Insights & Updates from OrbitFlare
Deep dives into Solana infrastructure, blockchain technology, and the latest developments in our ecosystem.
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
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
Aug 26, 2026
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
Aug 23, 2026
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
Aug 23, 2026
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
May 28, 2026
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