Helius Engineering Blog

Learn the fundamentals of cryptographic primitives, and how primitives such as hash functions and Merkle trees are essential to blockchains

Learn about consensus algorithms, their importance, how they coordinate network participants, and the importance of time in blockchain technology

Learn about QUIC and how it has improved Solana's network

Learn the importance of privacy and how to send SOL privately using Elusiv and the Light Protocol

Start your Solana DeFi journey by building a Jupiter Swap app. Learn the UX flow of adding a Jupiter Swap component into your application.

Learn how to submit Solana transactions with Durable Nonces by sending an offline transaction using JavaScript.

Learn to modify Solana NFTs that are set up through the compressed program.

Solana Pay is a standard protocol & set of reference implementations that enable decentralised payments.

Learn how to deserialize raw account data on Solana.

This blog aims to shed light on what file system wallets are, how to create them, and how to utilize them.

Demystify the inner workings of Solana RPCs, what makes them function, and how they differ from RPCs on other networks.

We demonstrate how to integrate Solana Pay into a Shopify store - looking over both the merchant set up & customer checkout flow.

An analysis of Helius vs other RPC providers on Solana.

The story behind Helius RPCs and their evolution in the Solana ecosystem.

Implementing a simple discord sales bot for NFT collections on Solana using Helius's Webhooks.

A deep look into Token-2022 and how it will power the next generation of tokens on Solana.

Finally a way to reliably stream account (or program account) updates with fault-tolerance and low latency.

Demystify the inner workings of Solana RPCs, what makes them function, and how they differ from RPCs on Ethereum.

Listening to On-chain Events on Solana with Geyser, Websockets, or Webhooks.

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