# RFP

**URL:** https://forum.solana.com/c/rfp/10.md

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## [About the RFP category](https://forum.solana.com/t/about-the-rfp-category/348)

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**Author:** [@jacobcreech](https://forum.solana.com/u/jacobcreech)\
**Replies:** 0

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RFP, or Request for Proposal, outlines a project that the author is interested in funding. This category is for discussing RFPs created by Solana Foundation.

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## [Test Validator Plugin Framework](https://forum.solana.com/t/test-validator-plugin-framework/634)

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**Author:** [@jacobcreech](https://forum.solana.com/u/jacobcreech)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [July 31, 2026, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/test-validator-plugin-framework/634 "2026-07-31T08:52:32Z")

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Context When developers are building locally using local-test-validator, they often want to build on top of protocols already live on mainnet-beta. They can load each individual program and required account with CLI flag…

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## [I lost a significant ammout of solona by mistake to offcurve account](https://forum.solana.com/t/i-lost-a-significant-ammout-of-solona-by-mistake-to-offcurve-account/4944)

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**Author:** [@Youssefo](https://forum.solana.com/u/Youssefo)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/i-lost-a-significant-ammout-of-solona-by-mistake-to-offcurve-account/4944 "2026-07-04T17:15:25Z")

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I accidentally sent 3.178179538 SOL to the address HK24enuksj4kpH5wzdTTVfonpYjFjKcaSofZbzNtLH9 instead of my intended address (I omitted the last character). Solscan shows: Owner: System Program isOnCurve: false Balanc…

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## [Helius-stream: a small Rust crate I extracted from a mainnet MEV experiment, sharing for feedback](https://forum.solana.com/t/helius-stream-a-small-rust-crate-i-extracted-from-a-mainnet-mev-experiment-sharing-for-feedback/4810)

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**Author:** [@ginugokz](https://forum.solana.com/u/ginugokz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 22, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/helius-stream-a-small-rust-crate-i-extracted-from-a-mainnet-mev-experiment-sharing-for-feedback/4810 "2026-05-22T08:56:00Z")

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Hi all, :face\_with\_monocle: Sharing a Rust crate I extracted from a recent Solana MEV experiment, in case anyone here is building Rust-based bots, indexers, or monitoring tools and wants something lighter than pulling t…

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## [Solana Historical State Verification Tool](https://forum.solana.com/t/solana-historical-state-verification-tool/2249)

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**Author:** [@laura](https://forum.solana.com/u/laura)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 16, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/solana-historical-state-verification-tool/2249 "2025-01-16T12:10:04Z")

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Solana Historical State Verification Tool Context The Solana ecosystem currently lacks a comprehensive tool for verifying historical state transitions. As we’ve evolved from the Anza Google Bucket instance to more diver…

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## [Indexer tooling](https://forum.solana.com/t/indexer-tooling/2059)

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**Author:** [@pkxro](https://forum.solana.com/u/pkxro)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [November 4, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/indexer-tooling/2059 "2024-11-04T20:52:48Z")

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Context Geyser, while a great tool, does not provide an ergonomic end-to-end solution for developers to get a full picture of the data created from their programs or desired accounts. While useful for certain use cases, …

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## [Discriminator Database](https://forum.solana.com/t/discriminator-database/2060)

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**Author:** [@pkxro](https://forum.solana.com/u/pkxro)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/discriminator-database/2060 "2024-09-24T11:16:10Z")

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Context Teams in the Solana ecosystem regularly face challenges interacting with unknown deployed contracts and parsing unknown instructions. A community discriminator dataset would lead to a public good grouping of IDL …

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## [Rustls support for raw public keys](https://forum.solana.com/t/rustls-support-for-raw-public-keys/939)

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**Author:** [@ripatel-jump](https://forum.solana.com/u/ripatel-jump)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/rustls-support-for-raw-public-keys/939 "2024-08-29T14:30:48Z")

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Proposal Sponsor the authors of rustls to add support for the RFC 7250 standard. Related GitHub issue: Support RawPublicKey (non-X509) certificates, e.g. for P2P · Issue #423 · rustls/rustls · GitHub The maintainers …

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## [Generalized State Compression](https://forum.solana.com/t/generalized-state-compression/667)

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**Author:** [@jnwng](https://forum.solana.com/u/jnwng)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 2, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/generalized-state-compression/667 "2024-08-02T10:58:39Z")

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Context State Compression is a technical primitive for verifying data secured in the Solana ledger, allowing that data to be used in smart contracts and drastically reducing the cost of state on the Solana network. Stat…

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## [Post-Deployment Monitoring Tooling](https://forum.solana.com/t/post-deployment-monitoring-tooling/1031)

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**Author:** [@pkxro](https://forum.solana.com/u/pkxro)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 31, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/post-deployment-monitoring-tooling/1031 "2024-07-31T10:41:41Z")

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Context There exists a lack of post-deployment monitoring tooling that allow for program developers to extract realtime and actionable insights. Developers should look to use continuous monitoring or observability tools …

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## [Pre-Deployment Program Analysis](https://forum.solana.com/t/pre-deployment-program-analysis/1030)

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**Author:** [@pkxro](https://forum.solana.com/u/pkxro)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 29, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/pre-deployment-program-analysis/1030 "2024-02-29T22:01:35Z")

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Context There exists a lack of Open Source security tooling that allow for Solana developers to alleviate their programs from a wide range of vulnerabilities. Open Source Formal Verification and Symbolic Analysis tooling…

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## [Program Verification Tooling](https://forum.solana.com/t/program-verification-tooling/1032)

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**Author:** [@pkxro](https://forum.solana.com/u/pkxro)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 29, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/program-verification-tooling/1032 "2024-02-29T14:10:26Z")

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Context Solana users and developers should have better insights into the security posture of programs they’re using or invoking. There should exist verification tooling, program scoring and APIs that let wallets, explore…

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## [Alternative Archival Storage Technologies](https://forum.solana.com/t/alternative-archival-storage-technologies/389)

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**Author:** [@jnwng](https://forum.solana.com/u/jnwng)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [December 18, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/alternative-archival-storage-technologies/389 "2023-12-18T17:34:38Z")

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Context Archival storage for Solana has historically expensive and centralized from the technology perspective; at the moment, BigTable tends to be the only reasonable choice for RPCs to store historical information back…

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## [The Solana app for Ledger devices](https://forum.solana.com/t/the-solana-app-for-ledger-devices/367)

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**Author:** [@jnwng](https://forum.solana.com/u/jnwng)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 7, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/the-solana-app-for-ledger-devices/367 "2023-11-07T16:29:29Z")

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Context The Solana app on Ledger is a crucial part of the self-custody story within the Solana ecosystem. Until now, that app has been faithfully developed by contributors at Solana Labs but we are now looking for a new …

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## [Unified Security Token/RWA Program](https://forum.solana.com/t/unified-security-token-rwa-program/526)

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**Author:** [@Tamgros](https://forum.solana.com/u/Tamgros)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 6, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/unified-security-token-rwa-program/526 "2023-10-06T13:44:13Z")

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Context As discussed in the sRFC section of the forum sRFC 00020: RWA/Security Token Standard, this RFP is for a RWA program that can generalize to many RWA representations. RWA RFP application link Logistics Applicati…
