In April, the company acquired Darklake Labs for $1.2 million, paying $200,000 cash and issuing $1 million in common shares held for four months. Darklake’s Zyga engine provides Solana-native zero-knowledge transaction privacy, dynamic slippage protection and front-running mitigation, backed by a team with Meta, IBM, Coinbase and Coincover experience.

The firm agreed to buy Houdini Swap for $18 million—$8.25 million cash, $5.75 million promissory note, $4 million in shares and additional warrants—expected to close by end of May. Houdini is a non-custodial, privacy-enabled aggregator operating across 100 blockchains and generated $13 million in revenue during 2025 on $2.5 billion cumulative volume.

These acquisitions move the company beyond validator ownership into proprietary middleware and API-based software monetization, adding a fifth revenue stream alongside staking, delegated validation and its STKESOL fee layer. The deal broadens monetization towards higher-margin transaction and software revenue by integrating cross-chain routing, private swap services and value-added execution quality features.

Combined Zyga and Houdini assets offer integration potential to enhance private swap execution, expand B2B API offerings and feed users into the staking ecosystem. This integration could increase transaction volume, fee capture and margin contribution while preserving execution quality across 3.8 million SOL of assets under delegation.