Lomen

Lomen launched in December 2024 as a Solana-native AI-powered trading tool. Its original premise was direct: give DeFi users a single interface to execute multi-step position operations across apps, assets, and protocols in one click. Instead of jumping between lending platforms, DEXes, and staking dashboards to construct or rebalance a strategy, Lomen aimed to collapse that complexity into a unified AI-assisted action layer. The project listed on Solana Compass under the tagline Find AI-enabled strategies. The team entered the competitive Solana hackathon circuit early. Lomen placed as a highly recommended project in the DeFi subcategory of the Solana Breakpoint 2025 Hackathon, which drew thousands of participants across categories including infrastructure, consumer applications, stablecoins, and real-world assets. Coverage of that hackathon described Lomen as an AI trading assistant tool that allows users to perform multi-step position operations across apps, assets, and protocols with a single click. The team also competed in the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon, organized by the Solana Foundation and hosted on the Colosseum platform, which gathered over 9000 participants submitting more than 1500 projects. By early 2025 the team had broadened its product scope and rebranded as Cesto. Both getlomen.com and lomen.org now redirect permanently to cesto.co. The Colosseum Frontier Hackathon winners announcement acknowledged this explicitly, listing the project as Cesto (previously known as Lomen) when recognizing it as a Top 25 winner. The rebrand reflected a product shift rather than a simple name change. Where Lomen focused on AI-driven execution of individual DeFi moves, Cesto organized those capabilities into a basket investing model: curated or user-generated bundles of Solana tokens, real-world assets, prediction market positions, and leveraged products that execute and rebalance as a single portfolio. The core promise shifted from finding AI-enabled strategies to investing in a conviction thesis, with the product distilled into one-click access to a themed collection of assets that lands directly in a user wallet with no custody intermediary. Cestos baskets are bundles of Solana tokens and associated positions organized around a common investment thesis. A user selects a basket and buys the entire collection in a single transaction. All assets settle directly in the users wallet; Cesto holds no custody. The platform integrates with several Solana ecosystem protocols to source liquidity, optimize routes, and access yield opportunities. The tech stack includes Jupiter for aggregated token swaps, Jito for MEV-protected transaction routing, Kamino for lending and yield, Polymarket and Kalshi for prediction market exposure, and Parlor for additional derivatives access. This combination allows baskets to hold not just spot tokens but also yield-bearing positions and prediction market contracts within the same portfolio vehicle. Once a basket is purchased, Cesto monitors positions and surfaces rebalancing suggestions when allocations drift. Users can adjust holdings at any time without surrendering custody. An optimization layer also runs daily scans across lending, staking, and leverage opportunities to surface additional yield on existing basket positions. Basket creation is not limited to the Cesto team. The platforms Cesto Labs feature allows community members to propose, publish, and vote on new baskets. This permissionless basket creation expands the range of theses available on the platform and gives early creators a way to build an audience for their investment frameworks. The app went live on March 31 2025, alongside a points campaign that rewarded early users through basket multipliers, time-held bonuses, and social engagement tasks. Cesto won the Solana Demo Day, an event recognizing standout Solana ecosystem projects. The team also received a grant from Superteam UAE, the regional chapter of the Solana community support network. At the Solana Frontier Hackathon, described as the largest crypto hackathon held to date with 2857 teams submitting products plus 112 additional submissions from the ongoing Eternal sprint, Cesto placed among the Top 25 winners. Colosseums announcement described the selected projects as demonstrating the necessary execution speed, insight, founder-market fit, prioritization, and overall talent to potentially build an enduring crypto startup. Following the hackathon, Cesto was admitted to Colosseums fifth accelerator cohort, joining 20 other Solana startups drawn from Frontier and the Eternal continuous sprint. Colosseums accelerator provides backing and network access to early-stage Solana projects building toward product-market fit. Cesto is based in the United Kingdom. As of mid-2026 the team has publicly stated no token is planned, confirming the absence of one in community channels. Lomens original vision of AI-assisted DeFi strategy execution placed it at the intersection of two of Solanas fastest-growing categories in late 2024: AI agent tooling and consumer DeFi. The Solana ecosystem saw a surge of AI agent infrastructure projects through 2024 and 2025. Lomens evolution into Cesto charts a path from that AI agent wave toward a more structured consumer product: basket investing that abstracts away protocol complexity and repackages DeFi exposure into thematic conviction plays accessible without deep on-chain knowledge. The basket model addresses a practical gap in retail DeFi user experience. Holding a diversified Solana position traditionally required managing multiple protocol interfaces and manually tracking rebalancing needs across separate dashboards. Cestos non-custodial bundle approach compresses those steps into a single product layer, without routing assets through a custodian or shared pool. The platforms integration of prediction market contracts and real-world assets within the same basket structure extends that simplification beyond the standard token-only DeFi portfolio.