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Agave 4.2: Transaction V1 Breaking Changes Checklist
Developers
9 min

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

Sourav Mishra

Sep 9, 2026

getProgramAccounts Alternatives: Stop Scanning, Start Streaming
Developers
7 min

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

Sourav Mishra

Sep 4, 2026

Copy Trading Architecture: Centralized vs Decentralized
Developers
7 min

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

Sourav Mishra

Sep 3, 2026

NFT Indexing on Solana: The DAS API, Compressed NFTs and Custom Indexers
Developers
10 min

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

Sourav Mishra

Aug 30, 2026

Solana Priority Fee Estimation: A Method That Lands Without Overpaying
Developers
11 min

Solana Priority Fee Estimation: A Method That Lands Without Overpaying

The right priority fee is the price per compute unit recent transactions on your accounts paid, at a percentile matching your urgency, times a compute limit set from simulation. The method step by step, and the mistakes that make bots overpay or fail to land.

Sourav Mishra

Sourav Mishra

Aug 29, 2026

How to Build a Solana Sniper Bot: Detection, Filters and Execution
Developers
15 min

How to Build a Solana Sniper Bot: Detection, Filters and Execution

A Solana sniper bot is a race measured in milliseconds wrapped around a safety problem. This guide covers the detection layer, the filters that keep you out of traps, and the execution path that lands the buy during a launch.

Sourav Mishra

Sourav Mishra

Aug 26, 2026

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