Guides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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