Solana Development

Solana Blockchain Development Services

On-chain programs in Rust and Anchor, plus the clients around them, for DeFi, NFTs, payments, and consumer applications that need throughput and fees a general-purpose chain cannot offer.

~400ms Blocks
Confirmation fast enough for consumer apps
Sub-Cent Fees
Transaction costs that survive real usage
Rust & Anchor
Programs written and tested the way Solana expects
Consensus
Proof of History + Tower BFT
Block Time
~400 ms
Programs
Rust · Anchor
Standards
SPL · Token-2022 · Metaplex
Model
Accounts, not contract storage

Programs Built for Solana’s Execution Model

Solana does not work like an EVM chain, and code written as though it does tends to fail in expensive ways. State lives in accounts that must be passed into every instruction, execution is parallel wherever accounts do not overlap, compute is metered per transaction, and rent-exemption governs what stays on chain. Building well here means designing the account model first and the business logic second.

We build Solana programs in Rust, usually with Anchor for its account validation and IDL generation, and we build the client layer that goes with them: wallet adapters, transaction construction, priority fee handling, and indexers that turn account state into something an application can query. Security review is part of delivery, not an afterthought: signer checks, owner checks, PDA derivation, and arithmetic safety are where Solana exploits actually come from.

  • Account architecture and PDA design specified before implementation
  • Anchor programs with full instruction, integration, and fuzz test coverage
  • Compute budget and priority fee handling tuned for congested conditions
  • Wallet, indexing, and RPC infrastructure delivered alongside the program
Solana ExplorerLive

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412 ms · 1,842 txs · finalized

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Anchor invoke · vault deposit · 0.000005 SOL

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SPL transfer · 24 accounts written

Our Solana Development Services

Programs, clients, and infrastructure for applications that live at Solana speed.

Smart Contract (Program) Development

On-chain programs in Rust and Anchor, designed around Solana’s account model rather than ported from EVM patterns.

  • Anchor program development with generated IDLs
  • PDA and account architecture design
  • Cross-program invocation and composability

Token & DeFi Development

SPL and Token-2022 assets and the protocols around them: swaps, staking, vaults, and lending markets.

  • SPL and Token-2022 token programs and extensions
  • AMM, staking, and vault protocol development
  • Oracle integration with Pyth and Switchboard

NFT & Digital Asset Platforms

Collections, marketplaces, and compressed assets built on the Metaplex standards the ecosystem actually uses.

  • Metaplex Token Metadata and Core collections
  • State compression for large-scale mints
  • Marketplace, royalty, and auction mechanics

dApp & Wallet Integration

The client half of a Solana product: transaction building, wallet connection, and a UX that survives network congestion.

  • Wallet adapter integration for Phantom, Solflare, and Backpack
  • Versioned transactions and address lookup tables
  • Priority fee estimation and retry strategies

Program Security Review

Review focused on the vulnerability classes that Solana programs actually suffer from.

  • Signer, owner, and account validation review
  • Arithmetic, rounding, and overflow analysis
  • Fuzzing and audit remediation support

RPC, Indexing & Operations

The infrastructure that keeps a Solana application responsive when the network is under load.

  • Dedicated RPC and geyser plugin deployment
  • Account and transaction indexing pipelines
  • Monitoring, alerting, and incident response
Solana Stack

Solana Technologies We Use

The program, client, and infrastructure toolchain behind a production Solana application.

Solana Programs

6 tools

On-chain programs written in Rust, structured with Anchor.

  • Solana
  • Rust
  • Anchor
  • SPL Token
  • Metaplex
  • WebAssembly

Client Libraries & Wallets

6 tools

The SDKs and wallet adapters your users actually touch.

  • @solana/web3.js
  • TypeScript
  • Phantom
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js

Data, Oracles & Indexing

6 tools

Account state turned into something an application can query quickly.

  • Pyth Network
  • The Graph
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • GraphQL
  • IPFS

RPC, Testing & Operations

6 tools

Validator and RPC infrastructure, plus the test tooling programs need before mainnet.

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • GitHub Actions
  • Sentry

Working with something else? Our teams pick up new tools quickly. Tell us about your stack.

What We Get Right on Solana

The specifics that separate a program that ships from one that gets drained.

Account Validation

Signer, owner, and seed checks on every account, since missing constraints, not clever math, are the root of most Solana exploits.

Compute Budgeting

Instructions profiled against the compute unit limit, with heavy work split so a transaction never fails at the worst possible moment.

Congestion Handling

Priority fees, versioned transactions, and retry logic that keep an application usable when block space is contested.

Rent & State Design

Rent-exempt sizing, account reallocation, and closure paths planned up front so on-chain storage costs stay predictable.

Parallel Execution

Account layouts designed to avoid write contention, so Sealevel can actually execute your transactions in parallel.

Upgrade Authority Hygiene

Program upgrade authority managed through multisig or timelock, with a documented path to making a program immutable.

Use Cases

What Teams Build on Solana

Where sub-second confirmation and negligible fees change what is possible.

DeFi Protocols

Order books, AMMs, perpetuals, and lending markets that need low latency and cheap order updates.

NFT & Gaming Economies

Large collections, in-game assets, and compressed mints at a cost per asset that makes consumer scale viable.

Payments & Micropayments

Point-of-sale, streaming payments, and payouts where fees have to stay below the value transferred.

Consumer Applications

Social, loyalty, and rewards products where users expect an app to respond immediately, not in thirty seconds.

Our Solana Development Process

From account architecture to a program running on mainnet-beta.

1. Account & Program Architecture

We design the account model first, covering what state lives where, which PDAs derive from what, who owns each account, and how instructions compose, because on Solana this decision constrains everything after it.

2. Program Implementation

Anchor programs written in Rust with instruction-level tests from the start, running against a local validator so your team can exercise real flows early.

3. Client & Integration Layer

Transaction construction, wallet adapter integration, indexing, and front-end work, including the congestion and retry behaviour that decides whether the app feels reliable.

4. Testing & Hardening

Integration tests against a local validator, fuzzing of instruction inputs, compute profiling, and a security review pass over account validation and arithmetic.

5. Devnet, Audit & Launch

Devnet deployment for real-world testing, external audit where value at risk warrants it, remediation, then a staged mainnet-beta rollout with upgrade authority controls in place.

6. Operations & Iteration

RPC and indexer monitoring, alerting on failed transaction rates, and ongoing program upgrades as the product and the network evolve.

Frequently Asked Questions

What teams ask before starting a Solana build.

How is Solana development different from Ethereum development?

The execution model is genuinely different. Solana programs are stateless code; all state lives in separate accounts that every instruction must declare up front, which is what allows parallel execution. Programs are written in Rust rather than Solidity, storage is paid for through rent exemption instead of per-slot gas, and transactions have a compute unit budget. Solidity experience transfers conceptually, but the account model has to be learned properly, and teams that skip that step are where most Solana bugs come from.

Should we use Anchor or write a native program?

Anchor for almost everything. It handles account validation, serialisation, and IDL generation, which removes an entire class of security bugs and makes client integration far easier. Native programs make sense when you need to squeeze compute units in a very hot instruction or need control Anchor does not expose. Many production protocols use Anchor for the bulk of their code and hand-optimise only the instructions that need it.

What does a Solana program cost to deploy and run?

Deployment cost is driven by program size, typically a few SOL for the rent-exempt program account, recoverable if the program is later closed. Each stateful account your program creates also needs a rent-exempt balance proportional to its size. Transaction fees are a fraction of a cent, with optional priority fees during congestion. We model these costs during architecture, because account sizing decisions are what actually drive them.

How do you protect against the common Solana exploits?

By reviewing for the classes that actually occur: missing signer checks, missing account owner checks, unvalidated PDA derivation, type confusion between account structs, arithmetic overflow and rounding in favour of the user, and unsafe cross-program invocation. Anchor’s constraint system prevents many of these when used properly. On top of that we fuzz instruction inputs and recommend an external audit before meaningful value is at stake.

Do we need our own RPC infrastructure?

For anything with real usage, yes. Public endpoints are rate limited and unreliable under load, and Solana applications are chatty: account subscriptions, transaction simulation, retries. We normally deploy dedicated RPC with a provider or run our own nodes, plus an indexer so the front end reads from a queryable database rather than scanning accounts on every page load.

How long does a Solana project take?

A focused program with a client integration, such as a staking vault, a token distribution, or a simple marketplace, is typically 8 to 14 weeks. A full DeFi protocol or a consumer application with multiple programs, indexing infrastructure, and an audit usually runs 4 to 8 months, with the audit and remediation cycle a meaningful part of that.

Ready to Build on Solana?

Tell us what your program has to do and we will come back with an account architecture, a security plan, and a delivery timeline.