Introducing the Builder Series Guest Blog Program

Advancing high-quality research and developer education is core to our mission of increasing the economic potential of the world's developers with crypto.

Today, we’re opening up the Builder Series guest blogging program to the wider Solana community. If you’re a top analyst, technical founder, or open-source developer with valuable insights to share, we invite you to pitch and publish your articles with us.

By sharing knowledge, we strengthen the ecosystem, build better products, and accelerate Solana.

What are the benefits of writing a Builder Series article?

By opening our blog to a wider range of voices, we aim to spotlight ambitious founders, cracked tooling developers, and impactful products that deserve greater recognition.

The key benefits are:

Establish Topical Authority

Establish yourself and your project as a leading authority on a specific topic within the Solana ecosystem.

By authoring articles on topics related to your core business and earning backlinks from authoritative domains, search engines like Google and answer engines like ChatGPT are more likely to rank, cite, and mention your brand in their results.

Gain Visibility

Bring visibility to your work and ideas by getting in front of Solana developers. Builder Series articles are published on the Helius website and are typically (case-by-case basis) promoted across our social channels, email newsletter, and RSS feed, maximizing visibility among builders who matter.

Grow your Community

With more visibility, comes more contributors, users, and feedback. Product launches are not finished once the code is written — they’re finished once they’ve been shipped, shared, and promoted.

Who should write guest articles?

Ideal writers for the Builder Series guest blog program include Solana developers, open-source maintainers, founders launching new Solana primitives, security auditors, and research experts focused on topics such as cryptography, zero knowledge, and privacy.

Guest Blog Examples

To date, we’ve worked with incredible teams to feature their products and share their expertise:

• Solana Foundation — Confidential Balances
• Sphere — Stablecoin Payments
• Dune — Data Dashboards
• Privy — Web3 UX
• txtx — Surfpool

And many other teams including Turnkey, Arcium, Dynamic, Crossmint, Portal, Pine Analytics, Overclock, and more.

What are the guest blog requirements?

We have a high bar for quality, and all Builder Series articles must meet our quality requirements before they are published. To ensure the highest quality content for our readers, we require all submissions to have uniqueness, expertise, depth, accuracy, and clarity.

1. Uniqueness

The topic should be unique and not already extensively covered on the Helius blog. We're looking for fresh perspectives and new insights.

2. Expertise

The author must be an expert on the topic or use case they are writing on. We want to hear from those who truly understand the subject matter.

3. Depth

Articles should offer a deep, comprehensive exploration of the topic, going well beyond surface-level explanations to deliver real value drawn from firsthand experience. To ensure depth, submissions should include practical examples, tutorials, comparisons, tables, and original diagrams where appropriate.

4. Accuracy

Submissions must be technically accurate and precise. Articles should not provide approximations, use vague language, or reference biased sources. All articles must be fact-checked.

5. Clarity

Content must be concise. It must educate readers using simple language. Articles must avoid unnecessary jargon and flowery language wherever possible. These articles should communicate facts, real-world examples, and minimize the reader’s time-to-value.

High Quality Guest Blog Example

A great example of blog quality is this Builder Series article from Arcium on the topic of privacy. This article was written by privacy experts, explains the shortcomings of today’s solutions, and explains in extreme detail what Arcium is building to solve today’s privacy challenges. In short, it comprehensively covers the topic of privacy on Solana.

The team also designed custom diagrams to visually communicate how their solution works, and included authoritative external links to give readers opportunities to deepen their knowledge.

This article was also first and foremost written to educate readers about privacy. It was not a soft advertisement to use their product or a surface-level explainer.

How to Pitch a Guest Blog

Complete this pitch form to submit your article idea. In your pitch, please include the blog’s topic, a rough outline, and a personalized message.

Topic

Your blog topic must be unique to the Helius blog and provide meaningful value to Solana developers today.

In your submission, include the primary topic, a working title, and a one sentence description of the article.

• Topic — Pinocchio
• Title — How to Build Solana Programs with Pinocchio
• Description — This article provides an in-depth look at building programs with Pinocchio, exploring the benefits and tradeoffs.

Outline

The outline should highlight the main sections of your article, and use headers to communicate the article’s structure and flow.

For example, an article outline for Pinocchio may look like this:

• H2 — What is the Pinocchio smart contract library?
• H2 — How is Pinocchio more performant than solana-program?
• • H3 — How do Pinocchio entrypoints deserialize program inputs?
  • H3 — How does Pinocchio enable developers to optimize CUs?
  • H3 — Pinocchio CU Optimization Example: P-token
• H2 — Using Pinocchio with Anchor
• Etc…

Personalized Message

Your message must clearly communicate your expertise as an author and why your topic is relevant to developers on Solana. Please keep your message clear and concise: a few sentences are sufficient.

We won’t consider or respond to spam or low-effort submissions.

Guest Blog Publishing Process

Once your pitch is accepted, here's what you can expect from our publishing process:

1. Outline — we'll build on your outline and align on the final structure
2. Draft — you write the first draft according to the outline
3. Edit — we edit your draft for grammar, clarity, and SEO
4. Review — we'll complete expert reviews to ensure accuracy
5. Design — we’ll design a featured image and brand any diagrams
6. Stage — we'll upload your draft and share a preview link
7. Publish — we’ll create your author profile and publish your article

Once the article is live, we’ll work with you to share on social media. Articles will also be sent to our email subscribers and RSS subscribers.

Start Writing

High-quality research and developer education are crucial for accelerating Solana’s ecosystem and promoting crypto globally.

If you’re interested in publishing with Helius, submissions are now open.