Guides

• 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.

• 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.

• How Airdrop Farming Actually Works (and Its Real Risks)

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

• How to Lend USDC on Solana

  A practical guide to supplying USDC to a Solana lending market to earn yield, without borrowing.

• How to Stake SOL via Jito

  A practical walkthrough of liquid staking SOL through Jito to receive jitoSOL.

• How to Swap Tokens on Solana

  How token swaps and DEX aggregators work on Solana, and what to check before confirming any trade.

• How to Use Jupiter

  A practical walkthrough of swapping, limit orders, and DCA on Jupiter, Solana's main swap aggregator.

• Impermanent Loss on Solana DEXs, Explained

  What impermanent loss actually is, why it happens to liquidity providers, and how to think about it against fee income.

• LST Depeg Risk on Solana, Explained

  Why liquid staking tokens can trade below their fair value, when it tends to happen, and how to reduce your exposure.

• Solana DeFi: An Overview of the Ecosystem

  How Solana's DeFi ecosystem fits together: DEXs, lending, liquid staking, yield farming, and the wallets underneath all of it.

• Solana DEX Security Risks

  The real security risks specific to trading on Solana DEXs: smart contracts, MEV, sandwich attacks, and fake tokens.

• Solana Lending Risk and Liquidation, Explained

  How collateral, loan-to-value, and liquidation actually work in Solana lending markets — and how people actually lose money borrowing.

• Staking-Adjacent Flows on Solana Perpetuals Platforms

  How staking, vault, or reward-token mechanisms on perpetuals platforms like Bulk Exchange generally work, and how to evaluate them cautiously.

• The Complete Guide to Solana DeFi Risk

  Every major risk category in Solana DeFi in one place: smart contracts, custody, oracle failure, rug pulls, bridges, and regulation.

• The Complete Guide to Solana DEXs

  How Solana's decentralized exchanges and aggregators work, the main players, and how to choose between them.

• The Complete Guide to Solana Lending

  How Solana lending markets work, the main protocols, and how to think about supplying versus borrowing.

• The Complete Guide to Solana Liquid Staking

  How liquid staking works on Solana, the main protocols and their tradeoffs, and the risks of holding an LST.

• The Complete Guide to Solana Wallets

  How to choose and set up a Solana wallet, hardware wallet options, and the seed-phrase security basics that matter most.

• The Complete Guide to Yield Farming on Solana

  How yield farming actually works on Solana, where the yield comes from, and how to size a farming position sensibly.