Solana guide library
Solana payments and real-world applications
Choose a use case, then trace what moves on-chain and what depends on an off-chain service. For payments, start with the payment instruction and continue through confirmation, reconciliation and payout.
Build a payment workflow
- Solana in the real world
Follow concrete Solana use cases from customer action to settlement. See which parts happen onchain and which depend on businesses, servers or physical infrastructure.
- Accept stablecoin payments
Choose direct receipt or a processor, specify an invoice, validate token transfers and handle partial, duplicate and late payments before fulfilment.
- Solana Pay links and QR
Read Solana Pay transfer and transaction requests. Understand recipients, token mints, references, memos and the checks required before fulfilling an order.
- Payment idempotency
Separate invoice IDs, transaction signatures and receipt identities. Design durable uniqueness, crash recovery and onchain enforcement where required.
- Payment reconciliation
Build a payment ledger that handles partial receipts, duplicates, late payments and processor settlement without confusing a transfer with an order.
- Payouts and redemption
Distinguish receiving USDC from issuer redemption, exchange sale and bank payout. Trace amounts, eligibility and evidence across the full route.
- Fiat off-ramps
Check eligibility and asset-network support, trace custody and conversion, and compare the final bank amount rather than one advertised fee.
- Bridges and CCTP
Compare wrapped assets and native USDC burn-and-mint. Track the source transaction, attestation and destination receipt without confusing their completion.
Understand assets and their rights
- Digital assets and NFTs
Understand what an NFT or digital asset records, where its media lives, who can change it and which application or licence gives it practical use.
- Metaplex Core
Read the Core asset model, distinguish ownership from update powers and understand how collection and plugin configuration affects lifecycle actions.
- Metadata and media storage
Trace an asset through its metadata and media references. Understand content identity, pinning, mutable authorities and a practical missing-image diagnosis.
- Game assets and rights
Inspect a game item’s onchain control, game-server rules, media and licence. Understand transfer restrictions, interoperability and what survives a shutdown.
- Tokenized real-world assets
Understand what a real-world-asset token represents. Follow issuer backing, investor eligibility, corporate actions and the difference between a market sale and redemption.
Inspect physical infrastructure
- DePIN on Solana
Follow wireless service, measurements, Data Credits and rewards. Separate hardware operation, token accounting and actual operator profitability.