Aaron Milano
All authorsAaron is a developer focused on developer-friendly tooling and educational content. He is passionate about helping builders learn, ship faster, and succeed in the Solana ecosystem.
Recent guides
This guide demonstrates how to use the Scaled UI Amount extension in the Solana Token-2022 program. It covers creating a token, minting, transferring, and updating the UI amount multiplier.
In this guide, we will explore what Jito Bundles are and how to use the Lil' JIT add-on to create and send them to the Jito Validator client using Rust.
This guide will teach you how to use Solana gRPC (Yellowstone-compatible Geyser gRPC) to monitor Solana programs and Carbon to Parse real-time Pump.fun transaction data.
This guide will walk through how to monitor Solana liquidity pools in real-time using Quicknode's Solana gRPC (Yellowstone-compatible Geyser gRPC) and Go. This streaming approach provides near-instantaneous data access with significantly lower latency than traditional RPC polling methods, making it ideal for trading bots, analytics platforms, and DeFi applications.
This guide will teach you how to use Solana gRPC (Yellowstone-compatible Geyser gRPC) with Rust to monitor Solana programs.
A step-by-step guide to building a Solana MCP server for LLM integration, enabling AI/blockchain interactions through natural language.
Learn how to implement privacy-preserving token transactions on Solana using the Token-2022 Confidential Transfer Extension. This comprehensive developer guide covers encrypted balances, zero-knowledge proofs, and step-by-step instructions for creating tokens with hidden amounts.
This guide will give an overview of some common wallets on Solana.
Learn how to protect your Solana transactions from malicious transaction instructions by using Lighthouse assertion instructions in your transaction.
Recent sample apps
Quicknode Solana Staking UI
This application lets users quickly stake to your Solana validator with minimal setup. It comes with pre-configured wallet connections, allowing your users to connect their preferred Solana wallets and stake their tokens directly to your validator node through a simple, streamlined interface.
Solana Action Blinker
The Solana Action Blinker app allows you to create Solana Actions and parse Solana Action URLs into their corresponding actions.
Solana MCP Server
A basic Solana MCP server that gives tools like Claude Desktop (or Cursor) the ability to query the Solana blockchain directly. This integration will enables you to perform tasks like checking wallet balances, viewing token accounts, retrieving transaction details, and analyzing account information—all from the power of your LLM client.
Solana Token Minter
The Solana Token Minter app allows you to create fungible tokens on the Solana blockchain with built-in support for IPFS image uploads.
Solana Wallet Explorer
The Solana Wallet Explorer leverages a Quicknode Solana Endpoint to retrieve token balances, transaction history, and NFTs for a specified wallet on the Solana blockchain.