SOLANA DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Solana Blockchain Development Company Building on the Account Model, Not Around It
A Solana blockchain development company builds programs and applications native to Solana's account model and Rust toolchain. Pixel Web Solutions delivers Solana programs, SPL tokens, NFT and compressed NFT collections, DeFi protocols, wallets, and consumer applications, with security review covering the account validation failures that EVM-trained reviewers routinely miss.
Rust and Anchor. Programs designed for parallel execution, compute budgets, and transaction size limits from the first line rather than refactored into them.
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- Written by engineers who work in Solana's account model, not Solidity habits ported across
- Security review covering signer, owner, and account substitution checks specifically
- Program upgrade authority transferred to your control, with no retained access
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Blockchain and Web3 projects delivered
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Value-holding programs shipped with independent audit
99.9%
Application uptime across managed deployments
4 weeks
Fastest Solana program from kickoff to mainnet
Most Solana exploits come from EVM habits applied to a different machine.
Solana does not work like Ethereum. Programs are stateless and accounts hold data, which means a program must validate every account passed to it rather than trusting storage it owns. Teams arriving from Solidity carry assumptions that do not hold, and the resulting failures are consistent, well documented, and entirely preventable.
Accounts trusted without validation
A Solana program receives accounts as inputs and must check the signer, the owner, and the type of each one. Missing any of those lets an attacker substitute an account the program then treats as legitimate. This class of bug causes more Solana losses than any other.
Upgrade authority nobody surrendered
Solana programs are upgradeable by default, and whoever holds upgrade authority can replace the logic entirely. Leaving that with a single team key means users are trusting you rather than the code. We plan the authority path to a multi-signature or to revocation before launch.
Built without compute or size limits in mind
Compute budgets, transaction size, and the requirement to declare every account upfront shape what a program can do in one instruction. Designs that ignore this hit walls late, when refactoring is expensive.
Assuming transactions simply land
Under network load, transactions need priority fees and sensible retry logic to be included. Applications built assuming reliable inclusion behave badly exactly when usage peaks. Confirmation handling and fee strategy are part of the build.
Our Solana Development Services
Nine build tracks covering programs, tokens, applications, and the infrastructure a Solana product depends on.
A Solana blockchain development company provides program development in Rust and Anchor, SPL token and token extension implementation, NFT and compressed NFT development, DeFi protocol development, wallet integration, payments integration, consumer application development, program security review, and RPC infrastructure, indexing, and deployment support.
Solana Program Development
Programs written in Rust, typically with Anchor, designed around the account model, program derived addresses, cross-program invocation, compute budgets, and parallel execution constraints from the outset.
SPL Token and Token Extension Development
Fungible tokens on the standard token program, plus extension-based tokens where you need features such as transfer controls, metadata held on the mint, or confidential balances.
NFT and Compressed NFT Development
Standard NFT collections plus compressed NFTs using state compression, which reduces the cost of large collections by orders of magnitude and is one of the strongest technical reasons to choose Solana for consumer scale.
Solana DeFi Protocol Development
AMMs, lending markets, staking and liquid staking, and vaults built for Solana's execution model, with oracle integration and economic review alongside code review.
Wallet Integration and Consumer Onboarding
Wallet adapter integration across major Solana wallets, embedded wallets for users without one, session handling, and transaction preview and confirmation flows.
Solana Payments Integration
Payment request flows, merchant integration, settlement handling, and confirmation logic suited to point-of-sale and checkout use cases.
Consumer Applications and Games on Solana
Applications where low fees and high throughput carry the product: games, social, loyalty, and high-frequency consumer interactions, with gasless or sponsored transaction patterns.
Program Security Review and Audit Preparation
Review focused on Solana's specific failure modes: signer and owner validation, account type confusion, program derived address seed handling, cross-program invocation targets, arithmetic, rent and account closure, plus coordination of independent audit.
RPC Infrastructure, Indexing, Deployment and Support
RPC provider strategy with failover, priority fee handling, transaction retry logic, indexing for account and transaction data, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance.
Coming from an EVM background?
The account model is the part that catches teams out, and most of the security findings we see trace back to it. Send us your program design or existing code under NDA and we will tell you where Solidity assumptions have carried across.
Three ways to work with our Solana development team
Pick the engagement that matches what already exists.
Program or Token Build
Duration
4 to 10 weeks
A defined program, token, or collection built, tested, reviewed, audited, and deployed.
Best for:
Teams with a specified requirement on established patterns.
Includes:
Program development, test coverage, security review, audit coordination, deployment, documentation.
Full Solana Product Build
Duration
10 to 20 weeks
Programs plus the application around them: frontend, wallet integration, indexing, RPC infrastructure, and onboarding.
Best for:
Teams building a complete product rather than a contract.
Includes:
Programs, application, indexing, infrastructure, audit coordination, deployment, monitoring.
Program Review and Remediation
Duration
2 to 6 weeks
Assessment of existing programs, whether written in house or inherited, with findings, prioritised remediation, and a path to audit.
Best for:
Teams with code they are not confident in, or a failed audit to resolve.
Includes:
Code review, findings report, remediation, retesting, audit preparation.
A proven Solana development process, from account design to mainnet
Five stages. Account structure is designed first, because it constrains everything built afterwards.
Requirements and Account Architecture
We define what the program does, then design the account structure, program derived address scheme, and ownership and authority model. output: a program specification, an account layout, and an authority plan.
Constraints and Audit Scheduling
Compute budget, transaction size, account count per instruction, and rent implications assessed against the design, with audit capacity booked for the projected date. output: a constraints assessment, a fixed-price scope, and a confirmed audit slot.
Development and Testing
Programs written in Rust with Anchor where appropriate, with unit and integration tests, local validator testing, and adversarial tests targeting account substitution and authority bypass. output: programs with coverage and a compute profile.
Security Review, Audit and Devnet
Internal review against Solana's specific failure modes, independent audit, remediation, and devnet deployment with realistic transaction patterns and load. output: an audit report, a remediation log, and a release candidate.
Mainnet Deployment and Authority Handover
Mainnet deployment, program verification, upgrade authority transferred to your multi-signature or revoked as agreed, monitoring configured, and handover of source and deployment tooling. output: a live program you control.
Get your account model reviewed before you write the program
A 45-minute technical review of your Solana design or existing code. We work through account validation, authority structure, compute and size constraints, and transaction handling, then tell you what it takes to ship safely. No obligation, no sales script.
- Whether every account your program touches is properly validated
- Who will hold upgrade authority, and what users are trusting as a result
- Whether the design fits inside compute and transaction limits
Key Benefits of Choosing Our Solana Development Services
What teams get from engineers working in Solana's model rather than translating from another one.
Account model native
Signer, owner, and type validation on every account, program derived address schemes designed rather than improvised, and cross-program invocation targets constrained. This is where Solana exploits come from.
Security review targeting Solana's failure modes
Review scoped to account substitution, authority bypass, seed collisions, arbitrary invocation, and account closure and revival, which general EVM-oriented review does not cover.
Built within the real constraints
Compute budget, transaction size, and account declaration limits factored into the design rather than discovered when a feature will not fit in one instruction.
Compressed NFTs where they fit
State compression used where collection scale makes standard minting uneconomic, which is frequently the reason a consumer product is viable on Solana at all.
Transactions that land under load
Priority fee strategy, retry logic, and confirmation handling designed in, so the application behaves predictably when the network is busy.
You control the program
Upgrade authority transferred to your multi-signature or revoked as agreed, with full source and deployment tooling handed over. We retain no authority over anything we deploy.
Who we build on Solana for
The same engineering discipline across nine very different products.
| Industry | What we build |
|---|---|
| DeFi protocols | AMMs, lending, staking, and vaults built for Solana's execution model |
| NFT platforms and creators | collections at consumer scale using compression |
| Consumer applications | products where low fees make high-frequency interaction viable |
| Gaming studios | in-game assets and economies with negligible transaction cost |
| Payments businesses | fast settlement and point-of-sale flows |
| Wallets and infrastructure | tooling and integrations across the ecosystem |
| Token projects | SPL tokens with extension-based controls where required |
| Loyalty and brand programmes | high-volume, low-value assets at consumer scale |
| Teams migrating from EVM | porting or rebuilding with the account model done properly |
High-value Solana use cases we deliver
Compressed NFT collection at consumer scale
Large collections where standard minting cost would make the product unviable. Why Solana: state compression reduces per-asset cost by orders of magnitude.
High-frequency consumer application
Products where users transact constantly and per-transaction cost decides viability. Why Solana: fees low enough that frequent interaction is economically sensible.
DeFi protocol
AMMs, lending, or vaults built natively rather than ported from an EVM design. Why Solana: throughput and cost, provided the account model is respected.
Game economy
In-game assets and currencies with transactions frequent enough to rule out most chains. Why Solana: per-action cost that does not interrupt play.
Payments and point of sale
Merchant checkout and settlement with fast confirmation. Why Solana: settlement speed and cost suited to retail transaction sizes.
Program review and remediation
Existing Solana programs assessed, fixed, and prepared for audit. Why it matters: most findings are account validation issues, and they are cheap to fix before launch and expensive afterwards.
Solana tooling, standards and infrastructure we build on
We build with the toolchain the ecosystem's auditors and integrators already use.
Languages and frameworks:
Program concepts:
Token standards:
Wallets:
Infrastructure:
Assurance:
Tools and Technologies We Use
Programs
Client libraries
Frontend
Mobile
Testing
Indexing and data
Infrastructure
Security
Monitoring
Solana development driving real product outcomes
Fastest Solana program from kickoff to mainnet
Value-holding programs deployed with independent audit
Application uptime across managed deployments
Figures reflect Pixel Web Solutions delivery data. Individual results depend on program complexity, audit scope, and infrastructure requirements.
Solana vs EVM: what actually changes for your team
Solana differs from Ethereum in more than speed and cost. Programs are stateless and data lives in separate accounts, code is written in Rust rather than Solidity, transactions must declare every account they touch so execution can run in parallel, and programs are upgradeable by default. A team experienced in EVM development is not automatically a Solana team.
| Dimension | EVM chains | Solana |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Solidity or Vyper | Rust, usually with Anchor |
| State model | Contracts hold their own storage | Programs are stateless, accounts hold data |
| Account handling | Contract trusts its own storage | Program must validate every account passed in |
| Execution | Sequential | Parallel, so accounts are declared upfront |
| Upgradeability | Requires an explicit proxy pattern | Upgradeable by default, authority must be managed |
| Fees | Gas, variable and often high | Very low, with priority fees under load |
| Auditor pool | Large | Smaller and more specialised, book earlier |
| Migration effort | Not applicable | A rewrite, not a port |
Solana program security: the checks that matter most
These failure modes are specific to the account model and account for a large share of Solana exploits. General smart contract review, particularly by EVM-oriented reviewers, does not reliably cover them.
| Check | What goes wrong without it | What the program must do |
|---|---|---|
| Signer validation | Anyone can invoke a privileged instruction | Verify the expected authority actually signed |
| Account owner validation | An attacker passes a fake account the program trusts | Confirm each account is owned by the expected program |
| Account type validation | One account type is passed where another is expected | Discriminate account types explicitly, never infer |
| Program derived address seeds | Predictable or colliding seeds allow substitution | Derive and verify addresses with canonical seeds and bump |
| Cross-program invocation target | The program calls an attacker-supplied program | Constrain invocation targets to known program identifiers |
| Arithmetic handling | Overflow or truncation corrupts balances | Use checked arithmetic throughout |
| Rent and account closure | Closed accounts are revived and reused | Zero data, transfer lamports, and mark accounts correctly |
| Duplicate account arguments | The same account is passed twice to bypass a check | Reject duplicates where the logic assumes distinct accounts |
| Upgrade authority | The team can replace the program at any time | Move authority to multi-signature or revoke, and publish which |
We run these explicitly during internal review and confirm the auditor's scope covers them, because a general review that misses one of these has missed the most likely exploit.
Most Solana findings come from this list. Our free review works through yours in 45 minutes.
Book your free Solana consultation
Tell us what you are building on Solana, or send us programs that already exist. In 30 minutes, an engineer will review your account architecture, authority model, and constraints, and outline a realistic build.
- Whether your account validation and authority model hold up
- An honest view of cost, timeline, audit availability, and infrastructure
- Clear next steps, whether or not you work with us
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Solana development, tooling, security, cost, and migration.
Reviewed by :
Ramkumar
Solana Engineer & Trading Systems Lead at Pixel Web Solutions, with 10 Yrs Experience
Last updated: August 2026
Freshness note: Solana tooling, token standards, and network characteristics change frequently. Details on this page reflect our understanding at the time of writing.
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