What other products will Solana launch in 2025 besides the second mobile phone?

If Solana investors look beyond their AI tokens, they’ll see some interesting products scheduled to launch this year.

Of course, shipping dates can always be delayed, but as of now, a host of Solana product launches are expected in 2025. Solana Mobile’s Seeker phone tops the list, along with Jump Crypto’s Firedancer full client. DePIN, crypto wearables, and Jito’s restaking platform are also areas to watch, with new product launches expected.

The most noteworthy product launch, in the opinion of this correspondent, will be the Solana Seeker, the second phone created by Solana Mobile. The new phone is expected to be launched in mid-2025.

Solana Mobile was developed by Solana Labs, the original Solana development company where co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal still work. Perhaps on the strength of its credibility, Seeker has attracted dozens of Solana teams to its so-called dApp store.

Seeker orders came in part from interest in the token airdrop associated with the phone, which proved to be quite lucrative for the last Solana phone. When we last spoke in October, Solana Mobile general manager Emmett Hollyer said the Seeker, which currently costs $500, had received 145,000 pre-orders.

Hot on the heels of the Seeker hype may be the full launch of Firedancer, a Solana validator client built from the ground up by Jump Crypto. Firedancer is the software that Solana network validators can run to process transactions and build blockchains — and Solana’s die-hard fans have been raving about it since development began in 2022.

Firedancer was revealed to be live at the Solana Breakpoint conference in September 2024, but is currently only running in non-voting mode, meaning the client still essentially comes with training wheels. No one really knows if or when Firedancer will be fully live, and the team hasn’t done much to promote it. The client’s GitHub repository shows two code commits related to voting transactions in the past month.

Despite a slight decline in interest in DePINs among crypto chatterboxes, I followed the launch of a Solana DePIN this year. DAWN is a darling of the crypto space that aims to be a decentralized internet service provider with a mainnet launch scheduled for 2025.

Speaking of industries that have seen a decline in interest amid the explosion in artificial intelligence, Jito’s restaking platform should be launched in about a month , a team member told me today.

There’s one wild card to watch: fitness tech. The Pulse, a fitness tracker that connects to Solana, is scheduled to ship in the first quarter. Cudis’ second-generation Solana smart ring just started shipping in December (I should note that my first Cudis ring rusted, though my second has been fine so far. Buyer beware, though).