Solana Developer Guides

Guide to landing Solana transactions reliably: blockhash strategy, priority fees, retry logic and sending methods.

A developer's guide to choosing a Solana RPC provider: latency, rate limits, pricing models, staked connections, and what matters for your use case.

How Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade affects developers — faster finality, new APIs, and what to update in your code.

Guide to Solana RPC providers with European endpoints — latency considerations, data residency, and choosing the right EU node location.

Breakdown of Solana RPC pricing models — free tiers, credit-based, request-based, and flat-rate plans for developers and trading bots.

How to estimate, set, and optimize compute unit limits on Solana to reduce fees and improve transaction landing.

Best practices for retrying and confirming Solana transactions: blockhash management, polling, and avoiding duplicate sends.

How to choose and configure Solana RPC for trading bots — staked connections, latency optimization, transaction landing, and gRPC streaming.

Learn how Solana priority fees work, how to estimate them, and how to set compute unit price and limit for reliable transaction landing.

Compare dedicated vs. shared Solana RPC nodes: performance, cost, and when each makes sense.

How Firedancer changes Solana for developers: new TPS capacity, different validator behavior, and what to prepare for.

How to access historical transaction data, account snapshots, and block archives on Solana using RPC, indexers, and warehouse services.

Why getProgramAccounts is expensive and slow, and what to use instead for efficient data fetching on Solana.

How Jito bundles work on Solana, how to send tips, and when to use bundles vs. standard transaction sending.

How to access Hyperliquid market data, trade history, and orderbook information through the API.

How to parse and decode Solana transaction data, instructions, and inner instructions programmatically.

Techniques to minimize latency for Solana trading bots: colocation, connection reuse, pre-computation, and leader-aware routing.

How MEV works on Solana, the differences from Ethereum MEV, and how Jito's block engine shapes the landscape.

How to access Polymarket prediction market data, odds, and trade history through APIs and on-chain data.

How to interact with Pump.fun programmatically: creating tokens, buying, selling, and monitoring new launches.

How to access Pump.fun historical trade data, token launches, and bonding curve activity on Solana.

How to build reliable Solana applications with RPC failover, load balancing, and multi-provider strategies.

How Solana RPC rate limits work, how to detect them, and strategies to stay within limits or work around them.

How to access historical swap data from Solana DEXes like Jupiter, Raydium, and Orca using indexers and Geyser streams.

Hardware requirements, costs, and setup considerations for running your own Solana RPC node.

A practical guide to migrating your Solana TypeScript code from @solana/web3.js 1.x to the new @solana/kit SDK.

How Solana's Stake-Weighted Quality of Service (SWQoS) works and why staked connections improve transaction landing.

How to set up Solana devnet and local validator testing for transactions, programs, and dApps.

How to send Solana transactions directly to the leader's TPU via QUIC for lower latency and higher landing rates.

How to use Token-2022 (Token Extensions) on Solana: transfer fees, confidential transfers, metadata, and more.

Design patterns for Solana trading bots: data ingestion, decision logic, execution paths, and infrastructure considerations.

How to use versioned transactions (v0) and Address Lookup Tables to fit more accounts in a single Solana transaction.

How to build reliable WebSocket connections for Solana: reconnection, subscription management, and provider selection.