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Short, plain and in order: a first-week plan, a map of what each kind of app does, and how to use a project community safely.
Step-by-step guide · Start here
You don't need to learn everything at once. Spend ten to twenty minutes a day for a week, with an amount of money you would be fine losing, and you will know how to use Solana safely. Here is the plan, one day at a time.
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Solana has thousands of apps, but they fall into about a dozen kinds. Once you know what each kind does, the ecosystem stops looking like a wall of logos. Here is the map, in plain words, with examples and where to start.
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Every project community on StonkBuilder follows the same shape, so once you know how to read one, you can read them all. Here is what each part is for, and a step-by-step way to use a hub before you touch a new project.
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24 articles so far. Each one lists its sources and the date its facts were checked.
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Solana has thousands of apps, but they fall into about a dozen kinds. Once you know what each kind does, the ecosystem stops looking like a wall of logos. Here is the map, in plain words, with examples and where to start.
Step-by-step guide · Start here
Every project community on StonkBuilder follows the same shape, so once you know how to read one, you can read them all. Here is what each part is for, and a step-by-step way to use a hub before you touch a new project.
Step-by-step guide · Start here
You don't need to learn everything at once. Spend ten to twenty minutes a day for a week, with an amount of money you would be fine losing, and you will know how to use Solana safely. Here is the plan, one day at a time.
Article · How it works
ORE is a token on Solana with a fixed maximum supply and an unusual way of being handed out: a mining game where you put SOL on a grid and a program draws a winner every round. Here is how a round works, what it costs you, and where staking fits in.
Article · How it works
When you swap on Solana, nobody sits on the other side of your trade. You trade against a pool: a shared pot of two tokens that anyone can add to. Here is how a pool sets its price, who earns the fees, and what can go wrong.
Article · How it works
Tokenized stocks let you follow a company's share price from a Solana wallet, around the clock. But the token is not the share. Here is what xStocks, which follow public companies, and PreStocks, which follow private ones, actually give you.
Article · How it works
A swap on Solana can involve up to seven different costs. Most are tiny, a few are not, and one comes back to you. Here is each one in plain words, with real rates from Jupiter, Raydium, StonkFun and PreStocks, and how to spot them before you sign.
Article · How it works
Most new Solana tokens are born on a launchpad. Many start on a bonding curve, a price formula that rises with every buy, and graduate into a normal trading pool once enough money has come in. Here is how that works, and what to check before you join in.
Article · How it works
Many Solana projects spend part of their revenue buying their own token, and some destroy what they buy. Here is what buybacks, burns and holder rewards mean, how four well-known projects do it, and how to check it yourself.
Step-by-step guide · Step by step
Staking means putting your SOL behind a validator that helps run Solana, in return for rewards. You can stake straight from your wallet, or swap SOL for a liquid staking token such as JitoSOL or JupSOL. Here is how each one works, step by step.
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Jupiter is a Solana swap app that looks across many exchanges for the best price. This guide takes you through a first swap with a small amount, one step at a time, and shows what to check before you approve.
Article · Memecoins
Most pump.fun coins are priced in SOL. A few use another token, and $ARMORED uses ORE, the capped Solana token handed out by a mining game. Here is what a pair token is, how your swap gets there and what it changes for you.
Article · Memecoins
pump.fun is a popular Solana app for launching memecoins. Anyone can launch a coin in a minute, for free, and anyone can trade it from the first second. Here is how a coin goes from idea to pool, what you pay on each trade and what to watch out for.
Article · Memecoins
Armored Kitten is a meme coin on Solana about a tiny kitten in oversized armor and the giant knight who gives it a chance. Here is the story, what the token is, how its ORE rewards work and what to check before you touch it.
Article · Memecoins
A companion you can use today, plus ORE arriving in your wallet. $ARMORED connects access to Armored Kitten's Telegram bot with automatic, trading-funded holder rewards. Here is the pitch, what gives each token a role, and how the two flywheels connect.
Article · Memecoins
Every new pump.fun coin starts on a bonding curve, a formula that sets its price as people buy and sell. It explains why early buyers pay so little, why prices jump near the end and why most coins never leave the curve. Here it is with real numbers.
Step-by-step guide · Memecoins
Selling a memecoin is the same swap as buying it, in reverse. What surprises people is the cost: fees on both sides, price impact in small pools and scams aimed at people trying to cash out. Here is the sale, step by step, with real numbers.
Step-by-step guide · Memecoins
Most memecoin losses that are not just price start with something you could have checked: a copied coin, a hidden fee or a team that can still print coins. Here are eight checks, each shown on a real coin, $ARMORED, so you know what a pass looks like.
Step-by-step guide · Memecoins
Buying a memecoin takes five minutes once you know the steps. Doing it safely takes one more: making sure you have the real coin. This guide goes from an empty wallet to your first memecoin, with the checks that stop the most common losses.
Step-by-step guide · Memecoins
You can buy $ARMORED with USDC from the Armored Kitten page, on jup.ag or on pump.fun. This guide uses the page's swap, one step at a time, and shows what each fee is and how to check you hold the real coin.
Step-by-step guide · Memecoins
A meme coin lives or dies by its memes. Armored Kitten gives you the story, a wall of finished memes to save and a meme forge that makes new ones in your browser. Here is the lore, and how to make and share a meme in about a minute.
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StonkBuilder Community now has an independent research hub for Neuralink. It brings together 11 explainers, 3 step-by-step tutorials, 44 official YouTube video analyses, a 16-slide research deck, and a plain-language guide to the NEURALINK PreStocks token.
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StonkBuilder Community is a free library of resources and articles for people who are new to web3. We explain projects in simple terms and show, step by step, how to use them. Here is why we started, what you will find, and where to begin.
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StonkBuilder Community now has an independent guide to Meteora, a Solana app where people put tokens into shared pools and earn a share of every trade's fee. It has 11 articles and 9 step-by-step tutorials. Here is what is inside and where to start.
GUIDES BY PROJECT
Every project community has guides to its main features, one action per step. They are collected here, and new communities appear on their own.
An open data room for Jupiter: daily numbers, each linked to its source, and a plain-language tutorial for every product.
+ 23 more in the hub
Open the Jupiter hubThe verified contract address, how ORE mining and buybacks work, and every official ORE link.
New to Solana? Set up a wallet, buy SOL, make a first swap and meet the best-known projects.
Open the Solana guideHow Raydium's pools, fees and LaunchLab launches work, step by step, with the verified RAY address.
Open the Raydium hubHow StonkFun launches, reward coins and $STONK buybacks work, with the verified $STONK address.
Open the StonkFun hubAn independent guide to PreStocks, the Solana tokens that track pre-IPO companies: every official mint, the fees, IPO conversions and the risks.
An independent guide to Meteora's liquidity pools: how DLMM bins and fees work, launching a token, the MET token, and step-by-step LP tutorials.
+ 3 more in the hub
Open the Meteora guideTokenized stocks, explained and checked: what you own, the backing, the admin keys and the risks, in tutorials and articles.
+ 6 more in the hub
Open the xStocks guideAn independent research hub on Neuralink: how the N1 implant and R1 surgical robot work, PRIME, CONVOY and VOICE human trials, all 44 official videos, the presentation A Closer Look and NEURALINK PreStocks access.
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Wallets, recovery phrases and scams are explained on StonkBuilder Learn, our library of beginner guides. Our articles build on them instead of repeating them.
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