Intro Solana makes use of independent nodes which have the responsibility of working to confirm programs and outputs of programs on one of the three Solana clusters, Devnet, Testnet or Mainnet Beta. A cluster is made up of a set of validators that work to confirm transactions. These are owned and operated by individuals. These nodes are also responsible for storing data and transaction history which is shared amongst the nodes. A node can become a validator node if it is being used to vote on valid blocks and if SOL is delegated to the validator identity it can become a leader node. This is the link to the information on how to become a validator. Not all nodes can become leader nodes or vote to confirm blocks. They still serve the other functionalities of validator nodes, but since they cannot vote they are primarily used to respond to requests on the blockchain. These are RPC nodes. RPC stands for remote procedure call, and these RPC nodes are used to send transactions through the blockchain. Solana maintains three public API nodes, one for each cluster which are Devnet, Mainnet Beta, and Testnet. These API nodes are what allow users to connect to the cluster. To connect to Devnet users can use: https://api.devnet.solana.com This is the node for Devnet, and it is rate limited.

Introduction Metaboss was made to help out users to interact with their tokens and its main functionalities allow to get data from nonfungible tokens and even update them. We will begin by installing the program and then proceed to use several of its commands and features. Installation To install you can copy paste the following command into your terminal. bash <(curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samuelvanderwaal/metaboss/main/scripts/install.sh) //Result ✅ Installation successful: type 'metaboss' to start using it.

working on this section Sugar was introduced by Metaplex to make operating the candy machine an easier process. It also introduced the use of a cache file that contains information about a collection that can now be stored onchain. It also increase the overall speed of the process from uploading to the mint. The first step is to install it. For MacOs and Linux: bash <(curl -sSf https://sugar.metaplex.com/install.sh)

I'm Hector and I have created this guide to help you launch your first NFT collection on Solana. If you're interested in working together, you can contact me on Twitter: @HectorNBardales. At the end of the guide I have added resources and links to discord groups where you can ask questions. This guide doesn't replace the official documents of the programs that are used but instead compiles information so that it can hopefully be easier to understand and use. If you have any questions, you can leave them as comments or join either the Metaplex or Hashlips Discord server and post them there. Reasons for Update The original guide Solana NFTs: Everything you need is still available, but all the necessary information for the new versions of the Metaplex software, Hashlips, and others will be documented here from now on. Some of the changes are:

Solana is a highly scalable and secure open source blockchain that incorporates a new method of timekeeping originally proposed by its founder Anatoly Yakovenko. Solana solves the time issue that other decentralized networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum depend on by fixing the trust issue between nodes that arises from synchronization in distributed systems. Now imagine if a node wanted to receive some message along with a timestamp. Simply obtaining this timestamp isn’t secure at all. One solution to this is having the message be reviewed by multiple nodes that would then verify this timestamp. After a threshold for the number of nodes required to verify it through signatures has been reached, the node receiving the message can now trust the timestamp. In Solana, nodes don’t need to wait for the verification of additional nodes because it uses a verifiable delay function, a cryptographic algorithm. This VDF, verifiable delay function, is evaluated through sequential steps. This method utilizes a specific parameter of nLockTime known as block height instead of timestamp. This nlocktime is a parameter that asks for a specific time so that it is accepted. In order to secure the output, SHA 256 hashing is used. The Secure Hashing Algorithm 256 secures it by providing the hash pre image resistance. This means that the generated content in the output hash cannot be reversed. This allows for a different form of verification known as Proof of History, PoH. Solana uses uses this to check that an event has happened before and after another set of events. This allows for nodes to operate trust free. In addition to the different methods of transaction verification, Solana also states that it has a theoretical limit of 710,000 transactions per second. It achieves this by a applying a method that allows for multiple transactions without causing interference known as optimistic concurrency control.

Use new guide linked below :::success :bird: Twitter @HectorNBardales DM if you want to work together! ::: :::danger IMPORTANT Candy Machine V1 and V2 are no longer being used. Please use Sugar. You can use the new guide I made. :::