H HITTINCORNERS Guides

Understand Solana DeFi
before you use it.

Plain-English explanations of how swaps, lending, liquid staking, and yield farming actually work on Solana — what the real risks are, and which protocols are worth knowing about. No hype, no invented numbers.

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Guides

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Guide 01

Cross-Chain Bridge Security, Explained

Why bridges are historically the most-hacked category of crypto infrastructure, and how to reduce your risk when moving assets across chains.
02 Guide

Getting Started with Solana DeFi

The essentials before you connect a wallet to your first Solana DeFi protocol: setup, terminology, and a sane first move.

03 Guide

How Airdrop Farming Actually Works

An honest look at how airdrop farming works on protocols like Bulk Exchange, and why it carries real risk of wasted effort.

04 Guide

How to Lend USDC on Solana

A practical guide to supplying USDC to a Solana lending market to earn yield, without borrowing against it or taking on leverage.

Reviews

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Review 01

Backpack

A Solana self-custody wallet with a built-in exchange and an xNFT ecosystem of app-like executable NFTs you can run inside it.
02 Review

BlazeStake

A Solana liquid staking protocol issuing bSOL that deliberately directs stake toward smaller, independent validators for decentralization.

03 Review

Bulk Exchange

A newer Solana-native perpetuals DEX for leveraged long/short trading against pooled liquidity, competing with more established perps venues.

04 Review

Drift

One of the most established Solana perps DEXs, built around a cross-margin account spanning perpetuals, spot trading, and lending.

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Decentralized Exchanges

Swap tokens directly from your wallet across Solana DEXs and aggregators, without a centralized order book or custodian.

02

Lending & Borrowing

Supply assets to earn yield, or borrow against posted collateral, through on-chain Solana money markets and rate curves.

03

Liquid Staking

Stake SOL and receive a liquid token representing your stake, still usable as collateral or liquidity elsewhere in DeFi.

04

Yield Farming

Provide liquidity to Solana AMM pools or stake LP positions to earn trading fees plus incentive token rewards.

05

Wallets

Self-custody software and hardware wallets for holding SOL and tokens and signing Solana transactions directly.

06

OTC Marketplaces

Over-the-counter venues for negotiating larger trades directly between counterparties, outside a public order book.

07

Index Platforms

Products that bundle multiple Solana assets into a single token or position, similar to a diversified index fund.

08

NFT Lending

Borrow against an NFT as collateral, or supply liquidity that others borrow against theirs, without selling it.