Meteora is Solana liquidity infrastructure. Its DLMM splits price into discrete bins, giving zero-slippage swaps inside a bin, volatility-aware dynamic fees and native on-chain limit orders — plus a full token-launch stack.
Orca is a Solana DEX built around Whirlpools, its concentrated-liquidity pools where providers choose their own price range. Staking ORCA gives xORCA, and 40% of protocol fees buy ORCA to lift its value.
Bottom line: a “Solana AI agent” is autonomous software — often built on the open-source Solana Agent Kit — that can execute on-chain actions like swaps, transfers, and staking on your behalf; the technology is real and growing fast, but it's only as safe as the wallet permissions you hand it.
Bottom line: SNS lets you replace a long Solana wallet address with a short, human-readable .sol domain name — a one-time NFT purchase (no renewal fees) that wallets like Phantom can resolve directly.
Bottom line: launching a Solana NFT collection means choosing Metaplex's Candy Machine (Core or legacy) for a code-driven launch, or a no-code launchpad like LaunchMyNFT — either way, prepare matched image+metadata pairs, set mint rules with Candy Guards, and test on devnet first.
Bottom line: Kamino, Save, and MarginFi are Solana's three main direct stablecoin-lending markets, Lulo is an aggregator that auto-routes across them, and each layer — lending, aggregation, and curated vaults — adds a different risk on top of yield.
Bottom line: Jupiter Perps has the deepest liquidity (~$2.5B TVL) but only 3 pairs, Drift supports 40+ markets at up to 101x leverage, and Pacifica has the lowest fees but far less liquidity — all as of February 2026.
Bottom line: to move assets from another chain onto Solana, connect a wallet on a cross-chain bridge like Wormhole or deBridge, then choose the chain and token.
Solana's 65,000 TPS is a lab benchmark for simple transfers, not a live ceiling. Real mainnet throughput in mid-2026 runs roughly 1,500–2,000 TPS (peaks ~6,000+); Firedancer, live on mainnet since Dec 2025, is narrowing the gap.
Kamino runs a single unified lending pool with risk-tiered assets and is Solana's largest money market by deposits; MarginFi (mrgnlend) pairs a cross-collateral global pool with isolated pools for riskier tokens and is mid-transition into a broader platform called Project 0 — check both protocols' own dashboards for current TVL and rates before depositing.
Jupiter's Recurring order type (still widely called "DCA") splits one purchase into scheduled on-chain trades from your own non-custodial wallet: pick a pair, set total amount + number of suborders + interval, confirm. 0.1% platform fee; cancel anytime but cannot pause/resume.
To buy SOL in Japan, use an FSA-registered exchange: open account, complete KYC, deposit yen, buy SOL, optionally self-custody. Crypto gains are generally taxed as miscellaneous income.