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What are the differences between Devnet, Testnet, and Mainnet?
Regarding the question if there are more networks available: Yes, there is also localhost which allows you to run a validator locally for dev purposes.
Mainnet-beta: This is the production environment....
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How to get SOL for Solana Testnet?
When you're working locally, you need some SOL in order to send transactions. In non-mainnet environments you can receive SOL by airdropping it to your address
With the CLI you can run the airdrop ...
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Tesnet RPC node lags benhind syncing
My answer to your question is going to start out more general and then get into specifics. Let's start with what catchup is conceptually.
When a Solana validator node joins any of the clusters and ...
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How do we get test stablecoins on Solana like USDC or USDT?
All tokens on Solana that aren't native SOL are referred to as "SPL Tokens" and created using the Token Program (SPL stands for Solana Program Library).
Stablecoins like USDC and USDT are ...
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How to get SOL for Solana Testnet?
for folks that don't have their CLI setup or just need devnet / testnet SOL at a moment's notice, https://solfaucet.com has an airdrop interface that you can access from your browser!
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How do we get test stablecoins on Solana like USDC or USDT?
Let's say you have a program that only accepts tokens like USDC or USDT. On the testnet, Circle has released USDC (https://explorer.solana.com/address/4zMMC9srt5Ri5X14GAgXhaHii3GnPAEERYPJgZJDncDU?...
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How frequent are ledger resets on the public devnet and testnet clusters?
You should use devnet. Testnet is for testing changes to Solana itself, and runs a different version of Solana than main-net or devnet.
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Is there a way to get large amounts of SOL on Devnet/Testnet
Use a local validator for testing if you need these large sums.
Also you're probably going to run serious activity which will be slow on either network and local validator will be faster.
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How to get SOL for Solana Testnet?
There is also this one now https://faucet.solana.com that should be maintained.
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How do I deploy a program to a remote test validator?
This one's actually trickier than it seems.
Program deployment transactions are sent to the TPU port, and not the RPC port, so there's two things you need to do.
Open up the TPU port, which may be ...
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429 Too Many Requests error
The public RPC nodes
https://api.testnet.solana.com
https://api.devnet.solana.com
https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com
are heavily rate limited and should not be used in production. There are many ...
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How to start a validator in solana?
If you are on Linux/mac machine -> use this command to see if your port is already in use by any other process:
lsof -nPi | grep <PORTNUM>
you can then kill the process that is using the ...
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Requesting airdrop of SOL on devnet or testnet throws error, rate limit is reached, even though I never reached the rate limit in the first place
Your Public Network IP address gets changed whenever you restart your WiFi router or switch to a different network. Since, most of the faucet/airdrop APIs are conditioned and developed in such a way ...
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When setting up on testnet, "Error: airdrop request failed. This can happen when the rate limit is reached."
This has nothing with mainnet-beta SOL being in your wallet (I would discourage you from keeping mainnet SOL in your testing wallet).
It means that you have been rate-limited and cannot request devnet ...
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Solana Testnet Wallet Private Keys Length
All Private Keys are 64 bytes, and the first 32 are the Public-Key.
You can use the KeyPair class as well.
https://solana-labs.github.io/solana-web3.js/classes/Keypair.html
Here is some more info ...
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Requesting airdrop of SOL on devnet or testnet throws error, rate limit is reached, even though I never reached the rate limit in the first place
Switching Wifi Routers fixed the issue for me, I have no idea why.
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How to deploy Solana private chain with at least 4 nodes for testing on single or multiple machines
It seems like you are trying to set up a local Solana cluster on your machine to send transactions and obtain the execution results. The instructions you followed are correct and should meet your ...
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Not getting staking rewards on Testnet
As far as I can tell, the validator your stake is delegated to has been inactive for 25 days: https://solscan.io/account/A93XLdBKfc4pwEMAvdFeyxnF6HauN5erNDFbUsemWiaB?cluster=testnet
Delegate to a ...
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Getting Testnet Tokens
solana airdrop 1 ADDRESS --url testnet
finally worked out after waiting a couple of days.
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Getting Testnet Tokens
there is a site to get faucets
solfaucet
You can simply go there and paste your wallet address and then you can have them.
but sol airdrop limit is
1 for testnet
2 for devnet
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Return airdropped lamports on devnet and testnet?
If you want to return your used lamports you can send them back to the faucet. This is 9B5XszUGdMaxCZ7uSQhPzdks5ZQSmWxrmzCSvtJ6Ns6g on devnet.
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How do we get test stablecoins on Solana like USDC or USDT?
The instructions on how to get USDC are here:
https://developers.circle.com/stablecoins/docs/quickstart-transfer-10-usdc-on-solana
I tried the faucet before following those instructions and I never ...
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