# devrels.xyz

> The developer community hub and directory for Solana. A curated, vetted index of builders, organisations, developer tools (SDKs/CLIs/APIs/MCPs), projects, long-form technical articles, media channels (podcasts, newsletters, YouTube), jobs, and events across the Solana ecosystem.

Coverage: 467 developers · 240 organisations · 121 projects · 74 developer tools · 29 media channels · 40+ technical articles.

## Sections
- [Directory](https://devrels.xyz/directory): Solana developers, DevRels, and ecosystem operators.
- [Organisations](https://devrels.xyz/organisations): protocols, infra teams, and companies building on Solana.
- [Projects](https://devrels.xyz/projects): apps and protocols, grouped by category.
- [Resources](https://devrels.xyz/resources): SDKs, CLIs, APIs, MCP servers, frameworks, and libraries.
- [Articles](https://devrels.xyz/articles): in-depth technical deep-dives on Solana internals and tooling.
- [Channels](https://devrels.xyz/channels): podcasts, newsletters, and YouTube channels worth following.
- [Jobs](https://devrels.xyz/jobs): where to find Solana roles — links to Superteam Talent, the official Solana board, and Superteam Earn.
- [Events](https://devrels.xyz/events): Solana events and meetups.

## Technical articles
- [vanity v0.8.0: keypair grinding gets the speed treatment — AVX-512 ed25519 and a tuned OpenCL path](https://devrels.xyz/articles/vanity-v0-8-0): cavemanloverboy's vanity v0.8.0 lands on crates.io: 8-lane AVX-512 IFMA ed25519 keygen on CPU, batch field inversion and comb scalarmult in 
- [Where is Solana's ABI? Why your inline ethers.js habit doesn't port, and how Codama closes the gap](https://devrels.xyz/articles/solana-idl-vs-ethereum-abi): Ethereum lets you paste a two-line human-readable ABI and call a contract. Solana asks for an IDL file and a codegen step. The difference is
- [Orquestra: upload a Solana IDL, get a REST API, AI docs, and an MCP server](https://devrels.xyz/articles/orquestra-idl-api-mcp): Orquestra is a free, MIT-licensed platform that turns Anchor and Codama IDLs into hosted REST endpoints, per-project llms.txt docs, and a li
- [Credible Finance: DeFi pools as working capital for card settlement](https://devrels.xyz/articles/credible-finance-stablecoin-payments): Credible (Colosseum-backed, $700M+ processed) is a payments orchestrator with a twist: merchants get paid T+0 from stablecoin liquidity pool
- [The 10 most-invoked Solana programs, per ProgramWatch](https://devrels.xyz/articles/top-10-solana-programs): ProgramWatch ranks programs by instruction invocations over 24 hours — and the leaderboard is a portrait of Solana in 2026: token plumbing o
- [Solana vs Robinhood Chain, by the numbers](https://devrels.xyz/articles/solana-vs-robinhood-chain-numbers): The tape measure, not the take: age, validators, nodes, uptime, TVL, deployed programs, and finality for Solana vs the 9-day-old Robinhood C
- [Unruggable: a Solana wallet that grew from a bash script into an ESP32 hardware signer](https://devrels.xyz/articles/unruggable-solana-wallet): Unruggable is a security-first Solana wallet project by one builder: a pure-bash CLI wallet, a Rust/Dioxus cross-platform app with MPC key s
- [Robinhood Chain is live: what the broker's L2 means, and how it stacks up against Solana](https://devrels.xyz/articles/robinhood-chain-vs-solana): Robinhood launched its own Arbitrum-stack L2 on July 1, 2026 — 100ms blocks, 2,000+ tokenized stocks, Uniswap and Chainlink on day one. A cl
- [What hides what: Solana privacy solutions in one table](https://devrels.xyz/articles/solana-privacy-what-hides-what): Confidential Transfers, Arcium, MagicBlock, Privacy Cash, and Umbra all claim 'privacy' — but each hides a different thing and trusts a diff
- [PoH was scaffolding, not the building: Rotor, Votor, and the end of Solana's origin story](https://devrels.xyz/articles/poh-rotor-votor-scaffolding): Alpenglow retires Proof of History — the thing every Solana thread led with for years. That's not engineers overruling marketing; it's engin
- [Solana agent skills, compared: the portal, the marketplace, the mono-skill, and VulnHunter](https://devrels.xyz/articles/solana-skills-compared): Four surfaces now claim the 'Solana skills' name: solana.com/skills (the official directory), solanaskills.com (SendAI's 47-skill marketplac
- [NVIDIA's open-model giveaway: the Nemotron 3 era, mapped for builders](https://devrels.xyz/articles/nvidia-open-models-developer-resources): NVIDIA now ships open-weight frontier models across language (Nemotron 3 Nano/Super/Ultra), speech (Parakeet, Canary), robotics (GR00T), and
- [Bank APIs for Solana apps: Bridge vs Sphere vs Squads Grid](https://devrels.xyz/articles/bank-apis-for-solana-apps): Your Solana app can have a routing number now. Bridge (Stripe), Sphere, and Squads Grid all sell APIs that turn ACH/wire/SEPA deposits into 
- [Passkeys on Solana: how Face ID signs transactions now](https://devrels.xyz/articles/passkeys-on-solana-secp256r1): Since June 2025 Solana can verify WebAuthn passkey signatures natively via the secp256r1 precompile (SIMD-0075). Here's the curve mismatch, 
- [ZK proofs on Solana: the two stacks, mapped](https://devrels.xyz/articles/zk-proofs-on-solana): Solana doesn't have one ZK story — it has two. The curve25519 sigma-proof stack (ZK ElGamal, confidential transfers) and the BN254 SNARK sta
- [Ed25519SigVerify111111111111111111111111111: Solana's signature-verification workhorse](https://devrels.xyz/articles/ed25519-precompile-solana): The Ed25519 precompile verifies arbitrary signed messages inside a transaction — no accounts, no CPI, just instruction introspection. The wi
- [OKX.AI Genesis Hackathon: $100K to seed the agent economy — settled on Solana](https://devrels.xyz/articles/okx-ai-genesis-hackathon): OKX launched an agent marketplace where AI agents hire and pay each other in stablecoins on EVM chains and Solana. The Genesis Hackathon ($1
- [Crypto philanthropy is a $100M/year rail — and it's buildable](https://devrels.xyz/articles/crypto-charity-donations-solana): Crypto donations hit $100M+ in 2025 with an $11K average gift. The Giving Block's donation APIs support SOL and SPL tokens, Endaoment does o
- [Devnet, testnet, mainnet — Solana's clusters, and how to fund a devnet wallet](https://devrels.xyz/articles/solana-devnet-testnet-mainnet-explained): What Solana's three public clusters are for, which one you should build on, and the two faucets that fund your devnet wallet: devnetfaucet.o
- [integrations.sh maps every integration agents can reach — and Solana isn't on the map](https://devrels.xyz/articles/integrations-sh-agent-registry-solana-gap): integrations.sh is a registry of integration surfaces — MCP servers, REST/OpenAPI, GraphQL — for 3,200+ services, each led by a cited, least
- [Securitize on Solana: how tokenized stocks and funds enforce compliance with Token-2022](https://devrels.xyz/articles/securitize-tokenized-stocks-solana-token-2022): Securitize listed its own stock (SECZ) on the NYSE on July 2, 2026 and tokenized it on Solana and Avalanche the same day. On EVM its DS Prot
- [Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway runs on x402 — and Solana is a settlement rail](https://devrels.xyz/articles/cloudflare-monetization-gateway-x402-solana): Cloudflare will let you charge for any resource behind its edge — pages, APIs, datasets, MCP tools — using x402 and stablecoins, with the 40
- [Agave v4.2: 200ms slots, XDP by default, and what breaks for validators and RPC operators](https://devrels.xyz/articles/agave-v4-2-release-solana): Agave v4.2 targets 200ms slot times — halving Solana's current 400ms — and ships breaking changes for validators (XDP transmit now requires 
- [Jito NCN and VRT mechanics: building Node Consensus Networks on Jito restaking](https://devrels.xyz/articles/jito-ncn-vrt-restaking): A builder-focused deep dive into Jito restaking's Node Consensus Networks (NCNs) and Vault Receipt Tokens (VRTs). Covers the three-actor mod
- [Sanctum for developers: LST swap API, Gateway transaction delivery, and on-chain programs](https://devrels.xyz/articles/sanctum-developer-api-gateway): Sanctum exposes two distinct developer surfaces: the LST swap API (ExactIn/ExactOut routes across 200+ LSTs via Ironforge) and Sanctum Gatew
- [Alchemy CLI: query blockchain data, send transactions, and manage apps from the terminal](https://devrels.xyz/articles/alchemy-cli-developer-guide): The Alchemy CLI installs as a global npm package and covers EVM and Solana chains — balances, token data, NFTs, transfers, swaps, bridges, c
- [Auticuro vs Solana: two approaches to high-throughput account balance management](https://devrels.xyz/articles/auticuro-wallet-service-vs-solana): Auticuro is Airwallex's open-source Rust wallet service — Raft consensus, CQRS/event sourcing, P99 < 20ms at 10K TPS. Solana is a permission
- [Sign In With Solana: wallet-based auth from spec to session token](https://devrels.xyz/articles/sign-in-with-solana): SIWS lets users authenticate with their Solana wallet via a signed plaintext message — no password, no OAuth. Here's the full flow: message 
- [Collector Crypt for builders: marketplace API, gacha VRF, and on-chain programs](https://devrels.xyz/articles/collector-crypt-developer-api): Collector Crypt exposes three API surfaces — Marketplace, Gacha, and Shipping/Vault — backed by Solana programs for non-custodial NFT tradin
- [Backpack Exchange API: ED25519 auth, 70 endpoints, and the official Rust SDK](https://devrels.xyz/articles/backpack-exchange-api-developer-guide): Backpack Exchange offers a full REST and WebSocket API backed by ED25519 keypair signing. The official SDK is Rust-only; community Python cl
- [Sports data on Solana: how TxODDS puts verifiable odds on-chain and what you can build](https://devrels.xyz/articles/txodds-sports-data-on-solana): TxODDS anchors every odds update, score, and settlement figure to Solana via Merkle proofs. Their TxLINE product lets you pay for sports dat
- [Solana verified program builds: reproducible bytecode and the on-chain registry](https://devrels.xyz/articles/solana-verified-program-builds): How solana-verify and OtterSec's on-chain registry let anyone confirm that the program deployed at a given address matches a public GitHub r
- [solana/pay: the missing payment layer for HTTP and AI agents](https://devrels.xyz/articles/solana-foundation-pay-cli-agent-payments): The Solana Foundation's pay CLI handles x402 and MPP HTTP 402 payment challenges transparently — wrap curl, Claude Code, or Codex and let ag
- [Brale: white-label stablecoin issuance infrastructure on Solana](https://devrels.xyz/articles/brale-stablecoin-infrastructure-solana): Brale is a regulated API layer for launching custom stablecoins on Solana — handling issuance, custody, on/off-ramps, compliance, and Token 
- [Zoneless: open-source Stripe Connect replacement on Solana](https://devrels.xyz/articles/zoneless-stripe-connect-alternative-solana): Zoneless replaces Stripe Connect with USDC payouts on Solana — $0.002 per payout, instant settlement, Stripe-compatible API. Self-hosted, Ap
- [polymarket-rs: a typed Rust SDK for the Polymarket CLOB](https://devrels.xyz/articles/polymarket-rs-rust-sdk): polymarket-rs is a modern, type-safe Rust client for the Polymarket CLOB and Data APIs — covering market data, order placement, EIP-712 sign
- [Polymarket as a global truth machine: 10 things you can build with the API](https://devrels.xyz/articles/polymarket-api-global-truth-machine): Prediction markets are the most honest signal about what the world believes will happen. Polymarket's API exposes that signal programmatical
- [TypeScript 7.0 RC: the compiler is now Go, and it's 10x faster](https://devrels.xyz/articles/typescript-7-rc-native-go-compiler): TypeScript 7.0 rewrites the compiler in Go — 10x faster builds, parallel type-checking, a rebuilt watch mode, and breaking changes to defaul
- [The deploy gap: what Block's App Kit teaches Solana builders](https://devrels.xyz/articles/solana-app-deploy-gap-block-appkit): Block shipped 1,000+ internal AI-generated apps safely by solving the deploy gap — the space between 'I built it' and 'anyone can use it wit
- [Helius: enhanced transactions, webhooks, DAS API, smart transactions](https://devrels.xyz/articles/helius-webhooks-enhanced-transactions): Helius parses raw Solana transactions into typed events — NFT_SALE, SWAP, TOKEN_TRANSFER — and pushes them to your webhook. Plus DAS API for

## Featured developer tools
- [solana-keychain](https://devrels.xyz/resources/solana-keychain) (Library): Framework-agnostic Solana transaction signing with 13 provider backends — Memory, Privy, Turnkey, AWS KMS, Fireblocks, GCP KMS, Dfns, Para, 
- [solana-private-channels](https://devrels.xyz/resources/solana-private-channels) (Infrastructure): Enterprise payment channel infrastructure on Solana mainnet — private transactions with instant finality, RBAC, SPL token escrow/withdrawal 

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