Publicly-traded Solana treasury company Forward Industries launched its first institutional-grade validator node on the Solana blockchain as part of its broader strategy to deepen its role within the Solana ecosystem. 

The company data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251006680092/en/Forward-Industries-Announces-Launch-of-Solana-Validator-and-Integration-with-DoubleZero” rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>announced the launch on Tuesday, saying that the validator runs on DoubleZero’s fiber network, which powers the validator and uses Jump Crypto’s Firedancer client, a new independent Solana validator client. 

Kyle Samani, chairman of the board of Forward Industries, said the move allows them to fortify Solana’s…

Publicly-traded Solana treasury company Forward Industries launched its first institutional-grade validator node on the Solana blockchain as part of its broader strategy to deepen its role within the Solana ecosystem. 

The company data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251006680092/en/Forward-Industries-Announces-Launch-of-Solana-Validator-and-Integration-with-DoubleZero” rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>announced the launch on Tuesday, saying that the validator runs on DoubleZero’s fiber network, which powers the validator and uses Jump Crypto’s Firedancer client, a new independent Solana validator client. 

Kyle Samani, chairman of the board of Forward Industries, said the move allows them to fortify Solana’s…