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The definitive guide to building financial products on the world's most active blockchain.

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BuildingFinancial Softwareon Solana

The definitive guide tobuilding financial products on theworld's most active blockchain.

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Mike MacCana

“If this book had existed sooner, I would have been very early to Solana. It’s still very early. First inning. All financial and AI players need to pick this book up and start building.”

— Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Cofounder of Venmo
Mike MacCana, author of Building Financial Software on Solana

3 years of teaching Solana, in one book.

Mike MacCana has taught Solana to hundreds of thousands of people on YouTube. He is a top-ten contributor on Solana Stack Exchange, a two-time winner at the Solana Sandstorm hackathon, and maintains multiple popular Solana libraries, as well as the most comprehensive open library of financial Solana programs: the companion repository this book is built on. He created the Solana Foundation's Professional Education Program, a four-day course taught to hundreds of students, from blockchain clubs in Romania to Ivy League universities.

Quicknode is a Y Combinator-backed company, the first commercial RPC provider to support Solana, one of the largest blockchain infrastructure providers in the world, and provides blockchain techologies to major banks, card companies and trading firms.

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by Mike MacCana

10

Complete programs

built, tested and explained with real-world examples.

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Major frameworks

The latest Anchor 1, Anchor 2 and Quasar.

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// What you will build

A book about building financial products

There are plenty of videos, courses, and blog posts about how Solana works. This isn't one of them. Building Financial Software on Solana explains how financial products work as Solana programs.

Fundraisers

Raising capital onchain, with contributions pooled toward a funding goal.

Prediction markets

Parimutuel betting markets where the winners split the funds of the losers.

Exchanges

Building NYSE and NASDAQ style order-book exchanges.

AMMs

Exchanges that handle low-liquidity assets, including token launches.

Lending platforms

Collateralized platforms where borrowers get assets without selling their existing positions, and lenders get yield.

Managed funds

Onchain ETFs, where a fund manager allocates investor resources to target assets and earns returns.

Options

Contracts to buy or sell an asset at a set price before a set date.

Perpetual futures

Leveraged long and short positions.

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