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StonkBuilder Community is a free library of resources and articles that helps new people find their way into web3: projects explained in simple terms, with step-by-step guides to using them.
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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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12 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
+ 22 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 guideNEW TO CRYPTO?
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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