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Deep dives into Solana infrastructure, blockchain technology, and the latest developments in our ecosystem.

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

Solana RPC for AI Agents: MCP, Tools and Guardrails
Developers
7 min

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

Sourav Mishra

Sep 5, 2026

Solana WebSockets vs gRPC: When to Switch and How
Developers
7 min

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

Sourav Mishra

Sep 4, 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

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