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Articles credited to the Solana Journal editorial team are researched, written and edited collaboratively by the newsroom, and reviewed by an editor before publication. We hold no paid relationships with the projects we cover.
A practical system for tracking crypto across wallets and exchanges, keeping records you can rely on at tax time, sizing positions sensibly and protecting your holdings, without handing anyone your keys.
Solana Journal Editorial Team4 min read
A practical checklist for researching a Solana token before you buy: verifying the mint address, checking token authorities and extensions, reading holder distribution and liquidity, and spotting the red flags behind most losses.
Solana Journal Editorial Team5 min read
Why meme coins exist, how they launch on Solana through bonding curves and liquidity pools, what drives their prices, and why most of them end up worthless.
Solana Journal Editorial Team4 min read
Dollar-cost averaging is a strategy; recurring purchases are a tool for carrying it out. Here is how DCA works with a worked example, how exchange and on-chain recurring buys compare, and the limits of the approach.
Solana Journal Editorial Team4 min read
Limit orders let you choose your price instead of taking the market's. Here is how they work on centralised exchanges and on Solana, how they compare with market and stop orders, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Solana Journal Editorial Team4 min read
How to set up, back up and use a Phantom wallet safely: creating your recovery phrase, receiving and sending SOL, swapping, connecting to apps, and recognising the scams that target wallet users.
Solana Journal Editorial Team5 min read
An independent explainer on Jupiter, the Solana swap aggregator: what it does, how routing works, its limit and DCA order tools, what you pay, and how to avoid the imitation sites that target its users.
Solana Journal Editorial Team5 min read
Liquidity pools are the engine behind most decentralized exchanges. Learn how they price trades, what liquidity providers earn, how impermanent loss works with worked examples, and how concentrated liquidity changes the picture.
Solana Journal Editorial Team5 min read
Swapping, staking, lending and providing liquidity on Solana, explained from first principles, with the risks of each spelled out and a sensible way to get started.
Solana Journal Editorial Team4 min read
What actually happens between pressing Swap and seeing new tokens in your wallet: quotes and routing, token accounts, slippage, priority fees, failed transactions and how to protect yourself.
Solana Journal Editorial Team5 min read
Decentralized exchanges let you trade crypto directly from your own wallet, without handing your funds to a company. Here is how they work, the main designs, what you pay, and the risks to understand first.
Solana Journal Editorial Team5 min read
A plain-English tour of the Solana network: what SOL is used for, how accounts and programs work, why transactions are cheap and fast, and what changed when the Alpenglow consensus upgrade went live.
Solana Journal Editorial Team7 min read