FluxRPC Blog

Articles on Solana infrastructure, performance, and developer workflows.

$TRUMP’s Historic Weekend on Solana: Records, Trends, and Insights

January 18th and 19th, 2025 was a historic weekend for Solana. Discover the record-breaking activity, trends, and insights.

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16 U.S. Solana Spot ETFs: Approvals, Fees, Tickers, S1s

After months of growing investor excitement, U.S.-listed Solana Spot ETFs are launching marking a major milestone for Solana's presence in traditional markets.

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A Complete History of Solana Outages: Causes, Fixes, and Lessons Learnt

This write-up analyzes every Solana outage incident in detail, examining the root causes, triggering events, and the measures taken to resolve them.

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A Guide to Testing Solana Programs

This guide explains how to test Solana programs, from theory to practical examples

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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Solana Program Security

Learn about Solana program security and how to mitigate common vulnerabilities

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A Short Introduction to DePIN

This short introduction will explain DePIN, its functions, and its applications, such as telecommunication, storage, maps, and computing.

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Achieving Zero-Slot Execution with FluxRPC

This guide explains how to achieve zero-slot execution with FluxRPC and FluxRPC, a unified workflow that turns signals into profitable opportunities

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Agave 2.0 Transition: A Developer Guide

FluxRPC strongly recommends our developer community to review the following changes before the Agave 2.0 Mainnet-Beta client release

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Agave 3.0 Update: All You Need to Know

A roundup of the most important features and performance upgrades in the Solana Agave 3.0 validator client release.

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Agave 3.1 Update: All You Need to Know

A roundup of the most important features and performance upgrades in the Solana Agave 3.0 validator client release.

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Agave v2.0 Update All You Need to Know

Summary of key Solana Agave 2.0 features and optimizations, including syscalls, economic changes, and ZK ElGamal Proof.

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Agave v2.1 Update: All You Need to Know

A summary of all the key release cycle features and optimizations to watch out for with the Solana Agave 2.1 client update.

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Agave v2.2 Update: All You Need to Know

A roundup of the most important features and performance upgrades in the Solana Agave 2.2 validator client release.

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Agave v2.3 Update: All You Need to Know

Catch all the key release cycle features and optimizations to watch out for with the Solana Agave 2.3 client update.

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All You Need to Know About Compression on Solana

Learn about state compression, compressed NFTs (cNFTs), as well as how to fetch, mint or transfer them from our most comprehensive article yet

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All You Need to Know About Solana RPCs (2023)

Demystify the inner workings of Solana RPCs, what makes them function, and how they differ from RPCs on other networks.

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All You Need to Know About Solana's v1.16 Update

Learn about Solana's v1.16 update, the latest upgrade to the Solana Labs validator client

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All You Need to Know About Solana's v1.17 Update

Learn about Solana's v1.17 update, the latest upgrade to the Solana Labs validator client, as well as the recent February network outage.

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All You Need to Know About Solana's v1.18 Update

Learn about the latest update to the Solana Labs (now Agave) client, as well as the new central scheduler

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All You Need to Know About Solana’s New DAS API

Learn all about Solana's new DAS API and it's methods.

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Alpenglow: Solana's Great Consensus Rewrite

Learn about Alpenglow, Solana's consensus rewrite, how it works, its performance, security and fault-tolerance, impact, risks and open questions

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An Introduction to Anchor: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Solana Programs

Learn everything you need to know to get started building on Solana with Anchor

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Analyzing Solana On-chain Data: Tools & Dashboards

This guide gives new analysts an overview of tools for accessing Solana data including tools for streaming data, historical analysis, and on-chain metrics.

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Arcium: Privacy 2.0 for Solana

Privacy 2.0 introduces a new paradigm—where shared private state unlocks an entirely new whitespace for on-chain applications.

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Asynchronous Program Execution: Dawn of a New Solana APE-och

A detailed examination of Async Execution, a major protocol update championed by Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko

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At The Edge Of Determinism: Transaction Lifecycle in Solana Sealevel and Sui Object Runtime

Learn how Solana transactions are created, submitted, propagated, executed, and validated compared to Sui's object runtime.

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Bitwise Selects FluxRPC as Exclusive SOL Staking Provider

Bitwise selects FluxRPC as the exclusive SOL staking provider to run their Bitwise Onchain Solutions validator for the Solana Staking ETF (NYSE: BSOL).

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Bringing Slashing to Solana

Programmatic slashing is making its way to Solana. Discover what is being proposed and how it will impact the network.

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Build a cNFT Minter Mobile App in Under 5 Minutes

This tutorial explains building an Android app to capture images and mint compressed NFTs on Solana.

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Build a Wallet Tracker on Solana

Everything you need to know to setup a wallet tracker on Solana with FluxRPC Webhooks.

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Building Permissioned Blockchains with Solana Permissioned Environments

This write-up dives into Solana’s ecosystem of private appchains, tailored for enterprise-grade performance and regulatory compliance.

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Confidential Balances: Empowering Confidentiality in the Solana Ecosystem

Overview: Confidential Balances — new layers of confidentiality for asset owners and token issuers without sacrificing regulatory compliance.

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Consensus on Solana

Contextualizing the Role of Proof-of-History within Slots in Tower BFT, Solana’s Consensus Mechanism

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Create a Solana Telegram Bot in Less Than 100 Lines of Code

This guide demonstrates how to create a customizable Telegram bot that tracks real-time events using FluxRPC webhooks and Cloudflare Workers.

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Cryptographic Tools 101 - Hash Functions and Merkle Trees Explained

Learn the fundamentals of cryptographic primitives, and how primitives such as hash functions and Merkle trees are essential to blockchains.

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DoubleZero: A Faster Internet

DoubleZero is building a fast global fiber optic network to meet the demands of high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems including Solana.

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Embedded MPC Wallets for Payments Apps on Solana

Learn how embedded MPC wallets work on Solana. Get step-by-step instructions for integrating them in your stablecoin application with Portal.

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Engineering Velocity: Inside Anza’s Performance Team with Alessandro Decina

An interview with Alessandro Decina, who leads Anza's performance team, on making the fastest blockchain in existence even faster

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Exploring NFT Compression on Solana

This guide explains how to work with NFT Compression on Solana.

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FluxRPC Receives SOC 2 Type II Certification

FluxRPC is now SOC 2 Type II certified. The audit was performed by Sensiba LLP. Visit our Trust Center to request a copy of our audit.

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Frictionless and secure UX: the tech stack onboarding millions of users to Solana

This guide explains how to build seamless onchain user experiences with Privy's embedded wallets, gasless transactions, onramps, and native bridging.

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Funding Announcement

With a $21.75M raise led by Haun Ventures & Founders Fund, we're boosting developers' economic potential via crypto.

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Futarchy and Governance: Prediction Markets Meet DAOs on Solana

Learn about Futarchy, how it works, and how it's being implemented on Solana via the Meta-DAO.

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Gaming: How Solana is Changing the Playfield

Learn about Web3 gaming and all the tools you need to get started building Solana-integrated games, today.

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Hardware as Ideology: An Interview with Austin Federa

An interview with Austin Federa, co-founder of DoubleZero, on hardware, Solana, and creating a new Internet for the next era of blockchains

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How DFlow Uses FluxRPC to Quote Solana's Best Prices

Learn how DFlow uses FluxRPC to offer Solana market makers the best prices, tightest spreads, and lowest latency routes.

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How Solana RPCs Work

Demystify the inner workings of Solana RPCs, what makes them function, and how they differ from RPCs on Ethereum.

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How to Build a Secure AI Agent on Solana

This guide explains how to build an AI Agent that can access its own Solana wallet without compromising security using Turnkey's policy-controlled credentials.

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How to Build a Solana Data Dashboard with Dune

This guide explains how to build a comprehensive Solana dashboard, leveraging real-time metrics, historical trends, and decoded program data.

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How to build a Solana Portfolio Viewer with Next.js and FluxRPC's DAS API

This guide explains how to integrate the DAS API into a front-end application to build a portfolio viewer for showcasing both NFTs and SPL tokens.

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How to Build Mobile Apps with Send’s Solana AppKit

Overview: the Solana AppKit — an open-source React Native toolkit for building iOS and Android apps on Solana, with 18+ protocol integrations.

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How to Build Solana Apps with Gill

This guide explains how to develop Solana apps with Gill, a modern and developer-friendly JavaScript/TypeScript client library for interacting with the Solana blockchain.

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How to Build Solana Programs with Pinocchio

Develop Solana programs with Pinocchio. Learn how Pinocchio works and compare Pinocchio vs. Anchor vs. Steel. Includes a tutorial on creating a Solana token.

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How to Deal with Blockhash Errors on Solana

This blog explains blockhash errors, their causes, and best practices for avoiding them.

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How to Fetch Newly Minted Tokens with FluxRPC

This write-up explores how tokens are created on Solana, what SPL tokens are, and how to monitor new tokens and fetch their metadata using FluxRPC.

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How to Get Token Holders on Solana

This guide explains how to retrieve all holders of a fungible token like USDC for tracking or airdrop purposes.

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How to Land Transactions on Solana

Learn why Solana transactions fail and follow these recommended best practices to improve landing rates and increase throughput.

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How to Migrate From Ethereum to Solana: A Guide for Devs

Learn everything you need to know to start programming in Solidity on Solana

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How to Mine Ore: A Beginner-Friendly Guide

This write-up explores Proof of Work, Bitcoin mining origins, and compares it to ORE mining via web app and CLI.

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How to Mitigate Spam QUICkly: All You Need to Know About Solana and QUIC

Learn about QUIC and how it has improved Solana's network

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How to Monitor a Raydium Liquidity Pool

Liquidity pools enable crypto trading on DEXs and other DeFi platforms. Learn to monitor them using webhooks and websockets in this article.

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How to Monitor Solana Transactions Using Geyser Enhanced Websockets

This guide explains how to master Geyser Enhanced Websockets with simple and complex examples

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How to set up a Solana Telegram bot

This guide explains how to set up a Telegram bot that sends updates relating to on-chain activities with FluxRPC webhooks.

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How to Set Up a Solana Validator

This guide explains how to set up a Solana validator with this step-by-step guide.

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How to Stake SOL on Solana

This guide explains how to natively stake SOL, how Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) like FluxRPC work, and how staking improves the Solana network.

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How to Start Building with the Solana Web3.js 2.0 SDK

Anza Labs launched Web3.js 2.0 SDK with modern JavaScript features. This write-up covers updates and a transaction example.

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How to Turn Your Idea into a Solana Program (Smart Contract)

We’ll use a Polymarket-style prediction market on Solana to show how to transform concepts into accounts, store tokens, and optimize performance.

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How to Use AI to Build Solana Apps

This guide explains how to use AI programming tools to build Solana applications. Discover tips and engineering prompts to accelerate development cycles.

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How to Write Solana Programs with SBPF Assembly

Learn about sBPF's virtual machine architecture, instruction set, and memory model. Then follow a simple SBPF Assembly tutorial to deploy your first program.

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Internet Capital Markets

Internet Capital Markets presents a reimagining of finance, radically reducing the barriers to issuing and owning assets.

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Is Solana’s inflation too high?

A comprehensive analysis of Solana's inflation schedule and issuance.

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Liquid Staking and LSTs on Solana

An exploration into the mechanics of LSTs on Solana.

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Listening to Onchain Events on Solana

Listening to On-chain Events on Solana with Geyser, Websockets, or Webhooks.

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Measuring Solana’s Decentralization: Facts and Figures

An analysis of Solana’s decentralization using verifiable data, comparing its metrics to other blockchains.

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On-Chain Proof Storage in DePIN: Sector Patterns, Drivers, and the Coming Wave of Adoption

Learn why proof storage matters for data aggregation and service-based DePINs. Compare frameworks, read case studies, and decide which method is right for you.

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Optimizing Solana Programs

A guide on Solana program optimization, covering Anchor to low-level unsafe Rust, balancing performance, safety, and usability.

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Overview: FluxRPC: A Solana Devnet Alternative

Learn how FluxRPC and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is improving the way Solana developers test and deploy programs on Devnet and Mainnet-beta.

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Overview: FluxRPC’s Solana Devnet Faucet

Access the Solana Devnet faucet in your dashboard. Claim Devnet SOL through the UI or request an airdrop through the Solana CLI.

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Overview: Kite: the Modern Solana TypeScript Framework

Kite leverages the speed and elegance of Solana web3.js version 2 but allows you to do most common Solana tasks in a single function.

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Overview: the Builder Series Guest Blog Program

Launch products. Educate developers. Build authority within the Solana ecosystem. This guide explains how to pitch articles and get featured on the FluxRPC.

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Overview:: Faster getProgramAccounts (gPA) Calls

This guide explains how to optimize your getProgramAccount (gPA) calls on Solana to get up to 10x faster results

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Overview:: Next-Generation Enhanced WebSockets

Enhanced WebSockets are now powered by the same infra that powers FluxRPC, our next-generation gRPC streaming service built for speed and fault-tolerance.

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P-Token: Solana’s Next Big Efficiency Unlock

P-token is a new drop-in replacement for the SPL Token program that delivers an impressive 95%+ reduction in compute unit consumption.

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Plug and Play Token Extensions

Build with Token Extensions on Solana Playground

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Poseidon: Build Solana Programs with TypeScript

Poseidon is a new transpiler framework that empowers web developers to create Solana on-chain programs with TypeScript.

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Priority Fees: Understanding Solana's Transaction Fee Mechanics

Learn about Solana's transaction fee mechanics, priority fees, and how to implement them programmatically.

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Proof of History, Proof of Stake, Proof of Work - Explained

Learn about consensus algorithms, their importance, how they coordinate network participants, and the importance of time in blockchain technology

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Publishing Solana Mobile Apps: A How To Guide

Learn the process of publishing a Solana Mobile dApp, from material preparation to submitting to the dApp store.

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Real World Assets on Solana: A Comprehensive Overview

An overview of the Solana real world asset landscape, showcasing the growing diversity of RWA offerings and their practical applications.

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Shopify & Solana Pay: Step-by-Step Guide (2023)

We demonstrate how to integrate Solana Pay into a Shopify store - looking over both the merchant set up & customer checkout flow.

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SIMD-228: A Critical Analysis

This report analyzes SIMD-228: Market-Based Emission Mechanism, assessing its potential effects and evaluating key arguments for and against.

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Solana App Onboarding: The Case for Embedded Wallets

This guide explains how to add embedded wallets to your Solana application and quickly onboard new users who may not already have a self-custodial wallet.

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Solana Arithmetic: Best Practices for Building Financial Apps

This guide explains how to safely perform mathematical operations on Solana tokens, including calculating interest, rounding numbers, and more.

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Solana Builders - Ore: A New International Money

Learn about Ore, a Bitcoin-like peer-to-peer electronic currency implemented as a program atop Solana, with kel xyz

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Solana Builders: ZK Compression

Learn about ZK Compression — all its properties and caveats — with Overclock's dubbelosix

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Solana Congestion: How to Best Send Solana Transactions

This guide covers strategies for successful transactions during congestion, including priority fees and optimization.

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Solana Consulting and Advisory Services

Consult with FluxRPC before building on the Solana blockchain. Explore Solana advisory, Solana development services, and Solana launch strategies.

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Solana DeFi: Jupiter Swap UI (2023)

Start your Solana DeFi journey by building a Jupiter Swap app. Learn the UX flow of adding a Jupiter Swap component into your application.

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Solana Dev 101 - Creating a SvelteKit App with the New DAS API

This guide explains how to display NFTs on SvelteKit using the DAS API's new SDK.

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Solana Dev 101 - Deserializing Account Data on Solana

This guide explains how to deserialize raw account data on Solana.

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Solana Dev 101 - Email Notifications for dApps

Vercel backend and Replit designed to receive onchain Solana data from FluxRPC’ webhooks and send a message to a given email in real time.

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Solana Dev 101 - File system wallets + How to create a custom wallet

This blog aims to shed light on what file system wallets are, how to create them, and how to utilize them.

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Solana Dev 101 - How to Create a Solana Transaction

This guide explains how to create and send a transaction with Javascript on Solana. This is a beginner-friendly guide, so don't worry if you're new to Solana.

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Solana Dev 101 - How to Mint an NFT on Solana

This guide explains how to create and mint your own NFTs on Solana using JavaScript.

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Solana Dev 101 - Making a Solana Discord Bot with Webhooks

This guide explains how to create a Discord sales bot for an NFT collection on Solana using FluxRPC's Webhooks

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Solana Dev 101 - Mint SPL Tokens on Solana

This guide explains how to mint tokens on the Solana blockchain.

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Solana Dev 101 - Using DAS API For Fetching all NFTs in a Collection

Use the DAS API to fetch all NFTs in a Solana collection using JavaScript.

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Solana Dev 101 — How to Transfer Solana Tokens with Typescript

This guide explains how to transfer an NFT or SPL Token on Solana using TypeScript.

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Solana Dev101- How to get the holders of an NFT collection (Snapshot)

This guide explains how to get all the owners of an NFT collection on Solana.

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Solana Executive Overview

An overview of Solana's core protocol, covering Gulf Stream, TPU, Turbine, consensus, gossip, and block verification.

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Solana Fees in Theory and Practice

An exploration of Solana fees in theory and practice.

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Solana for Enterprise: Reasons and Use Cases

Learn why Solana is a strong contender for enterprise adoption, as well as why both new and established projects are choosing Solana

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Solana Frames: Minting a cNFT on Farcaster

Learn about Farcaster, Frames, and how to create a Frame that mints a cNFT to a user's verified Solana address

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Solana Geyser Plugins: Streaming Data at the Speed of Light

Learn about Solana Geyser Plugins — how they work, how to make your own, and the streaming services FluxRPC offers

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Solana Governance: A Comprehensive Analysis

This report provides a detailed overview of Solana's governance framework, tracing its evolution and explaining how decisions are proposed, evaluated, and implemented.

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Solana Hacks, Bugs, and Exploits: A Complete History

Explore the cause, impact, and fix for 35+ Solana application exploits, supply chain attacks, network incidents, and protocol vulnerabilities.

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Solana MEV Report: Trends, Insights, and Challenges

Explore the current Solana MEV landscape with concrete examples and quantifiable, contextual data to illustrate the scope and impact of MEV.

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Solana MEV: An Introduction

An introduction to MEV on Solana.

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Solana NFT: Modifying Compressed NFTs (2023)

Learn to modify Solana NFTs that are set up through the compressed program.

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Solana Nodes — A Primer on Solana RPCs, Validators, and RPC providers

Learn about Solana nodes, the different types, their importance, and the top RPC providers.

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Solana Passkeys: The Future of Crypto Wallet UX

This guide explains how to use passkeys on Solana to accelerate onboarding, eliminate the risk of losing seed phrases, and improve wallet UX.

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Solana Pay: All You Need To Know

Solana Pay is a standard protocol & set of reference implementations that enable decentralised payments.

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Solana Staking Simplified: A Complete Guide to SOL Staking

A concise overview of staking SOL. We answer the most common questions and cover all the key areas you need to know.

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Solana Staking Taxes and Reporting Guide

Learn about how Solana staking rewards are taxed, taxable events, tax advantages of LSTs, managing tax liabilities, reporting staking income, and tax software.

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Solana Transactions: Durable Nonces (2023)

This guide explains how to submit Solana transactions with Durable Nonces by sending an offline transaction using JavaScript.

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Solana Validator Economics: A Primer

Learn how validators earn revenue through fees, tips, and issuance, how they distribute rewards, and the costs to operate a validator.

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Solana’s Gulf Stream: Mo Mempool, Mo problems

An exploration of Gulf Stream, Solana's mempool-less transaction forwarding protocol

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Solana’s Proprietary AMM Revolution

Learn all about proprietary AMMs, a new market-making primitive pioneered on Solana

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Solana’s Stablecoin Landscape

We explore the stablecoin ecosystem on Solana, tracking adoption, highlighting the growing variety of tokens, and examining real-world use cases.

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Solidity on Solana — What is Solang?

Solidity is now available for the Solana blockchain through Solang. Learn about it more here!

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Stablecoin Payments Guide for Fintechs & Financial Institutions

Digital dollars are reshaping the global payments market. Explore stablecoin use cases, benefits, issuers, and the best blockchains for stablecoin apps.

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Stake-Weighted Quality of Service: Everything You Need to Know

Learn about Stake-Weighted Quality of Service (SWQoS), how Solana processes transactions, and the growing importance of validators and stake

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Staking with FluxRPC Is Now Supported on BitGo

BitGo customers can now maximize their institutional staking rewards on Solana by delegating stake to FluxRPC’s 0% commission, 0% fee validator.

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The Cheapest Way to Airdrop Solana Tokens

Discover how to send Solana airdrops at scale without draining your budget. This guide compares the traditional approach, details where costs come from, and shows how zero-knowledge (ZK) compression cuts fees by over 95%.

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The L1 vs L2 Landscape: Understanding the Design Differences, Tradeoffs, and Endgames

Understanding the L1 and L2 landscape from first principles.

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The Solana Foundation Delegation Program & the Challenges Facing Long-tail Validators

Report analyzing the effects of the Solana Foundation's Delegation Program (SFDP) and the challenges facing Solana's long-tail validators.

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The Solana Programming Model: An Introduction to Developing on Solana

Learn about the complexities of Solana's architecture, the role of accounts, and how transactions facilitate on-chain interactions.

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The Truth about Solana Local Fee Markets

This write-up provides an accessible analysis of the current state of Solana's local fee markets and what needs to improve.

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Token Gating on Solana - A Solana Mobile Tutorial

Learn token-gating on Solana using the Saga Genesis Token.

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Turbine: Block Propagation on Solana

Learn about Solana block propagation, its comparison to Ethereum, and future research on data availability.

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Understanding Slots, Blocks, and Epochs on Solana

A deep dive on how Solana slots, blocks, and epochs work together.

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Uploading Files to Shadow Drive on Solana

This guide explains how to upload files to SHDW on Solana using TypeScript.

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What are Solana Commitment Levels?

Understand Solana commitment levels. Processed, Confirmed, Finalized. Differences, use cases, and performance impacts.

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What are Solana PDAs? Explanation & Examples (2026)

Learn how Program Derived Addresses (PDAs) work, and review four examples of how they are used to store data for Solana programs (smart contracts).

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What are Solana Smart Wallets? Comparison & Implementation Guide

Learn how Solana smart wallets work, compare different embedded wallet providers, and follow our step-by-step guide to integrate them in your app.

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What are Token Extensions?

A deep look into Token Extensions and how they will power the next generation of tokens on Solana.

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What is Firedancer? A Deep Dive into Solana 2.0

Learn everything you need to know about Firedancer, Solana's new independent validator client developed by Jump.

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What is the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)?

Learn how the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) works: from Rust source compiling through LLVM to sBPF bytecode, to how the SVM executes transactions.

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What Would Solana Need to Change to Become Quantum Ready?

Post-quantum pathways for Solana, examining potential protocol and signature upgrades that could strengthen security.

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Winning the Millisecond Game: Shreds, FluxRPC, and the Edge of Solana

Learn how Solana shreds work, compare shred delivery latency across Solana validators and data streaming solutions, and see how FluxRPC gives you an edge.

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Zero-Knowledge Proofs: An Introduction to the Fundamentals

Learn the theory, mathematics, and cryptography that power the most powerful devised by cryptographers — zero-knowledge proofs.

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