25' MegaHack Workshop Series: Landing Solana Transactions

​Title: Landing Solana Transactions

​Learning outcomes: Participants will learn all the possible ways to optimise a Solana transaction’s success rate.

​Duration: 2.5 hours

​Duration: 2.5 hours

​Format: hands-on workshop using @solana/web3.js to send optimised transactions

​Description: In times of network congestion, landing Solana transactions will be incredibly difficult unless you understand how Compute Units work and include the necessary Compute Budget instructions. Outside of congestion periods, optimising your transactions can lead to a better experience for your end users.

​Outline:

1. ​What are Compute Units?

2. ​How are Priority Fees calculated?

3. ​Code walkthrough: Compute Budget Instructions

4. ​Address Lookup Tables

5. ​Misc:

   1. ​RPCs (Helius)

   2. ​Jito