Infrastructure
Solana RPC methods: what they do and why they matter
Every Solana RPC call follows the same path, and the cost of each stage depends on the method. Here is how methods, routing and shred feeds fit together.
Every Solana RPC call follows the same path, and the cost of each stage depends on the method. Here is how methods, routing and shred feeds fit together.
Signing a Solana message is not the same as signing a transaction. Sign and verify with the CLI, inspect the exact bytes, and build a one-time sign-in that rejects replays.
We cloned robinhood-chain-sequencer-feed and fomo-solana-rh-listeners, ran both against live mainnet and a real Chainstack node, and captured what actually happened.
A step-by-step guide to deploying a self-hosted Solana RPC node on is*hosting bare metal with Chainstack: real Agave hardware sizing, Control Panel setup, 20% off code.
Solana joins Mainnet and Devnet, plus sixteen more protocols and forty-one new deployment targets — here is what Chainstack Self-Hosted shipped in August.
Market makers, exchanges, and DEX aggregators run their own Solana nodes for speed. Chainstack Self-Hosted’s new Agave support removes the hardware and ops burden.