#awesome-card ## What is Solana? - [The Solana Whitepaper](https://solana.com/solana-whitepaper.pdf) ## Awesome materials for Users or Developers - [User: Solana Explorer - The official explorer for Solana clusters](https://explorer.solana.com/) - [User: Solscan - The user-friendly and real-time scanning tool](https://solscan.io/) - [User: SolanaFM - A friendly Solana explorer](https://solana.fm/) - [User: Solana Validator Profit Calculator](https://cogentcrypto.io/ValidatorProfitCalculator) - [User: SOL CLI Explorer - A command line explorer for the Solana blockchain](https://github.com/cavemanloverboy/sol) - [Developer: Helius - Solana's most loved RPC Nodes, APIs, Webhooks, and Developer Tooling](https://www.helius.dev/) - [Developer: Helius research, tutorials, and guides](https://www.helius.dev/blog) - [Developer: Programming on Solana](https://paulx.dev/blog/2021/01/14/programming-on-solana-an-introduction/) - [Developer: A dummy's guide to Solana's architecture](https://anvit.hashnode.dev/a-dummys-guide-to-solana-architecture) - [Developer: More Than Just Scaling With Hardware](https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/solana-the-monolith#more-than-just-scaling-with-hardware-f778) - [Developer: An executive overview of the Solana protocol](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puEThjO9rmnZmIj_05WvU99FPmUiZ4pb/view) - [Developer: Solana Proof of Stake + Proof of History Primer](https://www.shinobi-systems.com/primer.html) - [Developer: Solana Fees](https://www.umbraresearch.xyz/writings/solana-fees-part-1) - [Developer: Lifecycle of a Solana Transaction](https://www.umbraresearch.xyz/writings/lifecycle-of-a-solana-transaction) - [Developer: What Are the Native On-Chain Programs and Why Do They Matter?](https://www.sec3.dev/blog/solana-internals-part-1-what-are-the-native-on-chain-programs-and-why-do-they-matter) - [Developer: The Solana Cookbook](https://solana.com/developers/cookbook#contributing) - [Developer: Create a Solana dApp From Scratch](https://lorisleiva.com/create-a-solana-dapp-from-scratch) - [Developer: Solana Bytes - Videos explain core concepts of Solana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRYs49MqapI) - [Developer: 60 Days of Solana](https://www.rareskills.io/solana-tutorial) - [Developer: Rust + Solana Advance Development Course](https://careerbooster.io/courses/rust-solana-advance-development-course) - [Developer: FreeCodeCamp Solana Courses](https://web3.freecodecamp.org/solana) - [Developer: Solana Development Courses](https://solana.com/developers/courses) - [Developer: Anchor - The official documentation for Anchor, a framework for Solana's Sealevel runtime](https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor) - [Developer: The Anchor Book](https://book.anchor-lang.com/) - [Developer: Full-stack Solana development with React and Anchor](https://solana.com/developers/guides/getstarted/full-stack-solana-development) - [Developer: Intro to Anchor/Solana Development](https://www.youtube.com/live/Ru-ywR7rtgY?si=qSusTWxwV3xblC2o) - [Developer: Solana Smart Contract Tutorial: Using the Anchor Framework](https://youtu.be/CmG5_sIas1Q?si=yKeBbMa5QDT73uCA) - [Developer: Setup a Solana Validator tutorial](https://docs.anza.xyz/operations/setup-a-validator/) - [Developer: Solana Validator Operations Best Practices](https://docs.anza.xyz/operations/best-practices/general/) - [Developer: Solana Project Template](https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/solana-project-template) - [Developer: Create-Solana-Dapp - A starter template for Solana dApps](https://github.com/solana-developers/create-solana-dapp) - [Developer: Solana Playground - An interactive environment for Solana development](https://github.com/solana-playground/solana-playground) - [Developer: Zircon - A Solana development toolkit](https://github.com/joeymeere/zircon) - [Developer: SOLfees.fyi - A tool for tracking Solana transaction fees](https://github.com/ronnyhaase/solfees.fyi) - [Developer: Anza Wallet Adapter - A wallet adapter for Solana](https://github.com/anza-xyz/wallet-adapter) - [Developer: Solana Wallet Adapter - Official wallet adapter for Solana](https://github.com/solana-labs/wallet-adapter) - [Developer: Mollusk - SVM program test harness.](https://github.com/buffalojoec/mollusk) - [Developer: LiteSVM - A fast and lightweight library for testing Solana programs](https://github.com/LiteSVM/litesvm) - [Developer: Solana Mobile Starter - A starter kit for Solana mobile development](https://github.com/solendprotocol/solana-mobile-starter-kit) - [Developer: Shank - Extracts IDL from Solana Rust contract](https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/shank) - [Developer: Solita - Genrates an SDK API from solana contract IDL](https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/solita) - [Developer: Umi - A Solana Framework for JS Clients.](https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/umi) - [Developer: Kinobi - Generate powerful clients for your Solana programs](https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/kinobi) - [Developer: Solathon - A Python sdk for Solana](https://github.com/SuperteamDAO/solathon) - [Developer: Dreamcast - Tool for fetching and interacting with Anchor IDLs](https://github.com/joeymeere/dreamcast) - [Developer: Metaboss - The Solana Metaplex NFT 'Swiss Army Knife' tool](https://github.com/samuelvanderwaal/metaboss) - [Developer: Soda - Fast Code Generator for Solana](https://github.com/Web3-Builders-Alliance/soda) - [Developer: Sol4k - Kotlin client for Solana](https://github.com/sol4k/sol4k) - [Developer: Solnet - Solana .NET sdk](https://github.com/bmresearch/Solnet) - [Developer: Lighthouse - The Solana assertion protocol](https://github.com/Jac0xb/lighthouse) - [Developer: Solana Wallet Names - Tool for resolving wallet name to address](https://github.com/portalpayments/solana-wallet-names) - [Developer: AnchorPy - The Python Anchor client](https://github.com/kevinheavey/anchorpy) - [Developer: Nautilus - SQL-native Solana program framework](https://github.com/nautilus-project/nautilus) - [Developer: Openbook v2 - contains solana program and ts client](https://github.com/openbook-dex/openbook-v2) - [Developer: Phoenix v1 - On-chain order book that atomically settles trades](https://github.com/Ellipsis-Labs/phoenix-v1) - [Developer: Solana Program Library - A collection of Solana programs maintained by Solana Labs](https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-program-library) - [Developer: Mango v4 - contains program, ts client, and py client](https://github.com/blockworks-foundation/mango-v4) - [Developer: Kamino Lend - A lending protocol smart contract for Solana](https://github.com/Kamino-Finance/klend) - [Developer: Mrgn TS - A Solana DeFi project](https://github.com/mrgnlabs/mrgn-ts) - [Developer: Whirlpools - Liquidity AMM contract on Solana](https://github.com/orca-so/whirlpools) - [Developer: Raydium CLMM - Liquidity Market Maker](https://github.com/raydium-io/raydium-clmm) - [Developer: Saber - An automated market maker for mean-reverting trading pairs.](https://github.com/saber-hq/stable-swap) - [Developer: TinyDancer - The First Light Client for the Solana Blockchain](https://github.com/tinydancer-io/tinydancer) - [Developer: Light Protocol - The ZK Compression Protocol For Solana](https://github.com/Lightprotocol/light-protocol) - [Developer: Squads Multisig Program Library for Solana](https://github.com/Squads-Protocol/squads-mpl) - [Developer: lite-rpc - Lite rpc which optimizes sending and confirming transaction](https://github.com/blockworks-foundation/lite-rpc) - [Developer: Elusiv - Scaling privacy with Zero-knowledge proofs and MPC on Solana](https://github.com/elusiv-privacy/elusiv) - [Developer: Stockpile lite - An on-chain quadratic funding grants stack on Solana](https://github.com/StockpileLabs/stockpile-lite) - [Developer: Code Program Library - A collection of Code maintained on-chain Solana programs](https://github.com/code-payments/code-program-library) - [Developer: Code Android App - Mobile wallet app](https://github.com/code-payments/code-android-app) - [Developer: Jito Solana - Jito Foundation MEV Solana Client](https://github.com/jito-foundation/jito-solana) - [Developer: Jito Stakenet - A decentralized Solana stake pool manager](https://github.com/jito-foundation/stakenet) - [Developer: solv - CLI Tool for Managing Solana Validators](https://github.com/EpicsDAO/solv) - [Developer: Bubblegum - Create and manage Metaplex compressed NFTs](https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/mpl-bubblegum) - [Developer: Inscription - Writing binary or structured data to Solana](https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/mpl-inscription) - [Developer: Solana Auth - Sign-in with Solana wallet, with server+client side authentication and persistent sessions](https://github.com/Crossmint/solana-auth) - [Developer: marketplace contracts - Marketplace contracts for listing and bidding on core assets on Soundwork](https://github.com/SoundWorkLabs/marketplace-contracts) - [Developer: PubKey Link - Free and Open Source Discord verification on Solana](https://github.com/pubkeyapp/pubkey-link) - [Developer: BYO Mint - A compressed NFT mint program on Solana.](https://github.com/0xlarry/byo_mint) - [Developer: McBurnJS - A Node.js CLI to burn even the most stubborn of cNFTs.](https://github.com/McDegens-DAO/mcburn-js/) - [Developer: cNFT Spam Filter - An open-source, lightweight, and portable spam classifier for cNFTs on Solana](https://github.com/filtoor/cnft-spam-filter) - [Developer: Pyre - An educational app that teaches users about Helius and Solana](https://github.com/helius-labs/pyre) - [Developer: Xray - A human-readable Solana transaction explorer powered by Helius](https://github.com/helius-labs/xray)