A developer building an autonomous Solana trading agent called Cerberus in n8n spent a day debugging why their Telegram bot silently stopped responding, only to discover that n8n's automatic tunnel re…
An 18-year-old solo developer has built NOVAI, an open-source Layer 1 blockchain written in Rust with 104,000 lines of code and 1,824 tests, designed from the ground up for AI agents rather than human…
A developer pushed a cleanup to production targeting background worker performance issues, enforcing strict log rotation and terminating stagnant threads. To power a data pipeline for fast cryptocurre…
Weekly crypto code commits have fallen roughly 75% since early 2025, dropping from about 850,000 to 210,000, while active developers declined 56% to around 4,600, according to data from analytics plat…
After two weeks of learning Solana, a developer with a Python and Node.js backend background found blockchain development to be more approachable than expected, comparing it to working with a public d…
In Solana, all data is stored as "accounts" in a flat key-value store, where each account has five standard fields including lamports (SOL balance), data (a byte array), and an owner program. A key de…
This article explains how to build a live transactions-per-second (TPS) meter for any specific Solana program using OrbitFlare's TypeScript SDK. The solution uses a Jetstream subscription to count tra…
The article describes how the author verified Solana's "everything is an account" principle by inspecting various system accounts via the CLI. They discovered that a user wallet, the System Program, a…
This article explains how developers can use Solana's Token 2022 extensions to build various Web3 applications without custom smart contracts. It outlines four specific use cases: subscription tokens …
The article explains that Solana's account model parallels database concepts, where an account is like a row, a public key is like a primary key, and program logic acts as a schema. However, the key d…
The article describes **forgekit**, a modular, zero-dependency toolkit for Solana that simplifies building token launchpads and bonding curves. It explains how developers can use three specific npm pa…
The article explains Solana's data storage model by comparing it to a Web2 file system, where every piece of data—from user wallets to smart contracts—is stored as an "account" (like a file) in a gian…
The article announces a $500 prize draw for participants in the 100 Days of Solana program who complete the Day 36 or 37 challenge. The program, created by MLH and Solana, is a daily hands-on learning…
First part of the "100 Days of Solana" series, which introduces key Web3 fundamentals. It explains that a Solana identity begins with a locally generated keypair (a public and private key), not a serv…
Setting a minimum release age (cooldown) on dependencies is a low-effort, high-impact defense against supply-chain attacks, as most malicious packages are detected and removed within hours. All three …