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Most Solana tutorials still start the same way: install the CLI, make a keypair, run solana airdrop 2 . Run that against devnet today (CLI 4.2.2 here) and you get this: $ solana airdrop 2 8AKHUj5APsyeqDo2cFPmujtJSQyLRbXdhhYSpjhXm6A7 --url devnet Requesting airdrop of 2 SOL Error: airdrop request failed. This can happen when the rate limit is reached. The message blames a rate limit, so the natural move is to wait and try again later. For us it failed the same way…
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Upgrade this serverA token page can say anything. The mint account cannot lie. This post shows how to read a Solana token's real rules with one standard RPC call: no SDK, no wallet, no keys. We use it every Monday to re-check one token, and it recently corrected our own documentation. The one call: getAccountInfo with jsonParsed Every SPL token has a mint account. Ask any Solana RPC node for it with encoding: "jsonParsed" and the node decodes it for you: // read-mint.mjs · Node 18+ (built-in fetch) · read-only const MINT = process . argv [ 2 ] ; const RPC = process . argv [ 3 ] ||…
11 hours ago · dev.to
Most Solana tutorials still start the same way: install the CLI, make a keypair, run solana airdrop 2 . Run that against devnet today (CLI 4.2.2 here) and you get this: $ solana airdrop 2 8AKHUj5APsyeqDo2cFPmujtJSQyLRbXdhhYSpjhXm6A7 --url devnet Requesting airdrop of 2 SOL Error: airdrop request failed. This can happen when the rate limit is reached. The message blames a rate limit, so the natural move is to wait and try again later. For us it failed the same way a day later. We ran into this while funding test wallets for our own tools, and the cause turned out to be something waiting can't…
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