Why Samsung Picked Solana for 82 Million Phones | Vibhu Norby at OKX 2026

Samsung is putting stablecoins in 82 million Galaxy phones. Vibhu explains why it picked Solana to run them:

"It has to never close.

So no weekends, no bank holidays, no cutoff times.

If you're sending money at 3AM. on a Sunday or at noon on a Tuesday, it has to work the same way.

And I think that's really what Solana has built and delivered for Samsung.

And that's why networks like Visa already settle on it."

— Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer at Solana Foundation at the @TheOKXGlobal conference with Wonseok Baek and Jacquelyn Melinek