Turning Passive Solana Users Into AI-Powered Economic Participants
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The source argument for helping ordinary Solana users become AI-assisted creators, experimenters, and builders.

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Turning Passive Solana Users Into AI-Powered Economic
Participants
The opportunity is not simply to attract more developers to Solana or to build another traditional
creator economy.
The larger opportunity is to use AI to turn passive retail users into active economic participants,
experimenters, creators, and builders on the chain.
Today, most ordinary users interact with crypto in a limited way. They buy tokens, trade, speculate, use
a few applications, follow projects, and watch what established companies or professional developers
are building.
During bear markets, many of these users have little reason to remain active. Unless there is a specific
application, community, game, or financial opportunity keeping them engaged, they often leave and
wait for the next market cycle.
AI changes what these users are capable of doing.
Vibe coding, AI-generated video, image generation, agent tools, no-code platforms, templates, public
APIs, and simplified blockchain SDKs make it possible for ordinary people to create things without first
becoming traditional software developers.
The goal should not be to turn every retail user into a professional engineer .
The goal should be to move them from passive participation into active experimentation.
A person might create:
A simple game
A small consumer application
An AI-generated video
A meme or entertainment experience
A trading interface
A community tool
A payment experiment
A new market
An automated agent
A social experience
A strange idea that does not yet fit into an existing category
Most of these experiments will fail, remain small, or never become companies.
That is not a weakness. It is the entire point.
Ten established companies testing ten carefully planned ideas cannot explore the same possibility
space as 10,000 people around the world testing 10,000 different ideas.
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Perhaps only ten of those 10,000 experiments will become genuinely important. But those ten
successful ideas may never have been discovered through a traditional, top-down development model.
AI in the hands of the many creates a level of experimentation that a small number of companies,
venture-backed teams, professional developers, or foundation-led programs cannot reproduce.
This could create an entirely new economic layer on Solana that is difficult to predict in advance.
The value would not come only from major companies building large applications. It would emerge
from thousands of people creating small products, games, videos, communities, services, tools, and
experiences.
Some people would earn money from what they create. Some would build audiences. Some would
create entertainment. Some would learn enough to become developers. Some would eventually create
companies. Others would simply enjoy experimenting and contributing to the culture.
All of these outcomes increase activity, knowledge, loyalty, and economic participation within the
ecosystem.
From Top-Down Marketing to Horizontal Creation
Solana currently benefits from strong companies, applications, professional developers, events,
ecosystem organisations, and foundation-supported marketing.
However , this growth model is still largely top-down.
Companies build products.
Professional teams create campaigns.
The Foundation and ecosystem organisations support initiatives.
Influencers and media accounts distribute the message.
Retail users mostly consume, invest, trade, watch, and react.
The alternative is not to remove this top-down structure. The alternative is to use it to enable horizontal
expansion.
The top of the ecosystem should provide:
Tools
Infrastructure
Education
Incentives
Distribution
AI model access
Public APIs
Simplified SDKs
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Competitions
Grants
Events
Recognition
A stage for creators
Ordinary users around the world would then use those resources to create and distribute things
horizontally through their own communities, languages, cultures, interests, and audiences.
This is top-down enablement followed by bottom-up experimentation and horizontal growth.
Instead of a small number of organisations creating products and marketing for millions of passive
users, thousands of users would begin producing experiences for one another .
That creates a different kind of ecosystem flywheel:
Solana provides the tools and incentives.
People experiment and create.
Their creations attract, educate, and entertain other people.
Some of those people become creators themselves.
A small percentage become serious developers, founders, or economically successful participants.
The ecosystem becomes more active, culturally diverse, resilient, and difficult to replicate.
People Should Come to See What People Are Creating
Crypto events and ecosystem marketing often focus on what companies are launching.
People attend conferences to hear announcements, watch product demonstrations, meet professional
teams, and see what funded companies have built.
That should continue, but it should not be the only focus.
People should also attend Solana events to see what ordinary people from around the world have
created.
At events such as Breakpoint, there could be side events and public showcases built around:
AI application competitions
Vibe-coding challenges
Public game creation competitions
AI-generated film and video showcases
Meme and entertainment competitions
Agent-building events
Consumer app experiments
Onchain market creation
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Solana payment experiments
Community automation tools
Creative uses of Jupiter , Phoenix, Squads, and other ecosystem APIs
Live competitions where people create something during the event
Rewards for unusual, entertaining, useful, or culturally relevant experiments
For example, showing a poker game built on Solana is interesting.
However , a larger opportunity would be to announce a public challenge for people around the world to
build poker games, create supporting applications, design AI-generated promotional content, produce
event videos, build community tools, or invent entirely new experiences around the same concept.
Instead of the ecosystem presenting one finished product to an audience, it could invite thousands of
people to participate in expanding the idea.
This changes the question from:
“What are companies building on Solana?”
To:
“What are people around the world creating on Solana?”
Solana as the AI Experimentation Chain
Solana has an opportunity to become the dominant blockchain for AI-powered consumer
experimentation.
However , this will not happen automatically simply because Solana is fast, inexpensive, technically
capable, or already has strong applications.
Another chain or protocol could deliberately pursue this strategy first.
A competitor could make AI creation central to its identity by giving ordinary users:
Free or subsidised AI inference
Public model endpoints
Easy wallet and payment integration
Creator-focused educational material
Simple blockchain templates
Consumer-friendly SDK demonstrations
Vibe-coding tools
Public competitions
Small creation grants
Global online events
Recognition and distribution for successful projects
A welcoming culture where experimentation is valued even when it does not become a company
If another ecosystem carefully develops this culture, it could attract the emerging generation of AI-
native creators before Solana does.
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The winning blockchain may not be the one with the most professional developers today.
It may be the one that is best at converting ordinary people into economically active creators tomorrow.
Solana should aim to become the easiest place for someone with an idea—but limited technical
experience—to create something, connect it to an economy, launch it publicly, and potentially earn
from it.
AI provides the creative and technical capability.
Solana can provide payments, ownership, markets, identity, coordination, distribution, and economic
infrastructure.
Together , these could create products and behaviours that are not yet visible.
The Importance of Fun
Not every creation needs to become a startup.
Not every participant needs to become a founder .
Not every experiment needs to solve a major financial or technical problem.
Fun matters.
DOGE has historically inspired people to build around it because the culture is social, accessible,
entertaining, and does not require every contribution to become a serious venture-backed business.
Solana could develop an AI-era version of that spirit.
People could build because it is fun to create.
They could make games, videos, memes, strange applications, community experiences, bots,
experiments, and cultural projects.
Some would remain entertainment.
Some would unexpectedly develop real economic value.
Some would lead their creators into deeper involvement with Solana.
A healthy ecosystem needs room for serious infrastructure, professional companies, speculative
markets, and playful experimentation.
The playful layer can become the entry point into the economic and developer layers.
A user may begin by generating a video.
Then they may create a simple website.
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Then they may add a wallet connection.
Then they may integrate payments.
Then they may use an SDK.
Then they may launch a small application.
Eventually, they may become part of the developer ecosystem without ever having originally identified
as a developer .
This creates a transitionary path:
Passive user → enjoyer → experimenter → creator → economic participant → builder → developer or
founder .
Not everyone will complete that entire path.
They do not need to.
The value comes from increasing the number of people who move even one or two steps forward.
What This Could Look Like in Practice
A serious ecosystem push could include:
AI model partnerships
Solana could partner with inference providers to offer temporary free access, subsidised usage,
competitions, or ecosystem-specific campaigns.
For example, a fast and affordable model such as DeepSeek Flash could be made available through a
public or subsidised endpoint for approved creation events.
The purpose would not only be to give developers cheaper infrastructure. It would be to reduce the cost
of experimentation for ordinary users.
A Solana AI gateway
A unified Solana gateway could provide access to selected AI models, tools, blockchain APIs, templates,
and educational resources.
Users should not need to understand complex infrastructure before they can begin experimenting.
The gateway could become the starting point for anyone who wants to create an AI-powered Solana
application, video, game, agent, or experience.
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Public creator buildathons
Traditional hackathons often target experienced developers.
Creator buildathons could target a broader group:
Vibe coders
Designers
Video creators
Meme creators
Gamers
Community operators
Marketers
Students
Curious retail users
People with ideas but limited programming experience
Judging could reward creativity, entertainment, usefulness, originality, cultural impact, and
experimentation—not only technical complexity.
Better presentation of existing Solana tools
Solana already has powerful infrastructure through projects such as Jupiter , Phoenix, Squads, payment
tools, wallet systems, token infrastructure, and many other APIs and SDKs.
However , these tools are often presented for professional developers.
They could also be explained through consumer-friendly creation paths.
Instead of only documenting an SDK technically, the ecosystem could show people what they can make
with it.
For example:
Build your own simple trading game
Create a community treasury
Launch a market
Add payments to an AI-generated app
Create a basic prediction experience
Build a social tipping tool
Make a multiplayer game with onchain rewards
Create an AI agent that can complete a defined onchain action
The education should begin with the desired creation, not with the underlying technical architecture.
AI video and media creation
AI creation is not limited to software.
Solana could organise global video, film, animation, design, music, meme, and storytelling
competitions.
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Instead of relying mainly on central marketing teams, the ecosystem could distribute creative
production across thousands of people.
Creators could be rewarded for producing content that educates, entertains, promotes applications,
explains ecosystem concepts, or tells stories about Solana.
This would create horizontally distributed marketing while also developing creator skills and increasing
cultural participation.
Small prizes and frequent experimentation
Not every competition needs a massive prize pool.
Frequent small rewards may generate more experimentation than a small number of large, highly
competitive grants.
The ecosystem could reward:
The funniest experiment
The best game
The strangest application
The best educational video
The best local-language content
The best use of an ecosystem API
The best project created by a first-time builder
The best creation made within 24 hours
The best project that earns its first dollar
The best project that attracts its first 100 users
The aim is to create motion, confidence, repetition, and visible participation.
The Core Strategic Argument
The argument is not that Solana lacks developers.
It is not simply that Solana needs more creators.
It is that AI has changed who is capable of becoming economically productive within a blockchain
ecosystem.
Previously, creating applications, games, media, automations, or onchain tools required specialised
skills, significant time, and often a professional team.
AI is reducing those barriers.
This means millions of people who were previously limited to consuming, trading, or investing may
soon be capable of creating.
The chain that successfully activates those people could develop a major advantage.
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Professional teams can create high-quality products.
But large-scale public experimentation discovers possibilities that professional planning cannot.
Ten companies may create ten polished ideas.
Ten thousand people may create thousands of failures, hundreds of interesting experiments, dozens of
useful products, and several entirely new economic categories.
Those successful ideas cannot always be predicted or planned from the top.
They must be discovered through participation.
The Message
The message to users should be simple:
Stop being only a passive investor or consumer .
Start experimenting.
Start creating.
Build something small.
Make something entertaining.
Use the chain.
Use the tools.
Try an idea.
Earn your first dollar .
Create something that other people can use, watch, play, remix, or build upon.
Solana should not only be the place where companies build products for users.
It should become the place where people around the world create products, media, games, markets,
communities, and experiences for one another .
AI puts creation into the hands of the many.
Solana should provide the tools, incentives, culture, infrastructure, and stage that allow this creativity to
become economic activity.
The opportunity is to move from retail liquidity to retail creativity.
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The strategic goal is to turn passive users into active economic experimenters.
And the defining question should become:
Not only “What are companies building on Solana?”
But “What are people around the world creating on Solana?”
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