Mastering Solana

Get started with Solana development on Chainstack, covering node deployment, RPC methods, program interaction, token operations, and DeFi integration.

This section is a curated path through Solana development on Chainstack — from spinning up your first RPC node to building production trading bots, indexers, and DeFi integrations.

Prerequisites

• A Chainstack account and a deployed Solana node (mainnet, devnet, or a Solana Trader Node for low-latency trading).
• Familiarity with the Solana JSON-RPC API and one Solana SDK (@solana/web3.js, solana-py, or Anchor).

What you’ll learn

• Pump.fun and Raydium — build a Pump.fun trading bot, listen to Pump.fun → Raydium migrations, and detect new token mints via logsSubscribe.
• Priority fees and landing transactions — compute Jupiter priority fees in Python and analyze adjacent transactions for fee optimization.
• Token swaps — execute swaps with the Raydium SDK and route trades through Jupiter.
• Migrations — move from Helius getTokenAccounts to standard Solana RPC methods, and from Syndica to Chainstack with no code rewrite.
• Archive and infrastructure — see Solana archive nodes: the backbone of Solana’s data availability for when (and why) you need archive history.

For ultra-low-latency trading workloads, pair these tutorials with a Solana Trader Node and the Yellowstone gRPC Geyser plugin.

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