While the Solana Seeker doesn’t reinvent the smartphone, it does something almost as ambitious: It brings the full weight of Web3 — keys, wallets, identity, ownership — directly into your pocket. This means we are moving into an era of the user, us, owning our own data instead of corporate entities. The Seeker doesn’t pass the test by trying to outgun Apple or Samsung on hardware. It’s not a reinvention of the phone itself. But where it succeeds — and perhaps sets a new threshold — is in embedding crypto at the operating level. From Seed Vault’s secure key storage to a Solana-native dApp store that avoids Apple’s 30% toll, the Seeker is the closest thing the crypto industry has seen to a Web3-first mobile device that actually works. The Seeker has succeeded in making wallet creation incredibly simple and intuitive, while also offering a dApp store that just works. The connections between dApps and the Solana wallet on the phone are incredibly seamless, creating a user experience that feels closer to Web2 than anything we’ve seen in crypto to date. Its most important feature is the Seed Vault, a secure, hardware-based key management system embedded directly into the phone. The Seeker isn’t just a phone — it’s Solana’s distribution rail strategy in hardware form. While Apple enforces 30% fees and buries crypto behind policy firewalls, Solana is betting that its own vertically-integrated mobile stack will unlock: Airdrop campaigns with Seeker-only rewards; Wallet-native dApps for staking, trading, minting; Mobile-first UX for apps like Jupiter, Marinade, Dialect, and Tensor; Potential hardware-backed identity & payments via Solana Pay.