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Building in public · 5 min read

Why we're building Orivions — and why the Solana services market is broken

Thousands of funded teams. Thousands of service companies. And the main way they find each other in 2026 is asking strangers on Discord and hoping the recommendation isn't someone's friend doing them a favor.

The problem, concretely

If you've ever shipped anything on Solana, you know this moment: you need an auditor before mainnet, or a Rust developer for a fork, or someone who actually understands crypto marketing. So you post in a Discord server. You get three conflicting recommendations, one link to an agency with a beautiful website and no verifiable track record, and one DM from someone who "can definitely do it" for suspiciously little.

There's no place to verify who's actually good. Portfolios are unverifiable claims. Reviews on generic B2B directories are gameable — and worse, most of those directories openly sell visibility, so the "top" providers are simply the ones who paid the most.

We checked. One of the biggest Web3 B2B directories states in its own FAQ that free-tier providers get "limited visibility" compared to paying ones. Ranking by invoice, not by quality, is the industry standard. We think that's exactly backwards.

What Orivions does about it

Why Solana specifically

Generic Web3 directories go wide and shallow — every chain, every category, no depth anywhere. We're going the opposite way: one ecosystem, deeply. Solana has the builder density, the funding pipeline (grants, hackathons, accelerators), and the culture of shipping fast that makes a dedicated services layer genuinely useful rather than nice-to-have.

What "building in public" means here

This blog will publish real numbers — providers onboarded, deals closed, what worked, what didn't. Including the failures, because a launch journal that only reports wins is marketing pretending to be transparency. Next up: a practical guide to choosing a Solana auditor, and the first "State of Solana Services" data report once the platform has numbers worth publishing.

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