Insights & Updates from OrbitFlare
Deep dives into Solana infrastructure, blockchain technology, and the latest developments in our ecosystem.
Agave 4.2: Transaction V1 Breaking Changes Checklist
Six things that break when Transaction V1 activates on Solana mainnet, and only one of them throws an error. What fails, how it fails, what to change, and the library versions to pin.
Sourav Mishra
Sep 9, 2026
getProgramAccounts Alternatives: Stop Scanning, Start Streaming
getProgramAccounts is the most expensive and most limited method in the Solana RPC API, and most calls to it should be a gRPC subscription, an indexer query, getMultipleAccounts, or a provider index. Why it is costly and the alternative for each use case.
Sourav Mishra
Sep 4, 2026
Copy Trading Architecture: Centralized vs Decentralized
Centralized copy trading mirrors trades inside one ledger. Decentralized copy trading watches a public wallet and rebuilds the trade on-chain.
Sourav Mishra
Sep 3, 2026
Solana Archive Nodes and Historical Data: What Needs an Archive and How to Use It
Standard Solana nodes keep only days of history. Old blocks, transactions and signatures need an archive tier served through the same RPC methods. Which methods hit the archive, why there is no historical state query, and how to use history efficiently.
Sourav Mishra
Sep 2, 2026
Solana Devnet vs Mainnet vs Testnet: Which Cluster for What
Mainnet beta is production, devnet is the developer playground with free SOL, testnet is for the network itself. What each cluster is for, how to point wallets and code at them, what differs in practice, and the mistakes from mixing them up.
Sourav Mishra
Sep 1, 2026
NFT Indexing on Solana: The DAS API, Compressed NFTs and Custom Indexers
Compressed NFTs made NFT indexing a provider service: their data lives in transaction logs, not accounts. The DAS API answers ownership, metadata, collection and proof queries across every NFT kind. When to use it and when to build your own index.
Sourav Mishra
Aug 30, 2026
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