How to Connect to Solana

It's easy to connect to your Solana nodes.

If you haven't already configured any Solana infrastructure, visit the Solana marketplace page to learn more about Blockdaemon's Solana options.

Once you have purchased your Blockdaemon Solana infrastructure, Your Blockdaemon Technical Account Manager (TAM) will send you the necessary access credentials.

There are multiple ways to use these to connect to your node/cluster. In this guide, we will cover the following simple methods of connection to your infrastructure:

Solana RPC Connection via cURL

Step 1 - Your TAM will send you the following access credentials:

Your Unique Endpoint URL
Your Unique Auth Token
Please Note: These are one-time view, so make sure to copy them. Step 2 - Add your access credentials to a cURL request.
Example 1

- curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json'  
  -X POST 'YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL'  
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN'  
  --data-raw '{"method":"getEpochInfo","id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'

Replace YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL with the Endpoint URL sent by your Blockdaemon TAM
Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token sent by your Blockdaemon
Example 2

  curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json'  
  -X POST 'YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL?auth=YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN'  
  --data-raw '{"method":"getEpochInfo","id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'

  - Replace `YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL` with the Endpoint URL sent by your Blockdaemon TAM  
  - Replace `YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN` with the Auth Token sent by your Blockdaemon TAM

Step 3

Execute your request and you will now be successfully connected to your Blockdaemon Solana Infrastructure
The result should look like this:

  {  
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",  
      "result": {  
          "absoluteSlot": 132743177,  
          "blockHeight": 120380369,  
          "epoch": 307,  
          "slotIndex": 119177,  
          "slotsInEpoch": 432000,  
          "transactionCount": 72714796098  
      },  
      "id": 1  
  }

Solana Connection via WebSocket

Step 1 - Your TAM will send you the following access credentials:

Your Unique Endpoint URL
Your Unique Auth Token

Please Note: These are one-time view, so make sure to copy them. Step 2 - Add your access credentials to a websockets connection request. Examples are shown below:

WebSocket Connection Example 1: How to connect using wscat

  wscat -H "X-Auth-Token: \<YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN>" -c \<YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL>

Replace YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL with the Endpoint URL sent by your Blockdaemon TAM
Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token sent by your Blockdaemon TAM

WebSocket Connection Example 2: How to connect using wsdump

  wsdump --headers "X-Auth-Token: \<YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN>" \<YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL>

Replace YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL with the Endpoint URL sent by your Blockdaemon TAM
Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token sent by your Blockdaemon TAM

Step 3 - Subscribe to one or more WebSocket Endpoints. Examples are shown below:

WebSocket Subscriptions Example 1: How to subscribe to slotSubscription

  {"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"slotSubscribe","params":\[]}

WebSocket Subscriptions Example 2: How to subscribe to accountSubscribe

  {"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"accountSubscribe","params":["<ADDRESS>",{"encoding: "jsonParsed"}]}

Replace ADDRESS with the address you want to subscribe to, e.g. JTmFx5zX9mM94itfk2nQcJnQQDPjcv4UPD7SYj6xDCV

Solana RPC Connection via cURL

Solana Connection via WebSocket

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