From Vault to Chain: How Oro Brought Gold to Solana

​Gold is up roughly 40% year over year. Institutional allocations are rising. And yet most of that capital has nowhere to go onchain — until now.

​Usman, Founder and CEO of Oro, joins us at Solana Network State for a founder-level breakdown of what it actually takes to tokenize a real-world commodity on Solana, and what he would do differently if he started today.

​This is an honest session covering the hard parts most RWA teams underestimate. Custody and vault logistics. Navigating compliance across jurisdictions. Getting traditional gold industry counterparts to take crypto seriously. Structuring legal entities that satisfy both DeFi composability and institutional scrutiny. And the constant challenge of bootstrapping and sustaining liquidity for an asset that does not behave like a native crypto token.

​Liquidity gets its own focus — how to think about market-making for tokenized commodities, the gap between what works for memecoins and what works for RWAs, and the practical realities of building enough depth for your token to actually be usable in DeFi.

​Usman will also share his experience going through Colosseum as a founder, what judges look for in RWA projects, and practical advice for hackathon teams building in the tokenized commodities space.

​If you are building anything touching real-world assets, tokenized commodities, or compliant financial primitives on Solana, this session is directly relevant to your project.

​What you will walk away with: the real operational and regulatory challenges of tokenizing a physical commodity and how to sequence solving them, how to structure custody, legal entities, and compliance so they work across both TradFi and DeFi, what it takes to get legacy industry players comfortable with onchain rails, how to think about liquidity and market-making for RWAs, and a founder's honest take on the Colosseum process — what works, what to avoid, and how to position an RWA project for the judges.