Solarweave Bridge

An easy, simple and effective way to store Solana Blocks into Arweave via command line. Solarweave's core objective is to make it as easy as possible to navigate, store and analyze blocks from Solana.

Solarweave uses extensive tag annotations in order to make it as easy as possible to navigate the database via ArQL. Check the ArQL section to learn more.

If you want to review the benchmarks for Solarweave, check out the Benchmarks document.

Solarweave is also now accessible as a library. Check out the Library document to learn more!

Do you need more flexibility when livestreaming blocks? Check out the example Workflows documents to learn more.

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Getting started

This package is also available on OpenBits

First install solarweave via npm, yarn or openbits

npm install @theronin/solarweave --global

or

yarn global add @theronin/solarweave

or

npm install openbits --global
openbits install @theronin/solarweave --global

Confirm your installation of solarweave by running the help command which will output the following:

$ solarweave help

Usage: Solarweave Bridge [options] [command]

Options:
  --database [name]          the name of the database (for Arweave ArQL tags) (default: "solarweave-devnet")
  --gql [URL]                the Arweave GraphQL URL to query blocks (default: "https://arweave.dev/graphql")
  --url [RPC URL]            the Solana RPC URL to query blocks from (default: "https://devnet.solana.com")
  --credentials [file path]  specify the path to the json file containing your Arweave credentials (default: ".arweave.creds.json")
  --local                    cache locally to a JSON file instead of to Arweave (default: false)
  --localFile [file path]    if caching data locally, specify the file path (default: "solarweave.cache.json")
  --console                  do not output log data to console (default: false)
  --debug                    show more verbose debug logs in the console (default: false)
  --uncompressed             store blocks in an uncompressed format (default: false)
  --parallelize [blocks]     the amount of blocks to process at a time, 1 processes 1 block at a time, 8, 8 blocks at a time (default: "1")
  --batch [number]           the number of requests to batch per Arweave transaction (default: "1")
  --benchmark                benchmark Solarweave and start tracking size and speed stats stored in benchmark.json (default: false)
  --noverify                 if caching to Arweave do not double check if the block was already submitted (default: false)
  --index                    if caching to Arweave, index blocks according to signatures and account keys (default: false)
  --start [number]           the block number to start at
  --end [number]             the block number to end at
  -h, --help                 display help for command

Commands:
  balance                    retrieve the public address and balance of your Arweave wallet
  latest                     retrieve the latest block and output the block to console
  livestream                 livestream blocks directly to your arweave database (or locally)
  cache                      retrieve all the blocks that are still available and store them in Arweave
  index                      index an existing database with their Account Keys and Signatures
  version                    Get the current version of Solarweave
  help [command]             display help for command

Setting credentials

In order to use the Solarweave bridge. You must have Arweave credentials readily available with tokens. You can store credentials in the root project directory under .arweave.creds.json. Or, whilst using the command line tool. You can pass in your credentials manually.

solarweave --credentials /path/to/.arweave.creds.json

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Storing Blocks to Arweave

Before attempting to store data with Solarweave. First check and make sure that you can store data into Arweave by running the balance command.

$ solarweave balance

Your Arweave public address is 1seRanklLU_1VTGkEk7P0xAwMJfA7owA1JHW5KyZKlY
Your Arweave balance is 149998554627

If you can't see your public address and balance. It means your .arweave.creds.json is not properly configured. Make sure to have a sufficent balance to post data too.

Furthermore, you can also run the latest command to make sure you have a working connection with Solana.

$ solarweave latest

Preparing to retrieve the latest block

Found Block with Parent Slot #1025206
Block Hash: 7HSFZ67NQNPDDhGGUzEgd3afVxpEoKoox9ZHuJE9u5BR
Previous Block Hash: 4Qw6EnjmXD9PJWpA2QWoZZK2zPRhbVBeyPqCsVB4epSy

Livestreaming Blocks

You can choose to start at the latest slot and start livestreaming Solana blocks to Arweave with the livestream. You can then query those blocks via ArQL.

$ solarweave livestream

Transmitted Solana Block to Arweave with Parent Slot #1025206
Solana Block Hash: 7HSFZ67NQNPDDhGGUzEgd3afVxpEoKoox9ZHuJE9u5BR

Caching all Blocks

If you want to start caching every block and not just new ones. You can run the cache command.

$ solarweave cache

Cache is at Block 1025207, latest block is 1925007

Transmitted Solana Block to Arweave with Parent Slot #1025206
Solana Block Hash: 7HSFZ67NQNPDDhGGUzEgd3afVxpEoKoox9ZHuJE9u5BR

Indexing Blocks

If you want to index an existing Arweave Database. You can run the index command.

$ solarweave cache

Cache is at Block 1025207, latest block is 1925007

Transmitted Solana Block to Arweave with Parent Slot #1025206
Solana Block Hash: 7HSFZ67NQNPDDhGGUzEgd3afVxpEoKoox9ZHuJE9u5BR

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Additional Configuration

Local streaming

For testing purposes. You might want to store blocks locally. All you need to do is pass the --local flag to Solarweave.

$ solarweave livestream --local

This will start streaming blocks to a JSON file solarweave.cache.json. If you want to stream to a different file, use:

$ solarweave livestream --local --localFile /path/to/solarweave.cache.json

Console output

You can turn off console out put by passing the console flag.

$ solarweave --console

Debug output

You can debug Solana RPC request and responses and Arweave requests and response with the debug flag.

$ solarweave --debug

Compression

This command does not impact local files. However, when storing blocks in Arweave. If you wanted to store a raw JSON string instead of a serialized binary flatbuffer. You can pass the uncompressed flag.

$ solarweave --uncompressed

RPC URL

If you want to query blocks from a different RPC url. You can use the url flag.

$ solarweave --url https://devnet.solana.com

GraphQL URL

If you want to query blocks from a different GraphQL url. You can use the gql flag.

$ solarweave --gql https://arweave.dev/graphql

Database tag

You can change the database tag for ArQL by using the database flag. This will change database tag and can help you navigate blocks from different networks.

$ solarweave --database devnet

Increasing throughput

You can change the rate and speed at which Solarweave processes blocks by using the --parallelize flag. The number you specify is the number of blocks that Solarweave will process at a time. The default is 1, but say you were working with a local validator. You could easily bump it to 8 or 16.

$ solarweave --parallelize 8

Batching Queries

You can also improve performance by batching queries using the --batch flag. The number you specify is the --parallelize flag multiplied by the batch number. An example use case is as follows:

# Query 500 blocks in 5 requests
$ solarweave --parallelize 100 --batch 5

# Query 1000 blocks in 4 requests
$ solarweave --parallelize 250 --batch 4 

Benchmarking

If you wanted to keep track of the stats for Solarweave. You can use the --benchmark flag. It will store in benchmark.json how long it took for each block to be processed as well as the final size of the block.

$ solarweave --benchmark

Double Checking

If in any case you didn't want to double check that if a block was already submitted to Arweave. You can use the --noverify flag.

$ solarweave --noverify

Indexing Blocks

If you wanted to index blocks by both signature and account key. You can use pass the --index flag.

Note that this has been disabled by default for performance reasons

$ solarweave --index

Start at a specific block

If you want to start at a specific block, use the --start flag

$ solarweave --start 100

End at a specific block

If you want to end the process at a specific block, use the --end flag

$ solarweave --end 100

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Finding Blocks with ArQL

Each block is supplied several tags in order to help you traverse the database. The top level tags are as follows.

database

As mentioned in the Additional Configuration section. The database tag should be used to identify which chain (or archive version) of Solana you're navigating.

parentSlot

This is the parent slot provided by the confirmed block.

slot

This is the slot of the confirmed block.

blockhash

This is the blockhash provided by the confirmed block.

Transaction Indexed Tags

In the case you ever wanted to navigate blocks by specific transaction account keys or signatures. You can navigate the indexed version of the database.

Signatures

Signatures are compacted into arrays and are indexed based on the order of transactions. Retrieving the signature is fairly straight forward.

const signature = IndexBlock.Tags.filter(t => t.name === 'signature')[0];

Example Usage

import { RetrieveSignature } from '@theronin/solarweave';
const Block = await RetrieveSignature('...Solana Signature');

console.log(Block);
// { BlockData, Tags }

Account Keys

You can retrieve several blocks associated with an account key by using the RetrieveAccount function.

const accountKey = IndexBlock.Tags.filter(t => t.name === 'accountKey')[0];

Example Usage

import { RetrieveAccount } from '@theronin/solarweave';
const Blocks = await RetrieveAccount('...Account Key', 10);

console.log(Blocks);
// [ { BlockData, Tags } ... ]

Additional Tags

Additional tags are provided for the metadata of the transaction.

programIdIndex
numReadonlySignedAccounts
numReadonlyUnsignedAccounts
numRequiredSignatures

accountKey[]
signature[]

If you want to get a specific accountKey via Arweave Tags.

accountKey[0]
accountKey[1]

signature[0]
signature[1]

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License

MIT ©