Stacksmith
Stacksmith

About Stacksmith

Stacksmith is a news site about the Solana ecosystem, written for the people building on it.

Most Solana coverage is written for traders. It tells you what the price did, where the flows went, and which token had a good week. That is a real job and other sites do it well. This site does the other one. When something changes on Solana, Stacksmith tells you what it means for the thing you are shipping.

Who this is for

Stacksmith is for developers, founders, and operators building on Solana.

If you maintain a program, run a validator, integrate a wallet, or decide which RPC and tooling your team depends on, this is written for you. If you came for the SOL chart, this is the wrong site and we will not waste your time pretending otherwise.

What we cover

We cover what changes for builders.

  • Protocol and governance changes. SIMDs and SGPs, what they alter, and the slot or date they land on.
  • Developer tooling and APIs. Frameworks, indexers, RPC, SDKs, and the release notes that actually affect your dependencies.
  • DeFi and payments infrastructure. New primitives, lending and liquidity mechanics, stablecoin rails, and how they are built.
  • Incidents. Outages, exploits, and near-misses, reported with the numbers and the blast radius rather than a headline and a shrug.
  • Projects winding down. Launches get covered everywhere. Shutdowns get covered here, because knowing what died is part of knowing what to depend on.

We do not cover SOL price action, ETF flows, treasury companies, or memecoin volume.

Why it exists

Solana ships fast enough that keeping up is a real job, and most of what gets published about it stops one step short of being useful.

A governance proposal passes and the story is about who voted which way. A framework ships a rewrite and the story is that a rewrite shipped. The part where somebody tells you which line in your program breaks, and when, generally does not get written. Stacksmith exists to write that part.

The other reason is simpler. Crypto media is full of anonymous editorial teams and sites that will not say a project failed while its founders are still listed as partners. Every article here carries one name, and that name is attached to the conclusions.

Who writes it

Stacksmith is written and edited by Mike Hale, who has 25 years of software development and enterprise technology experience. He is the Solana Technical Writer at Quicknode and Editor of the Colosseum Codex newsletter. You can find him on X, GitHub, and LinkedIn.

How to follow

New articles publish most working days.

How we work

Our Editorial Standards page covers how articles get produced, how we source claims, how corrections work, and how the site is funded. The short version on that last point is that it isn't. Stacksmith takes no advertising and no sponsored posts, and nobody has ever paid for coverage here.