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
Solana RPC for AI Agents: MCP, Tools and Guardrails
An AI agent acting on Solana needs a read path, a write path and guardrails, exposed as typed tools through MCP with keys and limits held outside the model. What agents need from infrastructure, how to expose it, and the guardrails that keep an autonomous agent safe.
Sourav Mishra
Sep 5, 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
Solana WebSockets vs gRPC: When to Switch and How
WebSockets and Geyser gRPC both push Solana updates. They differ in where they tap the node, how they encode, how they filter and how far they scale. When each is right, and a one-subscription-at-a-time migration path.
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
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