Markets & Trading

Solana's single global state, ~400ms block times, and sub-cent fees make it the home of onchain finance and DeFi: every program - DEXs, lending markets, oracles, perps - is composable within a single atomic transaction. This section is the workflow layer for building financial applications; it links down to Core Concepts and the cookbook for the underlying mechanics.

Market data becomes a quote and signed transaction that onchain programs execute atomically

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