TREE NEWS update: The Solana Foundation has hired Rachel Conlan, formerly Binance’s chief marketing officer, and payments executive Jamal Raees. Conlan will oversee institutional partnerships and ecosystem growth, while Raees will focus on stablecoins and tokenized deposits. The appointments follow a wave of new partnerships for the foundation.
Solana Foundation Hires Ex-Binance CMO Rachel Conlan, Payments Exec Jamal Raees
The hires signal where the Solana Foundation sees its next phase of growth: institutions and payments rails rather than retail marketing. Bringing in a former top exchange marketing executive alongside a payments specialist suggests stablecoins and tokenized deposits are being treated as a distinct business line, not a side experiment. The pairing also hints that distribution and credibility with traditional finance matter as much as technology. Whether these appointments translate into concrete institutional adoption, and how the foundation balances that push against its existing ecosystem, is the open question worth watching.
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