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Solana: the hidden dangers of lamport transfers

Solana’s lamport transfer logic hides dangerous edge cases — from rent-exemption quirks to write-demotion traps. We dissect a deceptively simple smart contract game to expose how transfers to arbitrary accounts can silently fail, brick your program, or crown an eternal king.
Nicola Vella

Solana: jumping around in the VM

An exploration of low-level Solana VM behavior. How to escalate from a powerful memory corruption primitive to full program control.
Nicola Vella, Robert Chen