Minimizing the amount of compute a program uses is critical both for the performance and cost of executing transactions. This guide will show you how to optimize compute usage in your programs on Solana.

How to Optimize Compute Usage on Solana

Learn about the key differences between the SVM and EVM development environments and start building with Solana.

EVM to SVM: Understanding Solana for EVM developers

Solana developer quickstart guide to learn how to set up, build, and deploy your first Solana program using only your browser with Solana Playground.

Introduction to Solana development

Intro to Solana development (using only your browser)

By auto approving transactions dApps and games can create a more fluid user experience. This is especially interesting for on-chain games.

How to auto approve transactions on Solana

How to auto approve transactions

Learn how to to use transaction simulation to get the compute units consumed and build an optimal transaction.

How to Request Optimal Compute Budget

Priority Fees are a new feature on Solana that allow you to specify an additional fee to your transactions. These fees help make your transaction more economically compelling to include in a block.

How to use Priority Fees on Solana

One-stop shop for Solana's Durable Nonces: an easy way to power your Solana dapps

Durable & Offline Transaction Signing using Nonces

Stake-weighed QoS (Quality-of-Service) is an implementation feature which, when enabled, allows leaders (block producers) to identify and prioritize transactions proxied through a staked validator as an additional sybil resistance mechanism.

Stake-weighted Quality of Service on Solana

A Guide to Stake-weighted Quality of Service on Solana

Testing programs is important. Bankrun offers a lightweight alternative to the local validator for testing Solana programs and enables features like custom account data and time travel. Tests can be up to 10 times faster using bankrun.

Speed up Solana program tests with Jest and Bankrun

Verified builds is a way to link your program to its source code and let everyone independently verify that the program was indeed built from that provided source code.

How to Verify a Program

Solana developer quickstart guide to learn how to create a React Native mobile app that is both Android and iOS compatible. This app will mimic a cash app experience but run on the Solana blockchain, showcasing that web3 products can have the same user experience as web2 products. To build this, we will need to write an Anchor program, integrate the Solana Name Service SDK, and integrate Solana pay.

Cash App on Solana

Solana developer quickstart guide to learn how to create a basic CRUD dApp on the Solana blockchain with a simple journal program and interact with the program via a UI.

How to create a CRUD dApp on Solana

While each DePIN network has a unique product focus, most DePIN networks utilize Solana for a common set of use-cases. This guide is meant to help builders get oriented to common onchain DePIN use-cases.

DePIN Quickstart Guide

Learn how to build an on-chain energy system for a game, allowing players to expend energy to perform actions, refilling it over time.

Build an Energy System for Casual Games on Solana

A list of open source games and examples on Solana with tutorials to get you started.

Solana Game Development Examples

A list of Solana Gaming SDKs to get you started creating your first Solana Game

Solana Gaming SDKs

Learn how to build games on Solana. Solana is well built for web3 games of all genres utilizing speed, low fees, and more to create an amazing gaming experience

Getting started with game development on Solana

Get started building Solana games with a basic adventure game using the Anchor framework.

Hello World for Solana Game Development

Learn how to use tokens in Solana games with an on-chain tutorial

How to interact with tokens in programs

NFTs can be a powerful tool in blockchain games. Learn how to utilize NFTs in Solana games to their full potential.

Using NFTs and Digital Assets in Games

Using Anchor IDL you can interact with your program directly from unity

Port Anchor to Unity

How to save the state of a game in a Solana program

Saving game state

Using PDAs, you can reward SOL to players playing your game. Learn how to reward SOL from a PDA when players find chests in this game.

Storing SOL in a PDA

Learn how to write Solana Programs with CosmWasm Experience

CosmWasm Smart Contracts to Solana Programs

Learn how to build a full-stack Solana dApp with React and Anchor

Full-stack Solana development with React and Anchor

Learn to implement Cross Program Invocations (CPI) with a PDA Signer in Solana programs using the Anchor framework

How to CPI with a PDA Signer in a Solana program

Learn how to implement Cross Program Invocations (CPI) in Solana programs using the Anchor framework

How to CPI in a Solana program

Create a token on Solana

This guide provides a basic overview on how to develop onchain programs using the Rust programming language.

How to write a Native Rust Program

This quickstart guide will demonstrate how to quickly setup, build, and deploy your first Rust based Solana program to the blockchain.

Setup, build, and deploy a Solana program locally in Rust

Learn how to start building on Solana as a Rust Engineer

Getting started with Solana with Rust Experience

A quickstart guide to scaffolding projects using React/NextJS and Anchor - useful for hackathons!

Scaffold web and Anchor Project

Scaffolding your web and Anchor project on Solana

How to run localnet on your computer by using the Solana test validator for local development.

Solana Test Validator Guide

A list of the most common ways to get devnet and testnet SOL tokens for Solana development. Including: airdrop, web3.js, POW faucet, and more.

Faucets: How to get Solana devnet SOL

How to get Solana devnet SOL (including airdrops and faucets)

What is a crypto wallet? They do not actually store your crypto. They store a secret key that allows you to prove you own an address on a blockchain.

Wallets Explained

Compressed NFTs use the Bubblegum program from Metaplex to cheaply and securely store NFT metadata using State Compression on Solana.

Creating Compressed NFTs with JavaScript

Learn more about GetProgramAccounts RPC method that returns all accounts owned by a program.

Get All Program Accounts using TypeScript

Solana Permissioned Environments bring the speed and scalability of Solana with the regulatory and compliant control of a private blockchain. Learn how to deploy and integrate Solana Permissioned Environments for your organization.

Solana Permissioned Environments

A Guide to Solana Permissioned Environments

Configure all new Token Accounts to be frozen by default, then requiring all tokens to be unfrozen by the authority before they can be usable.

Token Extensions: Default Account State

How to use the Default Account State extension

Using the metadata token extension it is possible to save dynamic metadata, like level and XP, directly in the mint of an NFT.

Dynamic metadata NFTs using Token Extensions

With the new token extensions, you can create custom logic for your tokens. In this guide we will go over everything you need to know about token extensions and what you need to get started building today

Getting Started with Token Extensions

With the Token program, the `SetAuthority` instruction can be used to transfer ownership of an account to another. The `ImmutableOwner` extension can be used to prevent this.

Token Extensions: Immutable Owner

How to use the Immutable Owner extension

Interest-bearing tokens are tokens that can either increase or decrease in value over time. Similar to how a bank savings account or a loan accumulates interest.

Token Extensions: Interest-Bearing

How to use the Interest-Bearing extension

The Metadata Pointer extension enables a Mint Account to specify the address of the account that stores its metadata. When used along with the Metadata Extension, metadata can be stored directly on the Mint Account.

Token Extensions: Metadata Pointer and Token Metadata

How to use the Metadata Pointer extension

With Token Extensions, it is possible to close token mint accounts by initializing the MintCloseAuthority extension before initializing the mint.

Token Extensions: Mint Close Authority

How to use the Mint Close Authority extension

In the world of digital collectibles, NFTs have plenty of uses outside of the PFP meta. Enter the concept of 'soul-bound' tokens - assets that are tied to an individual and cannot be transferred.

Token Extensions: Non-transferable

How to use the Non-transferable extension

Token Extensions allow you to specify a permanent account delegate for a mint with unlimited delegate privileges over any account associated with that mint, including burning or transferring any amount of tokens.

Token Extensions: Permanent Delegate

How to use the Permanent Delegate extension

The Token Extensions program has an account extension that can be applied after initializing a Token Account, enabling expanding support for more extensions after initial creation.

Token Extensions: Reallocate instruction

How to use the Reallocate instruction

Memos in financial transactions serve as a communication tool between sender and recipient. It aids in the identification of both parties and offers clarity on the purpose of the transfer.

Token Extensions: Required Memo

How to use the Required Memo token extension

With any form of transaction, there's often a desire to collect or apply a fee. Similar to a small service charge every time you transfer money at a bank or the way royalties or taxes are collected for particular transfers.

Token Extensions: Transfer Fees

How to use the Transfer Fee extension

The Transfer Hook extension and Transfer Hook Interface introduce the ability to create Mint Accounts that execute custom instruction logic on every token transfer.

Token Extensions: Transfer Hook

How to use the Transfer Hook extension

This guide will lead you through the process of integrating Solana wallet adapter in NextJS and using Solana wallets in your app

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