Solana News: Ex-Binance and Polygon Execs Join the Solana Foundation

In Solana news, the Solana Foundation recently announced the hiring of Rachel Conlan, former Chief Marketing Officer at Binance, as Chief Strategy Officer, and Jamal Raees, a veteran from Polygon Labs, as General Manager of Payments.

The foundation made this announcement on September 24, 2026.The foundation believes that these new hires will help secure partnerships with banks, asset managers, and payment companies as the financial sector increasingly shifts towards blockchain technology.

I’ve joined @SolanaFndn as Chief Strategy Officer.

What excites me is Solana’s position to bring Internet Capital Markets to life: connecting assets, trading and payments on one global network, open to anyone, around the clock.You can already see it happening: $200M in…— Rachel Conlan (@RachelConlan) September 24, 2026 Solana currently leads all blockchains in tokenized stock trading, with more tokenized stocks than any other platform.