025.

Breakpoint 2025’s Twin Pillars: Revenue & Returns

Breakpoint is the biggest event on Solana’s crypto calendar, bringing all the network’s founders, builders, investors, and enjoyooors together to sync on what’s shipping now, and what’s coming next.

Attendees can expect a slew of product keynotes and meta-shifting announcements from the biggest players shaping the Solana economy. Between the headlines, industry experts will crystallize their thoughts in interviews and fireside chats, while thought leaders and teams go toe-to-toe in fiery, contrarian debates.

The Breakpoint agenda is centered around two key focus points: Revenue & Returns. 

Revenue - Gone are the days of “a whitepaper and a dream” and philosophical governance tokens that don’t create any meaningful value. As in the real business world, success is measured by revenue. 

As the home of Internet Capital Markets, Solana has dominated app revenue across the crypto industry. Many of crypto’s most successful and most valuable onchain businesses call Solana home, owing both to the chain’s hyper-performant capabilities and its deeply-engaged user base.

Solana culture has shifted the goalposts. Making lofty promises about building “the future of X” or “Uber on the blockchain” is no longer enough; teams need to find PMF and generate sustainable revenue, or risk being left behind.

With that in mind, the Solana Breakpoint agenda is packed with speakers who are exhibiting successful and sustainable revenues onchain. No other crypto conference gives attendees the chance to hear insights and hot takes from the movers and shakers shaping Internet Capital Markets in real time.

Returns - Solana has had an unforgettable 2025, which will be forever remembered as the year the network rose out of the trenches and stormed onto Wall Street. Institutions are here in full force, with ETFs and DATs accumulating and hoarding billions of dollars worth of $SOL.

While builders build, investors are on the hunt for Solana’s next unicorn. Hear future outlooks from the institutional players buying millions of $SOL per day, and glean insights from the VCs and angels placing bets on Solana’s next billion-dollar protocol.

The UAE Connection

This year, Solana Breakpoint takes place in the capital of capital, Abu Dhabi. Breakpoint’s dates slot in comfortably after Bitcoin MENA and Abu Dhabi Finance Week, so the city will be heaving with some of the world’s biggest financial players and capital allocators.

Moving beyond the crypto bubble, Solana Breakpoint will play host to some of the UAE’s most influential regulators and policymakers. His Excellency Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi, the UAE Minister of Foreign Trade, and His Excellency Rashed Abdulkarim Al Blooshi, ADGM Registration Authority, will both take the stage, illuminating the UAE’s stance on cryptocurrency regulation.

SolanaFloor at Breakpoint

As crypto’s largest Solana-native media outlet and newsroom, SolanaFloor will naturally be in the thick of the on-ground action at Breakpoint.

This year, we’re going bigger than ever. Livestreaming directly from a glass booth right next to the main stage, we’ll be interviewing builders, founders, and investors from across Solana, diving into everything shaping the ecosystem.

Most speakers will only have between five and ten minutes on the mainstage, which is never enough time to communicate the gravity of an announcement. As news breaks, join your favorite founders on the SolanaFloor livestream to get the inside scoop on the impacts and implications of Breakpoint’s biggest announcements.

The Side Event Calendar

The bright lights and vast stages of the Etihad Arena are the main attraction, but everyone knows that side events are where the real alpha gets shared. This year, ecosystem teams are throwing dozens of side events, offering attendees everything from hyper-focused, sector-specific mini-conferences to go-karting races and rooftop happy hours.

If you're still scratching your head trying to figure out how to best fill your side-event calendar, BlastCtrl’s notion page is the ultimate resource for collating each day’s extracurricular activities in one place.

Save the Date: December 11-13, 2025, Etihad Arena

If you’re:

• A founder looking for capital, users, or partners

• A developer deciding where to build next

• An investor scanning for the next Solana unicorn

• A degen trying to figure out the next meta

Breakpoint 2025 in Abu Dhabi is the place to be.

If you can’t make it? Tune into the SolanaFloor Livestream, and we’ll bring the very best of Breakpoint directly to you.

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