Key facts
- Leap said the app launches with no fees of its own, though network and routing costs apply.
- Leap said it plans to use future fees to buy and burn SOL and to fund a referral program.
- Leap said Founders Club members would earn 30% of trading fees from users they invite and 5% from those users' own referrals.
Leap, a new company under Solana Labs, launched a beta of its mobile trading app on Thursday, November 5, 2026, letting users trade tokenized stocks, ETFs, metals, currencies and crypto in one place around the clock and subject to restrictions. The app is available in early access on iPhone through Apple's public TestFlight program, and an Android version is coming soon. It is not available in the U.K. or other restricted regions.
Leap is built by the team behind Dialect, which Solana Labs acquired earlier this year. Dialect developed Solana Actions and Blinks, a protocol that turns blockchain transactions into shareable links, which launched in 2024, as well as the cashtags feature on X. Leap's research team curates market-moving news and pins each story to the price chart at the moment it broke, and the app tracks profit and loss across every deposit, withdrawal, trade and fee, including each position's breakeven price. Users enter an amount in dollars, and each trade executes as an onchain swap. Leap uses Jupiter for trade routing, Helius for infrastructure and Birdeye for market data.
"The Solana blockchain now confirms a trade in about 150 milliseconds thanks to Alpenglow, so the network is now faster than ever," said Chris Osborn, Leap's general manager and Dialect's founder. Alpenglow is a consensus overhaul designed to sharply cut Solana's confirmation times. Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko said: "Every app that brings new people onchain makes the whole ecosystem stronger."
Leap isn't charging its own fees at launch, though network and routing costs apply. It plans to use future fees to buy and burn SOL, permanently removing tokens from circulation, and to fund a referral program. Early waitlist members, dubbed the Founders Club, would earn 30% of the trading fees generated by users they invite and 5% from those users' own referrals.
Leap arrives as tokenized stocks gain traction on Solana and beyond. Securitize has brought tokenized Nvidia, Apple and Amazon shares to Solana, and 56 companies have objected to having their shares traded on OKX and ICE's planned tokenized stock venue, Decrypt reported.