Solana Kite 🪁

A Rust library that works great with LiteSVM for testing your Solana programs. High-level abstractions for common Solana operations — wallets, transactions, SPL tokens, Token Extensions, transfer hooks, PDAs, and program deployment.

Features

• 🚀 Program Deployment: Deploy programs from files or bytes (include_bytes!)
• 💸 Transaction Utilities: Send transactions from instructions with proper signing
• 🪙 SPL Token Operations: Create mints, ATAs, mint tokens, check balances
• 🔐 Token Extensions: Create mints with transfer hooks, transfer fees, permanent delegates, non-transferable tokens, and more
• 🪝 Transfer Hook Support: ExtraAccountMetaList setup and transfer helpers
• 👛 Wallet Management: Create funded wallets in one call
• 🔑 PDA Utilities: Type-safe seed handling with the seeds! macro
• 📚 Well Documented: Extensive docs and examples

Installation

cargo add --dev solana-kite

or add to your Cargo.toml:

[dev-dependencies]
solana-kite = "0.3"

Compatibility: Solana 3.x / Anchor 1.0 / LiteSVM 0.11

Quick Start

use solana_kite::{create_wallet, create_token_mint, create_associated_token_account, mint_tokens_to_token_account};
use litesvm::LiteSVM;
use solana_signer::Signer;

let mut svm = LiteSVM::new();

// Create a funded wallet
let authority = create_wallet(&mut svm, 1_000_000_000).unwrap();

// Create a token mint (6 decimals, like USDC)
let mint = create_token_mint(&mut svm, &authority, 6, None).unwrap();

// Create associated token account
let ata = create_associated_token_account(&mut svm, &authority.pubkey(), &mint, &authority).unwrap();

// Mint 1000 tokens
mint_tokens_to_token_account(&mut svm, &mint, &ata, 1_000_000_000, &authority).unwrap();

API Overview

Wallets

use solana_kite::{create_wallet, create_wallets};

let wallet = create_wallet(&mut svm, 1_000_000_000)?; // 1 SOL
let wallets = create_wallets(&mut svm, 5, 1_000_000_000)?; // 5 wallets, 1 SOL each

SOL Balances

use solana_kite::{get_sol_balance, assert_sol_balance};

let balance = get_sol_balance(&svm, &wallet.pubkey()); // returns lamports, 0 if account missing
assert_sol_balance(&svm, &wallet.pubkey(), 1_000_000_000, "Should have 1 SOL");

Transactions

use solana_kite::send_transaction_from_instructions;

send_transaction_from_instructions(
    &mut svm,
    vec![instruction1, instruction2],
    &[&payer, &other_signer],
    &payer.pubkey(),
)?;

SPL Token Operations

use solana_kite::{
    create_token_mint, create_associated_token_account, get_token_account_address,
    mint_tokens_to_token_account, get_token_account_balance, assert_token_account_balance,
};

let mint = create_token_mint(&mut svm, &authority, 9, None)?;

// Pre-compute the ATA address before creating it
let ata_address = get_token_account_address(&owner.pubkey(), &mint);

let ata = create_associated_token_account(&mut svm, &owner.pubkey(), &mint, &payer)?;
assert_eq!(ata_address, ata);
mint_tokens_to_token_account(&mut svm, &mint, &ata, 1_000_000_000, &authority)?;
assert_token_account_balance(&svm, &ata, 1_000_000_000, "Should have 1B tokens");

Token Extensions

Create mints with extensions — transfer hooks, transfer fees, permanent delegates, non-transferable tokens, and more:

use solana_kite::{
    create_token_extensions_mint, create_token_extensions_account,
    get_token_extensions_account_address, mint_tokens_to_token_extensions_account,
    transfer_checked_token_extensions, MintExtension, TokenAccountState,
};

// Create a mint with transfer fee extension
let mint = create_token_extensions_mint(
    &mut svm,
    &authority,
    6,
    None,
    &[MintExtension::TransferFee {
        fee_basis_points: 100, // 1%
        maximum_fee: 1_000_000,
    }],
)?;

// Pre-compute an ATA address before creating it (e.g. to pass to a program instruction)
let sender_ata_address = get_token_extensions_account_address(&sender.pubkey(), &mint);

// Create token accounts, mint, and transfer
let sender_ata = create_token_extensions_account(&mut svm, &sender.pubkey(), &mint, &payer)?;
let receiver_ata = create_token_extensions_account(&mut svm, &receiver.pubkey(), &mint, &payer)?;
mint_tokens_to_token_extensions_account(&mut svm, &mint, &sender_ata, 1_000_000, &authority)?;
transfer_checked_token_extensions(&mut svm, &sender_ata, &mint, &receiver_ata, &sender, 500_000, 6, &[])?;

Supported extensions:

• TransferHook — attach a hook program to transfers
• TransferFee — automatic fee collection on transfers
• MintCloseAuthority — allow closing the mint account
• PermanentDelegate — irrevocable delegate authority
• NonTransferable — soulbound tokens
• DefaultAccountState — new token accounts start in a given TokenAccountState (Frozen, Initialized, or Uninitialized)
• InterestBearing — display interest rate on token
• MetadataPointer — point to onchain metadata

Transfer Hooks

use solana_kite::{
    initialize_hook_accounts, get_hook_accounts_address,
    build_hook_accounts, HookAccount,
};

// Initialize the ExtraAccountMetaList PDA for your hook program
initialize_hook_accounts(
    &mut svm,
    &hook_program_id,
    &mint,
    &authority,
    &hook_accounts,
)?;

// Build accounts to pass into a hook-aware transfer
let hook_accounts = build_hook_accounts(&mint, &hook_program_id, &hook_accounts);

Program Deployment

use solana_kite::{deploy_program, deploy_program_bytes};

// From a file path
deploy_program(&mut svm, &program_id, "./target/deploy/my_program.so")?;

// From bytes (works with include_bytes!)
let bytes = include_bytes!("../target/deploy/my_program.so");
deploy_program_bytes(&mut svm, &program_id, bytes)?;

PDAs

use solana_kite::{get_pda_and_bump, Seed};

let (pda, bump) = get_pda_and_bump(
    &seeds!["user-account", user_address, 42u64],
    &program_id,
);

Account Utilities

use solana_kite::check_account_is_closed;

check_account_is_closed(&svm, &account_pubkey, "Account should be closed after this instruction");

Error Handling

All functions return Result<T, SolanaKiteError>:

use solana_kite::SolanaKiteError;

match some_operation() {
    Ok(result) => println!("Success: {:?}", result),
    Err(SolanaKiteError::TransactionFailed(msg)) => eprintln!("Tx failed: {}", msg),
    Err(SolanaKiteError::TokenOperationFailed(msg)) => eprintln!("Token op failed: {}", msg),
    Err(e) => eprintln!("Error: {}", e),
}

Examples

cargo run --example basic_usage
cargo run --example token_operations
cargo run --example token_extensions_operations
cargo run --example transfer_hook_operations

Testing

cargo test

License

MIT — see LICENSE.md.

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