Skip to main content
Sign in

Dialect

avoid.net/dialect→69/100·78% conf.
[VERIFIED]

Auto-generated score, not yet verified against the scoring model. Under review — treat as indicative, not a verdict.

anchored·2pjyzF…XSYV

Summary

Dialect (dialect.to) is a Solana-focused smart messaging and infrastructure company best known for co-developing the Blinks (Blockchain Links) and Actions standard with the Solana Foundation, launched in June 2024. Founded in 2021 by Chris Osborn, a named founder with a verifiable academic and professional background, the company raised a $4.1M seed round in March 2022 led by Multicoin Capital and Jump Crypto. No regulatory actions, fraud allegations, or confirmed security incidents specific to Dialect have been documented; the principal risk surface is the Blinks protocol itself, which introduces phishing and malicious-endpoint attack vectors that Dialect attempts to mitigate through a public registry of verified actions.

Connected Entities

1 entities · 10 linked investigations
Organizations
□Dialect
Relationships
  • + 1 more
Also appears in
Saga EVM Blockchain·32Mach-O Man Malware Campaign (Lazarus / Chollima)·0Q2 2026 DeFi Record Hack Wave·0Luiz Carlos Capuci Jr.·0Gamma Strategies·28Bunni Protocol·28BitGrail·2BonkDAO Treasury Governance Attack (July 2026)·0Lulo·55Thorchain DEX·28
Have evidence about Dialect?

Timeline(11 events)

2019

Dialect Labs founded by Chris Osborn in New York.

Y Combinator Company Profile

August 2020

Dialect participates in Y Combinator Summer 2020 batch as Cache Finance, a consumer investing product, before pivoting to Web3 messaging on Solana.

Solana Validated Podcast Ep. 64

October 2021

Chris Osborn founds Dialect Labs, pivoting focus to Solana smart messaging.

The Org / LinkedIn

2 March 2022

Dialect raises $4.1M seed round co-led by Multicoin Capital and Jump Crypto, with participation from Solana Ventures, Tiger Global, and others. Launches smart messaging protocol on Solana mainnet.

CoinDesk

December 2022

Dialect releases first compressed NFT stickers, using Solana state compression to reduce minting costs by up to 2,000x.

Solana Foundation Case Study

24 January 2024

Dialect launches Dialect Operator, a conversational Telegram trading bot for Solana token swaps using natural language and ChatGPT integration.

CoinDesk

25 June 2024

Solana Foundation and Dialect jointly launch Blinks (Blockchain Links) and Actions standard. Within one week, over 250 Blinks are built and submitted to the registry.

Solana Foundation

July 2024

Dialect introduces the Blinks Public Registry, listing all submitted, registered, and blocked Blinks. Over 100 actions approved at launch; Blowfish integrated for automated threat detection.

Dialect Labs Medium

5 July 2024

OKX Wallet adds Blinks support for Solana, enabling token trading and NFT transactions directly within X and Discord, citing a collaboration with Dialect.

GlobeNewswire

15 August 2024

OKX Wallet extends Blinks beyond Solana to all EVM-compatible chains, making it the first multi-chain wallet to do so, in collaboration with Dialect.

GlobeNewswire

19 May 2025

At Solana Accelerate 2025 (New York), Chris Osborn presents new Blinks and mobile alert stack developments. Dialect reports over 100 million alerts sent via its notification infrastructure.

Solana Compass
Provenance & Audit Trail
Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain17 Wayback Archives

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (5 events). 17 of 18 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

full audit log →version history →

model: claude-sonnet-4-6

generated: 6/1/2026, 3:12:41 AM

last updated: 7/26/2026, 2:10:29 PM

avoid.net — verified advice for a post-truth world