Available Solana Clusters
Solana maintains several different clusters with different purposes.
Before you begin make sure you have first installed the Solana command line tools
Explorers:
Devnet
- Devnet serves as a playground for anyone who wants to take Solana for a test drive, as a user, token holder, app developer, or validator.
- Application developers should target Devnet.
- Potential validators should first target Devnet.
- Key differences between Devnet and Mainnet Beta:
- Devnet tokens are not real
- Devnet includes a token faucet for airdrops for application testing
- Devnet may be subject to ledger resets
- Devnet typically runs the same software release branch version as Mainnet Beta, but may run a newer minor release version than Mainnet Beta.
- Gossip entrypoint for Devnet:
entrypoint.devnet.solana.com:8001
- Metrics environment variable for Devnet:
export SOLANA_METRICS_CONFIG="host=https://metrics.solana.com:8086,db=devnet,u=scratch_writer,p=topsecret"
- RPC URL for Devnet:
https://api.devnet.solana.com
Example solana
command-line configuration
solana config set --url https://api.devnet.solana.com
Example solana-validator
command-line
$ solana-validator \
--identity validator-keypair.json \
--vote-account vote-account-keypair.json \
--known-validator dv1ZAGvdsz5hHLwWXsVnM94hWf1pjbKVau1QVkaMJ92 \
--known-validator dv2eQHeP4RFrJZ6UeiZWoc3XTtmtZCUKxxCApCDcRNV \
--known-validator dv4ACNkpYPcE3aKmYDqZm9G5EB3J4MRoeE7WNDRBVJB \
--known-validator dv3qDFk1DTF36Z62bNvrCXe9sKATA6xvVy6A798xxAS \
--only-known-rpc \
--ledger ledger \
--rpc-port 8899 \
--dynamic-port-range 8000-8020 \
--entrypoint entrypoint.devnet.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint2.devnet.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint3.devnet.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint4.devnet.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint5.devnet.solana.com:8001 \
--expected-genesis-hash EtWTRABZaYq6iMfeYKouRu166VU2xqa1wcaWoxPkrZBG \
--wal-recovery-mode skip_any_corrupted_record \
--limit-ledger-size
The --known-validator
s
are operated by Solana Labs
Testnet
- Testnet is where the Solana core contributors stress test recent release features on a live cluster, particularly focused on network performance, stability and validator behavior.
- Testnet tokens are not real
- Testnet may be subject to ledger resets.
- Testnet includes a token faucet for airdrops for application testing
- Testnet typically runs a newer software release branch than both Devnet and Mainnet Beta
- Gossip entrypoint for Testnet:
entrypoint.testnet.solana.com:8001
- Metrics environment variable for Testnet:
export SOLANA_METRICS_CONFIG="host=https://metrics.solana.com:8086,db=tds,u=testnet_write,p=c4fa841aa918bf8274e3e2a44d77568d9861b3ea"
- RPC URL for Testnet:
https://api.testnet.solana.com
Example solana
command-line configuration
solana config set --url https://api.testnet.solana.com
Example solana-validator
command-line
$ solana-validator \
--identity validator-keypair.json \
--vote-account vote-account-keypair.json \
--known-validator 5D1fNXzvv5NjV1ysLjirC4WY92RNsVH18vjmcszZd8on \
--known-validator dDzy5SR3AXdYWVqbDEkVFdvSPCtS9ihF5kJkHCtXoFs \
--known-validator Ft5fbkqNa76vnsjYNwjDZUXoTWpP7VYm3mtsaQckQADN \
--known-validator eoKpUABi59aT4rR9HGS3LcMecfut9x7zJyodWWP43YQ \
--known-validator 9QxCLckBiJc783jnMvXZubK4wH86Eqqvashtrwvcsgkv \
--only-known-rpc \
--ledger ledger \
--rpc-port 8899 \
--dynamic-port-range 8000-8020 \
--entrypoint entrypoint.testnet.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint2.testnet.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint3.testnet.solana.com:8001 \
--expected-genesis-hash 4uhcVJyU9pJkvQyS88uRDiswHXSCkY3zQawwpjk2NsNY \
--wal-recovery-mode skip_any_corrupted_record \
--limit-ledger-size
The identities of the
--known-validator
s are:
5D1fNXzvv5NjV1ysLjirC4WY92RNsVH18vjmcszZd8on
- Solana LabsdDzy5SR3AXdYWVqbDEkVFdvSPCtS9ihF5kJkHCtXoFs
- MonkeDAOFt5fbkqNa76vnsjYNwjDZUXoTWpP7VYm3mtsaQckQADN
- Certus OneeoKpUABi59aT4rR9HGS3LcMecfut9x7zJyodWWP43YQ
- SerGo9QxCLckBiJc783jnMvXZubK4wH86Eqqvashtrwvcsgkv
- Algo|Stake
Mainnet Beta
A permissionless, persistent cluster for Solana users, builders, validators and token holders.
- Tokens that are issued on Mainnet Beta are real SOL
- Gossip entrypoint for Mainnet Beta:
entrypoint.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001
- Metrics environment variable for Mainnet Beta:
export SOLANA_METRICS_CONFIG="host=https://metrics.solana.com:8086,db=mainnet-beta,u=mainnet-beta_write,p=password"
- RPC URL for Mainnet Beta:
https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com
Example solana
command-line configuration
solana config set --url https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com
Example solana-validator
command-line
$ solana-validator \
--identity ~/validator-keypair.json \
--vote-account ~/vote-account-keypair.json \
--known-validator 7Np41oeYqPefeNQEHSv1UDhYrehxin3NStELsSKCT4K2 \
--known-validator GdnSyH3YtwcxFvQrVVJMm1JhTS4QVX7MFsX56uJLUfiZ \
--known-validator DE1bawNcRJB9rVm3buyMVfr8mBEoyyu73NBovf2oXJsJ \
--known-validator CakcnaRDHka2gXyfbEd2d3xsvkJkqsLw2akB3zsN1D2S \
--only-known-rpc \
--ledger ledger \
--rpc-port 8899 \
--private-rpc \
--dynamic-port-range 8000-8020 \
--entrypoint entrypoint.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint2.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint3.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint4.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \
--entrypoint entrypoint5.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \
--expected-genesis-hash 5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdpKuc147dw2N9d \
--wal-recovery-mode skip_any_corrupted_record \
--limit-ledger-size
info
The above four --known-validator
s
are operated by Solana Labs.