Mike Hale
All authorsMike is the Solana Technical Writer at Quicknode, where he creates in-depth guides and sample apps covering the latest Solana tech stack. He draws on 25+ years of software development experience to help developers build reliable apps on Solana.
Recent guides
Build a rules-based Solana trading bot that discovers trending tokens with the Tokens API and routes swaps through Quicknode's Metis Jupiter Swap API.
Build recurring USDC payments on Solana with the Subscriptions program. Publish a plan, collect each billing cycle, gate access, and stream onchain events.
Build a Solana token swap UI with the Titan Meta-Aggregation API on Quicknode, covering price quotes, a multi-provider swap race, composable instructions, and execution.
Learn to grind a custom Solana vanity wallet address with the native solana-keygen grind command and with the GPU-accelerated vanity tool.
Learn how to attach onchain notes to your transactions using the Pinocchio-based Solana Memo program and Solana Kit.
Use the Tokens.xyz Assets API to find every onchain variant of a Solana asset, compare liquidity and risk, and time entries with live trade data.
Build a Solana Anchor program with Switchboard Randomness On-Demand to produce verifiable, tamper-proof onchain random numbers via a commit-reveal flow.
Build a live SOL perpetual futures dashboard on Solana using the Phoenix REST and WebSocket API market stats, orderbook, candles, trades, and funding.
Learn how to build a real-time Jupiter Limit Order monitor in Rust using Solana gRPC (Yellowstone-compatible Geyser gRPC) and Vixen's IDL-based parser codegen on Quicknode.
Recent sample apps
Jupiter Ultra Swap Demo
A single-page Solana swap UI demonstrating token swaps using Jupiter Ultra API
Phoenix Perps Dashboard
A real-time SOL perpetual futures dashboard built with React and TypeScript, powered by Phoenix's public REST and WebSocket API. No API key required.
Titan Meta-Aggregation Swap
A single-page Solana swap UI built on the Titan Gateway Meta-Aggregation API