Solana in Nepal: Everyday Use Case

It was April 18, 2025, a guy named Sworaj desperately needed money in 1 hour to cure his mother, who was going through Stage 4 Cancer treatment. His father was working in Qatar, and he sent money right away. He went to the bank to take out the cash, and when he asked the bank employees to take out the money, they replied - "It will take around 24-48 hours as this is a foreign transaction". His mother died in the hospital in a few hours because he couldn't take out the money, even though the money was sent by his father due to overcomplicated policies and slow banks.

These kinds of incidents will happen even more and more if these traditional transaction methods aren't replaced by new, fast, secure, and transparent transaction methods.

But what if blockchain transactions were normalized instead of relying on these traditional transaction methods? Would it have solved this problem of slow transactions, overcomplicated policies, and huge cuts that are taken by banks in transactions? The answer is undoubtedly yes.

So to solve these issues like slow transaction rates, huge amounts of remittance, and transaction cuts, here comes Solana; a blockchain platform designed to provide fast, secure, and scalable transaction processing that can handle up to 65,000 transactions per second (tps), making it one of the quickest blockchain platforms available.

Everything related to foreign transactions, slow TPS, low limits, transaction security, and every financial problem of Nepal can be solved by adopting Solana in day-to-day life.

Let's make up a few real-life scenarios to see how Solana can be used in day-to-day use cases in Nepal.

Scenario 1 (International Transactions):

When Sunil started to work in Dubai, he hated the traditional transfer fees and delays his family had to face back in Pokhara. But he discovered Solana. It lets him send USDC valued at about NPR 136.59 (by April 19, 2025) per coin almost instantly, with fees under a tenth of a paisa per transaction. In the Solana blockchain, transactions are confirmed in roughly 400 milliseconds, so his father can see the funds arrive before hot tea becomes cold. Everything went smoothly without any additional hassle of waiting days. And because each transfer costs less than $0.00025, Sunil’s family keeps more of every hard‑earned rupee.

Most of the Nepalese work in foreign countries, thus needing to send money back here in Nepal from time to time. So anything that makes sending money easier and cheaper can lift dozens of communities and make the lives of people much easier.

Scenario 2 (Everyday Payments):

Maya runs a small gift shop in Thamel. Before using Solana, she accepted payments through eSewa, but loading money in her wallet cost her fees every time (1.75 % on cards plus small fixed charges), and she could only load up to a limit in a day. If she hit her limit, she’d have to wait until tomorrow or even days or upgrade her wallet. That meant hidden costs and extra steps.

Now, she has added a Solana Pay QR code at her counter. Visitors just scan, pay in stablecoins, and the money lands in her wallet in seconds with no surprise fees. Whether it’s ten tourists in a row or one at a time, Maya never has to worry about transactions.

Out on the mountain road, the tea cup seller faced the same eSewa and other centralized payment apps headaches, such as failed “cash‐in” attempts on busy afternoons, card fees eating into his tiny margins, and strict limits on how much he could receive. Since switching to Solana, he accepts SOL or USDC through a simple phone app, and each evening, she swaps it for rupees at a local exchange. The result? No more waiting, no more hidden charges, and every paisa she earns stays in her pocket.

Scenario 3 (Businesses and artists use case):

In Lalitpur, farmers unite to buy seeds and fertilizers in bulk. They pool SOL in a shared wallet, make group purchases from the city supplier, and split costs in an instant, trustless way with no bank account required.

Meanwhile, young artists in Bhaktapur mint digital postcards and the local arts made by them as NFTs on Solana, sell them overseas, and receive payouts in USDC that hit their wallet in seconds, all for a fraction of a rupee in fees.

How It Works Under the Hood (technical part):

At its core, every Solana transaction pays a base fee of 5,000 lamports (about 0.000005 SOL) to reward validators, half of which is burned to keep a supply in check. With its proof‑of‑history clock and parallel processing, Solana provides high TPS (Transactions Per Second), even up to 65000 TPS at peak times, absolutely enough for any busy Nepalese bazaar.

Final Conclusion:

Integrating Solana in day-to-day use cases can be so much more beneficial, as I explained. These are the use cases of Solana in finance only (DeFi), but it can be used in many more domains like decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN), decentralized Exchanges (DeX), health systems, and many more. I hope the government of Nepal makes some new laws to integrate Solana in daily use cases. This can benefit local people, businesses, artists, and other professionals in daily use cases to a great extent.

If anyone wants to get started and contribute to the Solana ecosystem as a developer, then the following resources would be useful for them:

1. Solana Docs: Learn how the Solana blockchain works | Solana

2. Rust Docs: The Rust Programming Language - The Rust Programming Language

3. Anchor Docs: Introduction