Gasless Portfolio Automation on Solana with Glider
Automated gasless strategies are live on Solana, powered by Swig
The promise of DeFi has always been simple: democratized access to core financial services for everyone. In reality, using DeFi requires jumping through a hoop of steps that affects everyday, non-technical investors. To manage an active onchain portfolio, you've needed to store seed phrases, sign transaction popups, and manually transfer/rebalance positions yourself. You've also had to maintain an inventory of native gas tokens to pay network fees for every single trade. This friction has stifled broader crypto adoption.
Today, that changes. We're excited to announce Glider is bringing automated, gasless portfolio strategies to Solana, powered by Swig smart wallets.
What is Glider?
Glider is a leading DeFi portfolio automation platform that lets users set sophisticated set-it-and-forget-it investment strategies. Glider abstracts the typical frictions of DeFi completely from the user's view. Users can invest gaslessly without network fees or transaction signing as Glider executes auto-rebalancing portfolios based on target parameters. For example, users can run an auto-rebalancing SOL LST strategy of equal-weighted mSOL/JitoSOL/stSOL without signing.
Glider's no-code strategy builder templates bring sophisticated algorithmic trading to everyday investors. Its strategies let users maintain specific asset ratios (e.g., 70% SOL / 30% USDC) that rebalance upon various trigger logic. Glider runs these strategies 24/7 in the background.
Glider is now live on both Solana and Base.
Where Swig comes in
By leveraging Swig self-custody smart wallets, session keys, and dynamic subaccounts, Glider can automatically rebalance assets and shift positions. Glider handles execution, so users can focus 100% on trading strategy.
Users always maintain custody while Glider acts as an execution authority because of Swig's unique smart wallet design. Traditional Solana wallets are externally owned accounts (EOAs) – simple key pairs with no built-in logic. To automate anything, you'd need to give up custody or manually approve every transaction.
With Swig smart accounts, users get hyper-programmable self-custody wallets with secure, delegated execution. Swig enables:
Programmable permissions: Users can grant Glider as an authority on their Swig to execute specific actions (like rebalancing within parameters) without giving full control over your assets. On a single Swig, developers can add up to 65K authorities.
Gasless execution: Swig's paymaster sponsors transaction fees and ATA rent, so Glider's strategies run without the user needing to constantly top up SOL.
Performance without compromise: Swig operates at ~5-10k compute units per transfer – far more efficient than alternative smart wallet solutions (which often require over 25K CU and 10+ accounts).
Dynamic Subaccounts: Your Glider strategies run in isolated subaccounts tied to your main Swig wallet, keeping your portfolio organized and risk-managed.
What Glider's Co-founders Are Saying
Glider’s partnership with Swig was essential to unblocking their launch on Solana. Previously, the smart wallet infrastructure they needed to streamline automated trading strategies wasn't available. We’re also grateful to the Unboxed team’s partnership during the integration.
"We obsess over making DeFi accessible for the average person," said Brian Huang, co-founder of Glider. "Swig's powerful smart wallet infrastructure helps us remove UX friction while keeping the flexibility and control we need to execute complex DeFi strategies."
John Johnson, co-founder of Glider, says, "Swig's programmable roles and authorities structure unlocks sophisticated trading strategies. We chose to work with Swig because their SDKs minimize dependencies on hosted infrastructure, which provided us with greater uptime assurances.”
The Glider <> Swig partnership is a new dawn for DeFi on Solana — sophisticated automation without compromising on self-custody, and simplicity without sacrificing UX.
Build on Swig today
Swig's open source smart wallet SDKs are available now in TypeScript and Rust (build.onswig.com). We encourage builders to reach out on X (@onswig) with any questions or feedback.
The age of smart accounts has arrived. Welcome to the future of Solana DeFi.