Solana — Skills Directory

Solana is a high-performance blockchain optimized for speed and low transaction costs. This master skill provides a directory of all Solana-related capabilities and helps you pick the right one.

Solana

Skills by Category

💱 DeFi — Swaps & Trading

1. jupiter

Solana's leading DEX aggregator — swaps, limit orders, DCA, perpetuals, and lending via the Jupiter platform.

Use when: Swapping tokens on Solana, setting up limit orders or dollar-cost averaging, trading perps, or working with Jupiter's API/SDK.

2. raydium

Raydium Protocol — CLMM (Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker), CPMM, AMM pools, farming, and Trade API.

Use when: Providing liquidity on Raydium, creating pools, yield farming, or using Raydium's trading APIs.

3. orca

Orca Whirlpools — Solana's leading concentrated liquidity AMM. Covers swaps, liquidity provision, pool creation, position management, and fee harvesting.

Use when: Managing concentrated liquidity positions on Orca, creating whirlpools, or harvesting fees.

4. meteora

Meteora DeFi SDK — liquidity pools, Dynamic AMMs, Alpha Vaults, bonding curves, and token launches.

Use when: Working with Meteora's DLMM pools, creating liquidity strategies, or launching tokens via Meteora.

5. pumpfun

PumpFun Protocol — permissionless token launches, bonding curves, and PumpSwap integrations.

Use when: Launching tokens on Solana via pump.fun, trading bonding curve tokens, or integrating PumpSwap.

🏦 DeFi — Lending & Yield

6. kamino

Kamino Finance — lending, borrowing, liquidity management, and leverage strategies on Solana.

Use when: Supplying collateral, borrowing against assets, managing Kamino vaults, or optimizing leverage positions.

7. lulo

Lulo — Solana's lending aggregator that routes deposits to the highest-yielding protocols.

Use when: Earning yield on Solana deposits, comparing lending rates across protocols, or managing Lulo positions.

8. sanctum

Sanctum — liquid staking protocol covering LST swaps and Infinity pool operations.

Use when: Working with liquid staking tokens (LSTs), swapping between LSTs, or using Sanctum's Infinity pools.

🌉 Cross-Chain & Infrastructure

9. debridge

deBridge Protocol — cross-chain bridges and token transfers between Solana and other chains.

Use when: Bridging assets to/from Solana, cross-chain token transfers, or working with deBridge's DLN infrastructure.

10. helius

Helius RPC infrastructure — DAS API, Enhanced Transactions API, webhooks, and developer tooling.

Use when: Setting up RPC endpoints, parsing enriched transaction data, subscribing to webhooks, or using Helius APIs.

11. pyth

Pyth Network oracle — real-time price feeds with confidence intervals for on-chain applications.

Use when: Reading price data from Pyth oracles, working with confidence intervals, or integrating price feeds into smart contracts.

🖼️ NFTs & Digital Assets

12. metaplex

Metaplex Protocol — Core NFTs, Token Metadata, Bubblegum compressed NFTs, and Candy Machine launches.

Use when: Creating NFTs on Solana, managing token metadata, launching collections via Candy Machine, or working with compressed NFTs.

🛡️ Security & Multisig

13. squads

Squads Protocol — multisig wallets and account abstraction on Solana.

Use when: Setting up multisig wallets on Solana, managing shared custody, or working with Squads Program for governance and treasury management.

🛠️ Development & Tooling

14. solana-kit

@solana/kit — the modern zero-dependency JavaScript SDK from Anza for building Solana applications.

Use when: Building Solana dApps from scratch, working with the latest Solana JS SDK, or creating transaction builders and signers.

Skill Selection Guide

Task	Recommended Skill
Swap tokens on Solana	`jupiter`
Provide concentrated liquidity	`orca` or `raydium`
Launch a token	`pumpfun` or `meteora`
Lend/borrow assets	`kamino`
Earn yield on deposits	`lulo`
Liquid stake SOL	`sanctum`
Bridge assets cross-chain	`debridge`
Set up RPC/webhooks	`helius`
Read price feeds	`pyth`
Create/launch NFTs	`metaplex`
Set up multisig wallet	`squads`
Build a Solana dApp	`solana-kit`

Quickstart

For a new Solana project, ask the user what they're building:

Token swap/trading → jupiter (best aggregator) or protocol-specific (orca, raydium, meteora)
Token launch → pumpfun (memecoin) or meteora (structured launch)
Lending/yield → kamino (full-featured) or lulo (yield aggregator)
NFT project → metaplex
Infrastructure/RPC → helius
Full dApp development → solana-kit

Resources

Solana Skills Hub: solana.com/skills
Solana Foundation Skills: github.com/solana-foundation/solana-dev-skill
Community Skills: github.com/sendaifun/skills
Documentation: solana.com/docs
Explorer: solscan.io
Faucet: faucet.solana.com

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