Solana Identity shuts down services, will delete all user data by year-end

Solana Identity, the protocol that let users build onchain reputation profiles within the Solana ecosystem, announced on August 19 that it’s pulling the plug. The ID Hub, API, and Display Network will all go dark by September 30, 2026, with full user data deletion scheduled before the year is out.

What’s shutting down and when

All three core products, the ID Hub, the API, and the Display Network, will cease functioning by the end of September 2026.

User data and email lists face deletion by December 31, 2026. There’s one exception: users who actively opt in can retain their placement on email lists. Everyone else gets wiped.

The company also burned its treasury holdings of $SOLID, the protocol’s native token. The token itself will continue to exist on-chain with locked liquidity pools, but without a functioning protocol behind it.

How Solana ID worked

Solana ID operated what it called a “data-2-earn” model. Verifiers on the platform would pay in $SOLID tokens to access identity data, and users who contributed their information earned accrued rewards in return.

The protocol positioned itself within a broader constellation of Solana-based identity projects. Civic, another identity verification layer on Solana, has been operating in a similar space for years. The Solana Attestation Service, which launched in 2025, took a different architectural approach by focusing on attestation records rather than full identity profiles.

What this means for Solana’s identity landscape

For the remaining identity players on Solana, Civic continues to operate, and the Solana Attestation Service provides a different technical foundation for identity-related use cases.

Developers who built applications relying on Solana ID’s verification services have until September 30, 2026 to migrate to alternative solutions. The $SOLID token remains tradeable on-chain with locked liquidity pools.

Users who want their data preserved should act before the year-end deadline. Those who don’t opt in to retain their email list placement will have their information permanently deleted.

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