Solomon Lab Notes 02
Week two is about building on week one: scaling the protocol deliberately, advancing the DAO’s legal and governance structure, finishing key infrastructure, adding another cracked team member, and improving the product.
Most of the work this week continued the tracks from week one as we get the protocol ready for broader public access.
Growth: Access & TVL
USDv crossed $2M in TVL this week. That growth came alongside 600+ additional whitelisted users as we continue our phased scaling strategy.
Priority access continues to go to wallets holding SOLO.
We will keep widening access as the weeks progress, rather than flipping a single switch.
Governance
Governance work this week was a continuation of week one.
We completed the initial set of legal documents and sent them to our counsel for review.
Once that review is complete, we’ll post the first proposal.
This first proposal will bind the ownership aspect of the DAO into a clean off-chain legal structure.
After that proposal passes, we’ll stand up a second proposal that allows treasury assets to go to work within the protocol, including conversion to USDv and seeding core pools.
Venues & Custody
The long pole right now is venue onboarding, which is mostly paperwork and compliance.
We could, in theory, go public with what we have today, but our plan is to have the full custody + venue stack live before we remove caps:
Additional custody providers to increase redundancy, flexibility, and unlock T-bill access.
Additional exchanges to expand strategic options and improve liquidity pathways.
The existing backend infrastructure was built to be custody and venue agnostic. Once the final paperwork/compliance is done, integrating new custody providers and exchanges is primarily configuration work.
Protocol Engineering: Pools, State Machines, Events
As noted in Lab Notes 01, we continued work on:
Pool state machines.
Event flows and internal tooling.
To accelerate this track, we ran interviews with three dev candidates. There are promising options, and we’re aiming to add one more senior dev.
If you’re excited about what we are building at Solomon and have the skills and work ethic that align, reach out.
Frontend: Product Clarity, Mobile UX, Brand Refresh
Frontend work this week focused on three areas:
1. Product Clarity
Goal: make it obvious what USDv is, how it generates yield, and what positions a user holds.
Extended the landing page with clearer explanations of USDv, yield generation, and YaaS.
Added a new user profile modal displaying balances across the Solomon ecosystem.
Continued UX/UI development on the YaaS dashboard and management flows.
2. Mobile UX
We revisited the mobile experience end to end to make sure the app feels intuitive on smaller screens.
Reworked UX/UI for Buy and Stake flows (shipping soon).
Designed targeted mobile UX/UI improvements that will roll out over the coming cycles.
3. Brand Refresh
The brand refresh is underway in parallel and will start with a full landing page redesign. We plan to time this with the public launch so the product, story, and visuals are aligned.
If you’re part of the beta cohort, you can use the new #ux-ui-feedback channel in Discord to share feedback and help us prioritize what matters most.
What This Means & What’s Next
This week was about compounding the work from week one as we continue to scale:
Technical hardening.
Legal and governance completion.
Deliberate, phased access growth.
Clearer product messaging, stronger mobile UX, and an evolving brand.
There is no single hard 0→1 flip from beta to public. It’s a spectrum: step up access, launch YaaS, bring the full custody + venue stack online. The actual launch comes when caps are removed and we announce our full set of launch partners, a list that continues to grow.
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