Understand Solana DeFi before you use it.
HittinCorners is a plain-English resource for Solana DeFi: how swaps, lending, liquid staking, and yield farming actually work, what the real risks are, and which protocols are worth knowing about. No hype, no fabricated numbers — just what you need before you connect a wallet.
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Decentralized Exchanges
Swap tokens directly from your wallet without a centralized order book or custodian.
Lending & Borrowing
Supply assets to earn yield, or borrow against collateral, through on-chain money markets.
Liquid Staking
Stake SOL and receive a liquid token representing your stake, usable elsewhere in DeFi.
Yield Farming
Provide liquidity or stake LP positions to earn trading fees and incentive rewards.
Wallets
Self-custody software and hardware wallets for holding and interacting with Solana assets.
OTC Marketplaces
Over-the-counter venues for negotiating larger trades directly between counterparties, outside a public order book.
Index Platforms
Products that bundle multiple assets into a single token or position, similar to a traditional index fund.
Guides
- Cross-Chain Bridge Security, Explained
Why bridges are historically the most-hacked category of crypto infrastructure, and how to reduce your risk when moving assets across chains.
- Getting Started with Solana DeFi
The essentials before you connect a wallet to your first Solana DeFi protocol: setup, terminology, and a sane first move.
- How Airdrop Farming Actually Works (and Its Real Risks)
An honest look at how airdrop farming works on protocols like Bulk Exchange, and why it carries real risk of wasted effort.
- How to Lend USDC on Solana
A practical guide to supplying USDC to a Solana lending market to earn yield, without borrowing.
- How to Stake SOL via Jito
A practical walkthrough of liquid staking SOL through Jito to receive jitoSOL.
- How to Swap Tokens on Solana
How token swaps and DEX aggregators work on Solana, and what to check before confirming any trade.
- How to Use Jupiter
A practical walkthrough of swapping, limit orders, and DCA on Jupiter, Solana's main swap aggregator.
- Impermanent Loss on Solana DEXs, Explained
What impermanent loss actually is, why it happens to liquidity providers, and how to think about it against fee income.
- LST Depeg Risk on Solana, Explained
Why liquid staking tokens can trade below their fair value, when it tends to happen, and how to reduce your exposure.
- Solana DeFi: An Overview of the Ecosystem
How Solana's DeFi ecosystem fits together: DEXs, lending, liquid staking, yield farming, and the wallets underneath all of it.
- Solana DEX Security Risks
The real security risks specific to trading on Solana DEXs: smart contracts, MEV, sandwich attacks, and fake tokens.
- Solana Lending Risk and Liquidation, Explained
How collateral, loan-to-value, and liquidation actually work in Solana lending markets — and how people actually lose money borrowing.
- Staking-Adjacent Flows on Solana Perpetuals Platforms
How staking, vault, or reward-token mechanisms on perpetuals platforms like Bulk Exchange generally work, and how to evaluate them cautiously.
- The Complete Guide to Solana DeFi Risk
Every major risk category in Solana DeFi in one place: smart contracts, custody, oracle failure, rug pulls, bridges, and regulation.
- The Complete Guide to Solana DEXs
How Solana's decentralized exchanges and aggregators work, the main players, and how to choose between them.
- The Complete Guide to Solana Lending
How Solana lending markets work, the main protocols, and how to think about supplying versus borrowing.
- The Complete Guide to Solana Liquid Staking
How liquid staking works on Solana, the main protocols and their tradeoffs, and the risks of holding an LST.
- The Complete Guide to Solana Wallets
How to choose and set up a Solana wallet, hardware wallet options, and the seed-phrase security basics that matter most.
- The Complete Guide to Yield Farming on Solana
How yield farming actually works on Solana, where the yield comes from, and how to size a farming position sensibly.