lot of developers exploring Solana right now
and for good reason — there is no better place to build faster, cheaper, and more scalable applications in crypto
here are some unstructured recommendations:
- smart contract frameworks: @anchorlang, @seahorse_lang, nautilus
- languages: rust, C, python, solidity (and soon Move) for smart contracts — anything you want for reads/writes — everything is via the JSON RPC API
it is a *myth* that you must know Rust to write Solana code
- testing: bankrun (https://t.co/qNExHmVagK)
- snippets: codigo, thethirdweb, chatGPT, solana cookbook
- price APIs: @JupiterExchange, birdeye
- MEV infra: @jito
- general starting place: solana .com /developers
- RPCs, APIs, education, indexing, webhooks, data streaming: @heliuslabs
^ DM me if you have any questions about this
- rpc gateway: ironforge
- nft stuff: metaplex
- storage: @GenesysGo, @irys_xyz
- payments APIs: @sphere_labs, @getcode, @TipLinkOfficial, @solanapay