A fork of the Solana Foundation program examples with current versions, more programs, and additional frameworks.
Each example is available in one or more of the following frameworks:
- ⚓ Anchor — the most popular framework for Solana development. Build with
anchor build, test withpnpm testas defined inAnchor.toml. - 💫 Quasar — a newer, more performant framework with Anchor-compatible ergonomics. Run
pnpm testto execute tests. - 🤥 Pinocchio — a zero-copy, zero-allocation library for Solana programs. Run
pnpm testto execute tests. - 🦀 Native Rust — vanilla Rust using Solana's native crates. Run
pnpm testto execute tests. - 🧬 ASM — hand-written sBPF assembly built with the
sbpftoolchain. Runpnpm build-and-testto build and test.
Note
You don't need to write your own program for basic tasks like creating accounts, transferring SOL, or minting tokens. These are handled by existing programs like the System Program and Token Program.
Start here — the best first finance program to learn on Solana. A neutral account that holds funds until both sides deliver, like a real-estate escrow or a lawyer's trust account. The maker deposits token A and names how much token B they want; when a taker supplies token B, the program swaps both in a single all-or-nothing transaction. This swap is the core idea behind every onchain exchange.
A typical NYSE/NASDAQ-style order book-based exchange. Buyers post bids (the price they'll pay), sellers post asks (the price they'll accept), and a trade happens when a bid and an ask meet. The exchange operator collects fees from trading. Similar to popular Solana exchanges like Openbook and Phoenix.
An exchange with no order book: swaps fill instantly against a shared liquidity pool funded by liquidity providers, who earn a cut of the trading fees. Prices are set algorithmically by the pool's balances. Anyone can create a pool, add or remove liquidity, and swap tokens, with slippage protection on every trade. Similar to Solana exchanges like Raydium and Orca.
Onchain crowdfunding, like Kickstarter or GoFundMe. A creator sets a target amount in a chosen token, and contributors deposit into the fundraiser's account until the goal is reached.
A managed investment fund onchain, like an ETF or mutual fund. Investors deposit USDC for shares, a manager allocates the pool across a basket of assets (here, stocks like TSLAx and NVDAx), and each share's value tracks the fund's net asset value. The manager earns a management fee, and investors redeem a proportional slice of the underlying assets.
A minimal program that logs a greeting.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native 🧬 ASM
Store and retrieve data using Solana accounts.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Use a PDA to store global state — a counter that increments when called.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Save and update per-user state, ensuring users can only modify their own data.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Validate that accounts provided in incoming instructions meet specific criteria.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native 🧬 ASM
Close an account and reclaim its lamports.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Create new accounts on the blockchain.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native 🧬 ASM
Call one program from another — the hand program invokes the lever program to toggle a switch.
Use a PDA to pay rent for creating a new account.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Add parameters to an instruction handler and use them.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Store and retrieve state using PDAs as deterministic account addresses.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Handle accounts that need to grow or shrink in size.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Calculate an account's size to determine the minimum rent-exempt balance.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native
Structure a larger Solana program across multiple files and modules.
Send SOL between two accounts.
⚓ Anchor 💫 Quasar 🤥 Pinocchio 🦀 Native 🧬 ASM
An oracle brings real-world market prices — a dollar, a stock, a token — onchain, like a Bloomberg terminal feeding live quotes. Pyth publishes low-latency prices from institutional sources, each in its own price feed account. This example reads a feed and logs its price, confidence interval, and exponent — the building block an AMM, lending market, or vault uses to value assets.
Create a token mint with a symbol and icon.
Mint an NFT from inside your own program using the Token and Metaplex Token Metadata programs.
Create an NFT collection, mint NFTs, and verify NFTs as part of a collection using Metaplex Token Metadata.
Mint tokens from inside your own program using the Classic Token Program.
Transfer tokens between accounts.
Mint tokens using a PDA as the mint authority, so your program controls token issuance.
Control token transfers using an external secp256k1 delegate signature.
Create token mints, mint tokens, and transfer tokens using Token Extensions.
Prevent certain token actions from occurring within cross-program invocations.
Create new token accounts that are frozen by default.
Create tokens that belong to larger groups using the Group Pointer extension.
Create token accounts whose owning program cannot be changed.
Create tokens that show an interest calculation, updating their displayed balance over time.
Require all transfers to include a descriptive memo.
Store metadata directly inside the token mint account, without needing additional programs.
Create an NFT using the metadata pointer extension, storing onchain metadata (including custom fields) inside the mint.
Allow a designated account to close a token mint.
Use multiple Token Extensions on a single mint at once.
Create tokens that cannot be transferred between accounts.
Create tokens that remain under the control of a designated account, even when transferred elsewhere.
Create tokens with a built-in transfer fee.
A minimal transfer hook that executes custom logic on every token transfer.
Count how many times tokens have been transferred.
Use token account owner data as seeds to derive extra accounts in a transfer hook.
Restrict or allow token transfers using an onchain list managed by a list authority.
Charge an additional fee on every token transfer.
Enable or disable token transfers with an onchain switch.
Restrict transfers so only whitelisted accounts can receive tokens.
Burn compressed NFTs.
Store Metaplex compressed NFTs inside a PDA.
Work with Metaplex compressed NFTs.
PRs welcome! Follow the contributing guidelines and see CHANGELOG.md for release history.