Introducing The First Solana Mobile Guardians
The first third-party Guardians for the Solana dApp Store are now fully operational with onchain voting, with Helius and Jito joining Solana Mobile. Guardians are independent operators who run automated checks on every new app and update submitted to the Solana dApp Store, the app store built into Seeker and the Solana Mobile Stack. Each Guardian checks the submission and records its vote on Solana at GUARDsVUfAaydbPU6QGcpWRLUkExaULtaygwEtkdhZAD, where anyone can see when and whether Guardians voted. If enough Guardians agree, the submission progresses through the approval process.
Here is how it works, and who the first Guardians are.
How Guardians work
Post bond to join. Each Guardian posts a bond of 250,000 SKR, the native asset of the Solana Mobile ecosystem, to take part. That way, every reviewer has its own SKR committed to the network.
Verify apps. When a developer submits a new app or an update, each Guardian runs automated checks for malicious code and compliance with the review policy. Each vote records which version of that policy it used and what the checks found.
Approve or reject apps. Each Guardian casts its vote onchain at GUARDsVUfAaydbPU6QGcpWRLUkExaULtaygwEtkdhZAD. If enough Guardians vote, the release progresses through the approval process. Because every vote is onchain, anyone can check how each Guardian voted on each release.
Earn SKR. Guardians are rewarded in SKR for their work.
The first Guardians
Three Guardians are voting together: Helius and Jito now vote alongside Solana Mobile.
Anza, [DoubleZero], and Triton One plan to join as the next Guardians at a later date.
Check out the first onchain vote ever recorded here.
What this means for you
If you use Seeker, nothing changes about how you find or install apps. The difference is in how those apps got there. Every new app and update submitted to the Solana dApp Store is checked by Guardians, and the record of their votes is public. You can watch votes arrive in the live feed here. Guardian review is not a guarantee that an app is safe or free of defects.
If you build apps, you submit through the publishing portal as you do today. Your submission is recorded onchain, Guardians review it, and the result appears in your portal. You can see that each Guardian voted onchain. If your app is rejected, you will receive an email. Apps already on the Solana dApp Store stay listed, and their future updates will go through Guardians.
A more open app store for everyone
Seeker was built on a simple idea: your phone should answer to you. Your keys live in Seed Vault, your digital assets stay in your custody, and now, app review is shared with independent operators .
That is what open mobile looks like in practice. Someone will always decide what reaches your phone. Starting today, on the Solana dApp Store, more than one company takes part in that decision, and every vote is public .
You can learn more about Guardians and their role in the Solana Mobile ecosystem at solanamobile.com/skr.
