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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

  1. 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.

  2. Accept stablecoin payments

    Choose direct receipt or a processor, specify an invoice, validate token transfers and handle partial, duplicate and late payments before fulfilment.

  3. 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.

  4. Payment idempotency

    Separate invoice IDs, transaction signatures and receipt identities. Design durable uniqueness, crash recovery and onchain enforcement where required.

  5. Payment reconciliation

    Build a payment ledger that handles partial receipts, duplicates, late payments and processor settlement without confusing a transfer with an order.

  6. Payouts and redemption

    Distinguish receiving USDC from issuer redemption, exchange sale and bank payout. Trace amounts, eligibility and evidence across the full route.

  7. Fiat off-ramps

    Check eligibility and asset-network support, trace custody and conversion, and compare the final bank amount rather than one advertised fee.

  8. 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

  1. 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.

  2. Metaplex Core

    Read the Core asset model, distinguish ownership from update powers and understand how collection and plugin configuration affects lifecycle actions.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  1. DePIN on Solana

    Follow wireless service, measurements, Data Credits and rewards. Separate hardware operation, token accounting and actual operator profitability.

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