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WebSocket Subscriptions

A persistent bidirectional connection to a Solana RPC node's WebSocket endpoint (typically on port 8900) that allows clients to receive real-time push notifications when on-chain state changes, rather than polling via HTTP. The subscription model supports account changes, program account changes, slot updates, root changes, signature confirmations, and log emission, each returning a subscription ID used to later unsubscribe.

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A persistent bidirectional connection to a Solana RPC node's WebSocket endpoint (typically on port 8900) that allows clients to receive real-time push notifications when on-chain state changes, rather than polling via HTTP. The subscription model supports account changes, program account changes, slot updates, root changes, signature confirmations, and log emission, each returning a subscription ID used to later unsubscribe.

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WebSocket Subscriptions (websocket)
Category: Infrastructure
Definition: A persistent bidirectional connection to a Solana RPC node's WebSocket endpoint (typically on port 8900) that allows clients to receive real-time push notifications when on-chain state changes, rather than polling via HTTP. The subscription model supports account changes, program account changes, slot updates, root changes, signature confirmations, and log emission, each returning a subscription ID used to later unsubscribe.
Related: RPC (Remote Procedure Call), accountSubscribe, logsSubscribe
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RPC (Remote Procedure Call)

The JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol interface through which clients communicate with Solana nodes to query chain state, submit transactions, and subscribe to events. Solana exposes a rich set of HTTP and WebSocket endpoints (e.g., getAccountInfo, sendTransaction) that abstract direct peer-to-peer network participation, making RPC the primary integration point for wallets, dApps, and indexers.

RPC NodeRPC Methods
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accountSubscribe

A WebSocket subscription method that pushes a notification to the client every time the data or lamport balance of a specified account changes, delivering the updated AccountInfo payload at the configured commitment level. It is commonly used by UIs to reactively update token balances, NFT ownership, or program state without polling, and each subscription is referenced by a numeric subscription ID returned upon successful registration.

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logsSubscribe

A WebSocket subscription method that streams transaction log messages in real time as transactions are processed by the cluster, filterable by 'all' (every transaction), 'allWithVotes' (including vote transactions), or a specific program public key. It is the lowest-latency way for bots and monitoring systems to react to on-chain events emitted via Solana's msg! macro or Anchor's emit! macro without running a full validator or Geyser plugin.

Program Log (msg! / sol_log)
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RPC (Remote Procedure Call)

The JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol interface through which clients communicate with Solana nodes to query chain state, submit transactions, and subscribe to events. Solana exposes a rich set of HTTP and WebSocket endpoints (e.g., getAccountInfo, sendTransaction) that abstract direct peer-to-peer network participation, making RPC the primary integration point for wallets, dApps, and indexers.

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Infrastructure

accountSubscribe

A WebSocket subscription method that pushes a notification to the client every time the data or lamport balance of a specified account changes, delivering the updated AccountInfo payload at the configured commitment level. It is commonly used by UIs to reactively update token balances, NFT ownership, or program state without polling, and each subscription is referenced by a numeric subscription ID returned upon successful registration.

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Infrastructure

logsSubscribe

A WebSocket subscription method that streams transaction log messages in real time as transactions are processed by the cluster, filterable by 'all' (every transaction), 'allWithVotes' (including vote transactions), or a specific program public key. It is the lowest-latency way for bots and monitoring systems to react to on-chain events emitted via Solana's msg! macro or Anchor's emit! macro without running a full validator or Geyser plugin.

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Infrastructure

Yellowstone gRPC

An open-source Geyser plugin implementation by Triton One that re-exposes the validator's internal event stream over a gRPC/Protobuf interface, enabling clients to subscribe to filtered streams of account updates, transactions, and slot notifications with sub-millisecond latency from the validator. It has become the de facto streaming standard for Solana MEV bots, high-frequency trading systems, and indexers that require lower latency and richer filtering than WebSocket subscriptions provide.

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Wallet Standard

A chain-agnostic TypeScript interface specification (maintained at github.com/wallet-standard/wallet-standard) that defines how browser-based wallets register themselves, expose supported features, and implement signing operations via a globally discoverable window object. On Solana, wallets implement the Solana-specific feature set (solana:signTransaction, solana:signMessage, etc.), allowing any compliant dApp using Wallet Adapter to enumerate and use installed wallets without hard-coded wallet detection logic.

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RPC (Remote Procedure Call)

The JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol interface through which clients communicate with Solana nodes to query chain state, submit transactions, and subscribe to events. Solana exposes a rich set of HTTP and WebSocket endpoints (e.g., getAccountInfo, sendTransaction) that abstract direct peer-to-peer network participation, making RPC the primary integration point for wallets, dApps, and indexers.

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Infrastructureaccount-subscribe

accountSubscribe

A WebSocket subscription method that pushes a notification to the client every time the data or lamport balance of a specified account changes, delivering the updated AccountInfo payload at the configured commitment level. It is commonly used by UIs to reactively update token balances, NFT ownership, or program state without polling, and each subscription is referenced by a numeric subscription ID returned upon successful registration.

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Infrastructurelogs-subscribe

logsSubscribe

A WebSocket subscription method that streams transaction log messages in real time as transactions are processed by the cluster, filterable by 'all' (every transaction), 'allWithVotes' (including vote transactions), or a specific program public key. It is the lowest-latency way for bots and monitoring systems to react to on-chain events emitted via Solana's msg! macro or Anchor's emit! macro without running a full validator or Geyser plugin.

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Infrastructure

RPC (Remote Procedure Call)

The JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol interface through which clients communicate with Solana nodes to query chain state, submit transactions, and subscribe to events. Solana exposes a rich set of HTTP and WebSocket endpoints (e.g., getAccountInfo, sendTransaction) that abstract direct peer-to-peer network participation, making RPC the primary integration point for wallets, dApps, and indexers.

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Infrastructure

RPC Node

A Solana full node that stores ledger state and serves JSON-RPC and WebSocket requests from clients without participating in consensus or voting. RPC nodes must replay every transaction to maintain an accurate account state database, and high-throughput deployments typically run dedicated RPC nodes with large SSDs, high RAM (256 GB+), and high-bandwidth network connections to handle concurrent client load without impacting validator performance.

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RPC Methods

The enumerated JSON-RPC endpoints exposed by Solana nodes, covering account queries (getAccountInfo, getMultipleAccounts, getProgramAccounts), block and transaction retrieval (getBlock, getTransaction), cluster metadata (getEpochInfo, getSlot, getVersion), and transaction submission (sendTransaction, simulateTransaction). Methods accept a Commitment parameter (processed, confirmed, finalized) to control the recency-vs-safety tradeoff of returned data.

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getAccountInfo

An RPC method that returns the complete on-chain state of a single account identified by its base-58 public key, including its lamport balance, owner program, executable flag, rent epoch, and raw data payload encoded as base64 or base58. It is the most fundamental read primitive in Solana development and is called at the specified commitment level, with the data field being null if the account does not exist.

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