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Solana RPC Rate Limits: How They Work and How to Stop Hitting Them
Fundamentals
9 min

Solana RPC Rate Limits: How They Work and How to Stop Hitting Them

Rate limits are a provider mechanism with three shapes: per second, per allowance and per method. How to diagnose which one you hit, and the changes (subscribe instead of poll, batch, cache, slice, fix retries) that cut request volume by an order of magnitude.

Sourav Mishra

Sourav Mishra

Aug 26, 2026

Solana Commitment Levels Explained: Processed, Confirmed and Finalized
Fundamentals
10 min

Solana Commitment Levels Explained: Processed, Confirmed and Finalized

Commitment levels describe how sure the network is that a block will stay in the chain. processed is fastest and provisional, confirmed is the default, finalized is for anything irreversible. What each means, where it applies, and the bugs that come from mixing them.

Sourav Mishra

Sourav Mishra

Aug 23, 2026

Network Infrastructure for Low-Latency Solana Trading
Fundamentals
27 min

Network Infrastructure for Low-Latency Solana Trading

Low-latency Solana trading infrastructure is four layers: placement relative to a leader that moves every four slots, how early you observe the chain, how you get transactions into a saturated leader, and how you route between regions. This guide explains each one and where the milliseconds go.

Sourav Mishra

Sourav Mishra

Aug 23, 2026

p-token: How Solana Rewrote Its Most Important Program
Fundamentals
21 min

p-token: How Solana Rewrote Its Most Important Program

Solana swapped in a new SPL Token program at the same address, and every transfer now costs about 60x less.

Sourav Mishra

Sourav Mishra

May 28, 2026

Top 10 Solana RPC Providers in 2026
Fundamentals
17 min

Top 10 Solana RPC Providers in 2026

Ranked breakdown of the ten Solana RPC providers worth considering in 2026, with a benchmarking checklist and a use-case-to-vendor map.

Sourav Mishra

Sourav Mishra

May 1, 2026

Before the Block, There's the Shred
Fundamentals
13 min

Before the Block, There's the Shred

Every transaction on Solana is broken into 1,228-byte fragments called shreds before it reaches a single validator. They travel through a stake-weighted tree, and whoever sees them first has the edge.

Sourav Mishra

Sourav Mishra

Mar 3, 2026

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