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Request a Devnet Airdrop and Confirm Funding

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Recipe · 5 steps

Request a Devnet Airdrop and Confirm Funding

with Solana

Fund a Devnet or Testnet address with SOL and verify the balance change.

  1. Confirm the RPC node is caught up with the cluster before spending an airdrop request against a node that would reject or stall it.
  2. Record the lamport balance before the airdrop so the increase can be verified afterwards.
  3. Ask the Devnet or Testnet faucet to credit the address with the requested lamports. Returns the airdrop transaction signature.
  4. Poll the airdrop signature until the cluster confirms it, retrying while the transaction works its way through the slots.
  5. Re-read the balance to prove the airdropped lamports actually landed in the account.
What you'll need to have ready
  • address: Base58-encoded public key to fund.
  • lamports: Lamports to airdrop (1 SOL = 1,000,000,000 lamports).
For your developer

Arazzo workflow solana:devnet-airdrop, 5 operations: getHealth → getBalance → requestAirdrop → getSignatureStatuses → getBalance. Specs on APIs.io.

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