This month we opened Starke Finance to a wider audience through the Public Beta and used the run-up to that launch to sharpen the fund experience, the verification flow, and the platform's day-to-day polish.

Public Beta is open

Platform, Funds, FTaaS, rkShares

On July 8th we opened the Public Beta of Starke Finance to any investor who wants to try tokenized managed funds on Solana. The beta includes the first rkShares strategies running on FTaaS, alongside the existing Solana staking product, so new users can move from onboarding through KYC into a real position without waiting for a private invitation.

The beta environment runs its own set of funds with conservative deposit limits while we gather feedback and continue hardening the platform. Full context on what is available and who it is for is covered in our public beta announcement.

Multisig governance for the vault programs

Funds, FTaaS

The upgrade authority for the Solana programs that power our vaults, in both production and staging, has been transferred to a Squads-based multisig. Any future change to the on-chain program logic now requires multiple independent signers to approve it, removing single-key upgrade paths from the deployed contracts.

This is a foundational step for the fund tokenization engine: it aligns the operational posture of FTaaS with what customers should expect from a regulated asset manager, and it is a prerequisite for the further governance controls we plan to layer on top, such as timelocks and thresholds tuned per environment.

Referral program

Platform

We launched the first version of the Starke Finance referral program. Verified users now have a dedicated page from which they can share a personal referral link, and a follow-up email is sent seven days after a user completes verification to invite them to bring peers on-board once they have had time to explore the product.

The program is designed so we can adjust or pause incentives per phase without breaking existing links, which we expect to use as the product moves from beta into general availability.

Identity verification: broader documents, clearer flow

KYC, Platform

We reworked the identity verification experience around real customer feedback. Non-US applicants can now submit a National ID card in addition to a passport, and the Driving License option is only offered to US applicants, where it is a valid form of ID. Both routes remain automatically validated.

On the surrounding UI, the KYC progress bar now reflects the actual stage a user has reached rather than an inflated default, and the “Verify your identity” banner is removed once a user is verified. Verification status is also surfaced directly on the user avatar, with a colored indicator (green for verified, gold for accredited) and a hover tooltip that explains the current tier.

Fund page refinements

Funds, rkShares

Several changes on the fund pages bring the presentation closer to standard asset-management conventions. The chart previously labelled “Share Price” is now labelled “NAV,” which is the metric it actually shows, and the per-token qualifier next to NAV has been removed to match how tokenized funds are reported elsewhere in the industry.

On the same pages, the holdings stacked bar chart has been realigned so its axis dates match the bars and its percentages match the donut chart and the holdings table. The 30-day performance chart no longer shows uneven jumps between dates, terminology across the Depositors and Activity tabs has been standardized on “depositors,” and the redeem action is now disabled when only in-kind redemption is possible, so investors deliberately choose that path rather than fall into it. When the on-chain price feed is momentarily unavailable, the deposit and redeem panels now display a clear waiting state instead of appearing blank.

Portfolio and Dashboard consistency

Platform

Dashboard total return and the Portfolio return figures are now sourced from the same endpoint and therefore report the same value. Very small numerical residues that used to show up as a stray “−0.05” in one view and “0” in another are handled consistently.

Separately, we identified and backfilled a gap in historical rkSOL pricing that could cause the Portfolio page to time out for wallets with earlier liquid-staking activity. Those wallets now load reliably.

User experience

Platform, Funds, KYC

• The wallet menu now expands from anywhere on the button, not only the small arrow.

• Small spacing added between adjacent action buttons on mobile.

• First and last names now render in title case rather than uppercase.

• The Deposit shortcut on Explore listings has been removed; deposits are initiated from the fund page itself, where verification checks live.

• The 2Z asset icon now displays consistently across every view where the asset appears.

• X sign-in has been temporarily removed while we evaluate it for a future update.

Fixes

• Bug: Portfolio no longer times out for wallets with earlier rkSOL activity; the missing historical price data has been backfilled.

• Bug: Dashboard total return and Portfolio returns now agree because both read from the same endpoint.

• Bug: Deposit and Redeem panels render a clear waiting state when the on-chain price feed is momentarily unavailable, rather than showing an empty section.

• Bug: Fund creation no longer fails partway through setup in FTaaS.

• Bug: The NAV chart on fund pages is correctly labelled NAV instead of Share Price.

• Bug: The holdings stacked bar chart axis is now aligned with its bars, and its percentages match the donut chart and holdings table.

• Bug: The 30-day fund chart no longer shows uneven jumps in its date axis.

• Bug: Corrected the “Fundementals” typo on the fund page to “Fundamentals.”

• Bug: Explore now loads all pages of results, including the later pages that previously appeared empty.

• Bug: Re-ordering assets on Explore no longer clears the active category filter.

• Bug: The sidebar no longer intermittently collapses when navigating to Funds.

• Bug: The Portfolio card is now clickable across its full area, not only over the small arrows.

• Bug: The Phantom wallet warning previously shown against our staking tokens has been removed after Phantom whitelisted them; a residual notice tied to Token-2022 extensions may still appear and is expected.

• Bug: Signing out no longer triggers an unnecessary transaction signature prompt. Some follow-on wallet prompts are governed by the connected wallet itself and cannot be suppressed on our side.

As always, questions and feedback are welcome at support.starke.finance/request.