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📚 Literature on the Solana Blockchain

📙 General Knowledge

• The Solana Bet, by Toly
• Solana's Ultimate Vision, by Toly
• Solana Whitepaper, by Solana Foundation
• Solana Documentation, by Solana Foundation
• Solana Developer Resources, by Solana Foundation
• A Deep Dive into Solana 2.0, by Toly
• Solana End Game, by Toly and Buffalu
• Moving from EVM to SVM, by Solana Foundation

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📘 Solana Architecture

1️⃣ Consensus and Proof of Stake

• Consensus on Solana, by Helius
• Spotlight: Solana's Consensus (video)

2️⃣ Proof of History

• Proof of History, by Toly

3️⃣ Turbine and Data Availability

• Turbine Block Propagation, by Solana Foundation
• Turbine: Block Propagation on Solana, by Helius

4️⃣ Sealevel and Parallelism

• Sealevel, Parallel Processing Thousands of Smart Contracts, by Toly
• Sealevel Parallel Runtime, by Solana Labs

5️⃣ QUIC (Network Layer)

• Quinn (rust implementation of QUIC)
• How to Mitigate Spam QUICkly, by Helius

6️⃣ Solana Transactions

• Lifecycle of a Solana Transaction, by ShitTrader and Buffalu
• Why Are Transactions Dropping?, by Mert Mumtaz, Dan Smith
• How to Land Transactions on Solana, by Anam Ansari
• How Transactions Get Dropped, by Solana Foundation

Compute Usage

• How to Optimize Compute Usage on Solana, by Solana Foundation

7️⃣ The Banking Stage

• Spotlight: Solana's Scheduler, by Solana
• Solana Banking Stage and Scheduler, by apfitzge dev-log

8️⃣ Solana Fees

• Transaction Fees, by Solana Foundation
• How to use Priority Fees on Solana, by Solana Foundation
• Solana Fees I, by ShitTrader
• Solana Fees in Theory and Practice, by Helius
• Solana's Fee Markets Aren't Real, by ShitTrader
• Priority Fees: Understanding Solana's Transaction Fee Mechanics, by Helius
• Toward Multidimensional Solana Fees, by Theo Diamandis et al.
• Solana vs Ethereum Fee Markets, with Mert Mumtaz and Dan Smith
• The Central Scheduler Priority Fee Algorithm, by Anza
• Helius Priority Fee API

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📗 Solana Validators

1️⃣ Running a Solana Validator

• Setup a Solana Validator, by Solana Labs
• How to Set Up a Solana Validator, by Helius
• Solana Validator Documentation, by Solana Labs
• Understanding Slots, Blocks, and Epochs on Solana, by Helius
• Solana Validator Education, Jito-Solana Concepts + Setup
• Validator Economics, a Primer, by Helius
• Multiple Concurrent Leaders, by Toly
• Challenges Facing Long-tail Validators, by Helius

Jito

• Jito-Solana, Jito's client in Rust

Firedancer

• Firedancer, Jump's high-performance client in C++
• What's Firedancer, by Helius
• Firedancer w/ Kevin Bowers

Others

• Solana-MEV, ChorusOne's modification of Solana's validator

2️⃣ Stake Weighted QoS

• Stake Weighted QoS, by Solana Foundation
• Solana Validator Education: Stake Weighted QoS
• Solana Bandwidth Markets, by FluxBeam

3️⃣ Stats and Dashboards

• Solana Beach
• Solana Explorer
• Solana FM
• Dune's Solana Key Metrics
• Dune's Solana DEX Overview
• Dune's Solana Staking, Validators, and LSTs
• Solana.compass Validator Metrics
• Solana Validator.app Metrics

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📒 Solana Ecosystem

Wormhole

• List of Wormhole Case Studies

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📕 Join the Decentralized Finance Revolution

• Jupiter's Solana Welcome Guide
• Superteam Communities
• Solana Jobs