Send

What Send Is and the Problem It Solves

Send is a Solana ecosystem project that began as a community-driven token for the Solana Blinks protocol and over roughly 18 months evolved into SendAI — a self-described applied AI lab focused on giving AI agents the economic and tooling layer they need to participate directly in on-chain financial markets. The original SEND token was fair-launched with no venture capital backing at a $500k fully diluted valuation on Meteora, making it one of the few Solana ecosystem tokens that emerged entirely from grassroots community funding.

The problem the current SendAI phase addresses is a straightforward developer bottleneck: integrating an AI agent with Solana requires wiring together dozens of disparate protocol SDKs, managing wallets, handling transaction logic, and re-implementing common actions for every new project. SendAI collapses that surface area into a single open-source toolkit so that any LLM or autonomous agent can issue on-chain instructions with a few lines of code.

From Blinks Token to Applied AI Lab

Send's history has two distinct chapters. In its first chapter, the SEND token served as the community currency for Solana's Blinks ecosystem — the on-chain actions protocol that lets transactions be embedded directly into social media posts and web pages. The team launched 100,000 NFTs through the Blinks interface and ran a presale that attracted approximately 720,000 SOL (valued at over $100 million at the time), briefly making SEND one of the highest-grossing presale tokens in Solana's history. That wave of attention faded as token management struggled to match the initial hype.

During this period the team also shipped more than 30 products spanning AI tooling, consumer applications, and gaming initiatives — all aimed at expanding Solana adoption. That broad product experience formed the technical base for the project's second chapter.

In December 2024 Send rebranded into SendAI and announced the Solana Agent Kit, an open-source framework for connecting AI agents directly to Solana protocols. The announcement drew endorsements from Solana's official account and co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (Toly), causing the SEND token's market cap to surge from roughly $20 million to $175 million within two hours. SendAI also organized the Solana AI Hackathon, which attracted more than 400 projects, establishing the team as a central node in the emerging Solana AI ecosystem.

How the Solana Agent Kit Works

The Solana Agent Kit (available in TypeScript and Python) exposes a unified interface through which an AI agent — connected to LangChain, OpenAI's GPT models, or any other LLM framework — can issue natural-language instructions that resolve to signed Solana transactions. Under the hood the kit uses a modular plugin architecture with components for tokens, NFTs, DeFi operations, miscellaneous utilities, and Blinks actions.

In practice, a developer wraps a funded Solana keypair in the agent kit, then instructs the agent in plain language ("swap 10 USDC for SOL at best price" or "deploy a new SPL token with these parameters"). The kit handles routing, slippage, signing, and submission without the developer needing to hand-write transaction logic for each integrated protocol.

Supported operation categories include:

• Token management — SPL token deployment, transfers, balance queries, and metadata via Metaplex
• NFT operations — creation, minting, collection management, and AI-generated artwork via DALL-E integration
• DeFi trading — swaps and liquidity pool creation across Jupiter Exchange, Raydium, Orca, and Meteora
• Lending and staking — Lulo lending services and JupSOL staking through the Blinks interface
• Perpetuals and advanced trading — Drift Protocol and Adrena integration for leveraged positions
• Cross-chain bridging — deBridge and Wormhole for asset transfers out of Solana
• ZK-compressed airdrops — cost-efficient mass token distributions using Light Protocol and Helius compression
• Price feeds — Pyth Network integration for real-time on-chain price data
• Domain registration — Solana Name Service (SNS) domain management

The toolkit also incorporates LangChain evaluations to reduce hallucination risk, embedded wallet support through Turnkey and Privy, and React Native compatibility for mobile-facing applications. As of mid-2025 the repository shows 1,700+ GitHub stars, 50,000+ NPM downloads, and integrations with 30+ Solana protocols contributed by 44+ external developers.

Token Restructuring

The original SEND token has been restructured in connection with the SendAI pivot. The project took the token private and described the original issuance as "sunsetted," while recording all prior holders for potential future allocations. The revised capital structure allocates 35% to treasury and development (three-year vesting), 15% to the core team (three-year vesting), 15% to early backers, 10% to liquidity pool burning, and 25% to community distributions. A separate SENDAI token also trades on Solana, distinct from the original SEND ticker, reflecting the project's repositioning as an AI infrastructure provider.

Team and Background

The founding team describes itself as "long-time Solana ecosystem builders." They organized Solana's largest crypto-AI hackathon before launching the Agent Kit, positioning SendAI as a community-first organization rather than a VC-backed startup. The Solana Agent Kit is licensed under Apache 2.0, reflecting an open-source-first philosophy.

How Send Fits Solana

SendAI occupies a specific infrastructure layer in the Solana ecosystem: it sits between LLMs and the blockchain, translating model outputs into valid on-chain transactions. As AI agents become a growing category of on-chain participants — holding wallets, executing trades, managing liquidity — tooling like the Solana Agent Kit addresses a real gap. The project's backing from core Solana contributors and its track record through the Blinks phase give it credibility within the ecosystem, even as the token economics have been substantially restructured from the project's original form.