Surfpool

🎉 Big day for Surfpool! Surfpool just made its way into the official Solana developer stack — right in the installation docs. We always built Surfpool to feel like the “dev mode” Solana deserved… and seeing it land in the canonical path for builders is surreal. Huge thanks to everyone who has tested, contributed, and pushed us forward - just way too many names 😂 Follow @surfpool_sol to stay up to date with our progress! 👉 solana.com/docs/intro/ins…

@NiravJ3 Ideally, you do most of your development locally using @surfpool_sol where all of these issues evaporate.

one of the big issues I ran into with my e2e sims at first was how long running they were. luckily with @surfpool_sol i can use cheat codes like time travel to scale them easier. its been a really amazing local development tool for me.

Workshop @solanaturbine was really good it was a deep dive into Surfpool and testing in Surfpool Yaaa , sometimes I felt a little lost, but it was very interesting and gave a deep understanding of the runbook / testing @surfpool_sol

Interested what's new with Surfpool? They recently released 1.0 I'm especially excited by the account streaming feature :) @ludo_txtx is shipping 👇

full e2e with 32 passing tests for v3.4.0 using @surfpool_sol. sim it 🫰🫠 this is designed to test the entire token lifecycle, vault routing, etc. time travel is such a cool cheatcode

I'm excited to announce @beeman/testcontainers: Docker-based test containers for Solana development 🥳 Spin up solana-test-validator or @surfpool_sol in your tests with a single line of code. I'm thinking about adding on for Kora, what more should I add?

Surfpool launch week - day 2: Infrastructure as Code. Bash scripts. Hardcoded keypaths. Private keys in plaintext. Web3 DevSecOps are fundamentally hard, and broken. Runbooks are the perfect solution. surfpool.run/blog/infrastru…

undeniably one of the best upgrades to my local solana dev workflow recently

Run your bot like its on mainnet but with fake #Solana Swaps using @JupiterExchange API, @PythNetwork price feeds all locally using @surfpool_sol using scenario builder. Great way to test your trading strategies. youtube.com/watch?v=67eDzS…

@Subhdotsol Great job @Subhdotsol, thanks for that patch 💪

PR #457 just got merged into @surfpool_sol Worked on fixing a critical edge case where Surfpool would stop producing blocks when a Solana program close error occurred, caused by disconnected channels in the RPC handler now the status channel always sends a response first, preventing the simnet from stalling . What I learned: • Deep dive into RpcSVM & process_transaction flow • Handling async channels and ensuring reliable status propagation • Debugging core simulator logic in Rust Recovery from “program close” errors so Surfpool keeps simulating blocks smoothly ... github.com/txtx/surfpool/… @solanaturbine @solana @SuperteamIN @superteam @jacobvcreech @micaiah_txtx

A single open source contribution can teach a lot ... i went through @surfpool_sol got to know bout crossbeam realized the knowledge gap and then studied about the async backends made few projects got resources from @solanaturbine dc and now feeling confident ... built a CLOB

@Subhdotsol @solanaturbine @solana @SuperteamIN thanks so much, we’ll review asap!

First day of 2026 , what better way to start than an OSS contribution? Fixed an unclaimed issue in @surfpool_sol and learned crossbeam channels along the way. github.com/txtx/surfpool/… @solanaturbine @solana @SuperteamIN

GM @solana Devs! ✅Today I will finish episode 4. Focus on Solana transactions. ❌Many use the default 200k CU limit! ✅Better determine the compute units your Tx consumes 👉Minimum units === increasing the chance of your Tx being included Course here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@digbenjamins @solana love it! let us know if there’s anything we can do to support. if you hit limitations / bugs, experience friction / suboptimal devex or have feature requests, we’d like to help.

One of my @solana 2026 goals is to create a full beginner to advanced series. I already started. First 3 videos available. @digitalbenjamins/courses" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@digitalbenjam… We are going to cover all topics step by step following the #Solana Cookbook series and documentation. Using the latest like @surfpool_sol @anza_xyz Solana Kit

on the surfpool front, I would not classify this as a memory leak - we usually talk about memory leak when that's accidental - in our case, that was by design: a surfnet is keeping all its data (accounts, transactions, etc) in memory and never touching the disk. Durable surfnets are coming soon, give us 1-2 weeks!

@jacobvcreech @surfpool_sol i don't care about txn history, just that accounts aren't lost

why is it that solana local validator or @surfpool_sol both leak memory? like why can't i have a long running instance of one as a developer environment? what's the technical hurdle here? someone please educate me

@surfpool_sol in docker is game changing for tests

@ChiiYuen @NFTtaylor Not available currently, but seems reasonable and straightforward! @NFTtaylor mind opening an issue?

@NFTtaylor @surfpool_sol Devs are more active in Discord by the way discord.com/invite/rqXmWsn…

@surfpool_sol Is there a way to turn signature verification off for sending a transaction? Would like the state change to persist in the environment, so cannot use the simulate method.

@SEJeff @shafu0x Don't do this to me.

@shafu0x Why don’t you take the engine out of a Honda civic and put it in a Porsche 911?

why don't we have the EVM on Solana