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.
Read article16 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.
Read articleA 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.
Read articleA Guide to Testing Solana Programs
This guide explains how to test Solana programs, from theory to practical examples
Read articleA Hitchhiker's Guide to Solana Program Security
Learn about Solana program security and how to mitigate common vulnerabilities
Read articleA Short Introduction to DePIN
This short introduction will explain DePIN, its functions, and its applications, such as telecommunication, storage, maps, and computing.
Read articleAchieving 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
Read articleAgave 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
Read articleAgave 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.
Read articleAgave 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.
Read articleAgave 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.
Read articleAgave 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.
Read articleAgave 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.
Read articleAgave 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.
Read articleAll 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
Read articleAll 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.
Read articleAll 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
Read articleAll 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.
Read articleAll 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
Read articleAll You Need to Know About Solana’s New DAS API
Learn all about Solana's new DAS API and it's methods.
Read articleAlpenglow: 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
Read articleAn 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
Read articleAnalyzing 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.
Read articleArcium: 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.
Read articleAsynchronous 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
Read articleAt 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.
Read articleBitwise 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).
Read articleBringing Slashing to Solana
Programmatic slashing is making its way to Solana. Discover what is being proposed and how it will impact the network.
Read articleBuild 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.
Read articleBuild a Wallet Tracker on Solana
Everything you need to know to setup a wallet tracker on Solana with FluxRPC Webhooks.
Read articleBuilding 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.
Read articleConfidential Balances: Empowering Confidentiality in the Solana Ecosystem
Overview: Confidential Balances — new layers of confidentiality for asset owners and token issuers without sacrificing regulatory compliance.
Read articleConsensus on Solana
Contextualizing the Role of Proof-of-History within Slots in Tower BFT, Solana’s Consensus Mechanism
Read articleCreate 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.
Read articleCryptographic 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.
Read articleDoubleZero: 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.
Read articleEmbedded 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.
Read articleEngineering 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
Read articleExploring NFT Compression on Solana
This guide explains how to work with NFT Compression on Solana.
Read articleFluxRPC 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.
Read articleFrictionless 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.
Read articleFunding Announcement
With a $21.75M raise led by Haun Ventures & Founders Fund, we're boosting developers' economic potential via crypto.
Read articleFutarchy 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.
Read articleGaming: How Solana is Changing the Playfield
Learn about Web3 gaming and all the tools you need to get started building Solana-integrated games, today.
Read articleHardware 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
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow Solana RPCs Work
Demystify the inner workings of Solana RPCs, what makes them function, and how they differ from RPCs on Ethereum.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow to Deal with Blockhash Errors on Solana
This blog explains blockhash errors, their causes, and best practices for avoiding them.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow to Land Transactions on Solana
Learn why Solana transactions fail and follow these recommended best practices to improve landing rates and increase throughput.
Read articleHow to Migrate From Ethereum to Solana: A Guide for Devs
Learn everything you need to know to start programming in Solidity on Solana
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow to Mitigate Spam QUICkly: All You Need to Know About Solana and QUIC
Learn about QUIC and how it has improved Solana's network
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow to Monitor Solana Transactions Using Geyser Enhanced Websockets
This guide explains how to master Geyser Enhanced Websockets with simple and complex examples
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow to Set Up a Solana Validator
This guide explains how to set up a Solana validator with this step-by-step guide.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleHow 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.
Read articleInternet Capital Markets
Internet Capital Markets presents a reimagining of finance, radically reducing the barriers to issuing and owning assets.
Read articleIs Solana’s inflation too high?
A comprehensive analysis of Solana's inflation schedule and issuance.
Read articleLiquid Staking and LSTs on Solana
An exploration into the mechanics of LSTs on Solana.
Read articleListening to Onchain Events on Solana
Listening to On-chain Events on Solana with Geyser, Websockets, or Webhooks.
Read articleMeasuring Solana’s Decentralization: Facts and Figures
An analysis of Solana’s decentralization using verifiable data, comparing its metrics to other blockchains.
Read articleOn-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.
Read articleOptimizing Solana Programs
A guide on Solana program optimization, covering Anchor to low-level unsafe Rust, balancing performance, safety, and usability.
Read articleOverview: 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.
Read articleOverview: 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.
Read articleOverview: 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.
Read articleOverview: 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.
Read articleOverview:: Faster getProgramAccounts (gPA) Calls
This guide explains how to optimize your getProgramAccount (gPA) calls on Solana to get up to 10x faster results
Read articleOverview:: 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.
Read articleP-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.
Read articlePlug and Play Token Extensions
Build with Token Extensions on Solana Playground
Read articlePoseidon: Build Solana Programs with TypeScript
Poseidon is a new transpiler framework that empowers web developers to create Solana on-chain programs with TypeScript.
Read articlePriority Fees: Understanding Solana's Transaction Fee Mechanics
Learn about Solana's transaction fee mechanics, priority fees, and how to implement them programmatically.
Read articleProof 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
Read articlePublishing 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.
Read articleReal 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.
Read articleShopify & 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.
Read articleSIMD-228: A Critical Analysis
This report analyzes SIMD-228: Market-Based Emission Mechanism, assessing its potential effects and evaluating key arguments for and against.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana 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
Read articleSolana Builders: ZK Compression
Learn about ZK Compression — all its properties and caveats — with Overclock's dubbelosix
Read articleSolana Congestion: How to Best Send Solana Transactions
This guide covers strategies for successful transactions during congestion, including priority fees and optimization.
Read articleSolana Consulting and Advisory Services
Consult with FluxRPC before building on the Solana blockchain. Explore Solana advisory, Solana development services, and Solana launch strategies.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana Dev 101 - Deserializing Account Data on Solana
This guide explains how to deserialize raw account data on Solana.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana Dev 101 - How to Mint an NFT on Solana
This guide explains how to create and mint your own NFTs on Solana using JavaScript.
Read articleSolana 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
Read articleSolana Dev 101 - Mint SPL Tokens on Solana
This guide explains how to mint tokens on the Solana blockchain.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana Dev 101 — How to Transfer Solana Tokens with Typescript
This guide explains how to transfer an NFT or SPL Token on Solana using TypeScript.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana Executive Overview
An overview of Solana's core protocol, covering Gulf Stream, TPU, Turbine, consensus, gossip, and block verification.
Read articleSolana Fees in Theory and Practice
An exploration of Solana fees in theory and practice.
Read articleSolana 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
Read articleSolana 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
Read articleSolana 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
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana MEV: An Introduction
An introduction to MEV on Solana.
Read articleSolana NFT: Modifying Compressed NFTs (2023)
Learn to modify Solana NFTs that are set up through the compressed program.
Read articleSolana Nodes — A Primer on Solana RPCs, Validators, and RPC providers
Learn about Solana nodes, the different types, their importance, and the top RPC providers.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana Pay: All You Need To Know
Solana Pay is a standard protocol & set of reference implementations that enable decentralised payments.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana Transactions: Durable Nonces (2023)
This guide explains how to submit Solana transactions with Durable Nonces by sending an offline transaction using JavaScript.
Read articleSolana 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.
Read articleSolana’s Gulf Stream: Mo Mempool, Mo problems
An exploration of Gulf Stream, Solana's mempool-less transaction forwarding protocol
Read articleSolana’s Proprietary AMM Revolution
Learn all about proprietary AMMs, a new market-making primitive pioneered on Solana
Read articleSolana’s Stablecoin Landscape
We explore the stablecoin ecosystem on Solana, tracking adoption, highlighting the growing variety of tokens, and examining real-world use cases.
Read articleSolidity on Solana — What is Solang?
Solidity is now available for the Solana blockchain through Solang. Learn about it more here!
Read articleStablecoin 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.
Read articleStake-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
Read articleStaking 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.
Read articleThe 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%.
Read articleThe L1 vs L2 Landscape: Understanding the Design Differences, Tradeoffs, and Endgames
Understanding the L1 and L2 landscape from first principles.
Read articleThe 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.
Read articleThe 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.
Read articleThe 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.
Read articleToken Gating on Solana - A Solana Mobile Tutorial
Learn token-gating on Solana using the Saga Genesis Token.
Read articleTurbine: Block Propagation on Solana
Learn about Solana block propagation, its comparison to Ethereum, and future research on data availability.
Read articleUnderstanding Slots, Blocks, and Epochs on Solana
A deep dive on how Solana slots, blocks, and epochs work together.
Read articleUploading Files to Shadow Drive on Solana
This guide explains how to upload files to SHDW on Solana using TypeScript.
Read articleWhat are Solana Commitment Levels?
Understand Solana commitment levels. Processed, Confirmed, Finalized. Differences, use cases, and performance impacts.
Read articleWhat 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).
Read articleWhat 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.
Read articleWhat are Token Extensions?
A deep look into Token Extensions and how they will power the next generation of tokens on Solana.
Read articleWhat 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.
Read articleWhat 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.
Read articleWhat Would Solana Need to Change to Become Quantum Ready?
Post-quantum pathways for Solana, examining potential protocol and signature upgrades that could strengthen security.
Read articleWinning 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.
Read articleZero-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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