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Tutorial: Tour de Whirlpool

Overview​

What is Tour de Whirlpool?​

Tour de Whirlpool explains how to create programs that interact with Orca Whirlpools. In this tutorial you will learn how to perform the following operations programmatically.

  • Check balances for SOL and tokens
  • Send SOL and tokens
  • Perform swaps with both SOL and tokens
  • Manage Whirlpools positions
    • Open a position
    • Obtain a list of open positions
    • Check position status
    • Increase a position's liquidity
    • Decrease a position's liquidity
    • Harvest fees and rewards from a position
    • Close a position

Target Audience​

  • Previous experience using Solana, Orca, and Whirlpools from the web UI
  • Previous experience with Typescript or a similar language

Tools Used​

  • Typescript, for example code
  • Node.js, for running examples
  • Phantom, for Wallet actions
  • Solana CLI is used in tandem with Phantom for some Wallet actions
  • Devnet, for network interactions (It's free!)
  • This tutorial explains how to obtain the tokens used in examples

Source Code​

🔗 Tour de Whirlpool

https://github.com/everlastingsong/tour-de-whirlpool/

How to get help​