🛠️Build on Serum

This guide gives an overview on how builders can get involved and build on the Serum ecosystem.

🏗️ How Can We Get Involved?

These guide pages will direct you to developer resources, popular ideas, and tutorials building in the Serum and Solana ecosystems.

Project Ideas

🔗 Useful links

• Solana Blockchain

• Solana Program Library

• Solana Web3 SDK

• Solana Explorer

• Solana Hello World

• Solana Technical Documentation

• Solana Discord

• Solana Wormhole - (bidirectional, trustless ERC-20 ⇄ SPL token bridge)

  • Github repository

  • Medium article

• Solnet SDK (.NET integration for Solana)

• NFT example

• Solana Go

⚗️ Serum

• Awesome Serum - (Github)

• Solnet.Serum (.NET integration for Serum)

• PySerum (Python client library for interacting with Serum)

⭐ Popular Resources

Serum Core (Asset Agnostic Order Book)

• Smart contract AAOB: https://bonfida.github.io/doc-aob-program/agnostic_orderbook/

• Smart contract DEX: https://bonfida.github.io/doc-dex-program/dex_v3/

• JS Lib for the DEX: https://bonfida.github.io/doc-dex-js/

Anchor

Framework for Solana's Sealevel runtime providing several convenient developer tools.

GitHub - solana-foundation/anchor: ⚓ Solana Program FrameworkGitHub

Swap Program

An educational resource and starting point for people who want to write Solana programs to compose with Serum DEX.

• Example on-chain program interacting with the DEX.

• The Swap Program here is not an AMM. The Program is built directly on the Serum orderbook.

GitHub - project-serum/swap-ui: React Component for Swapping on the Serum DEXGitHub

Host a GUI

Host your own state-of-the-art GUI and earn a portion of the fees!

• An implementation of a UI for the Serum DEX.

• If you are hosting a public UI using this codebase, you can collect referral fees when your users trade through your site.

GitHub - project-serum/serum-dex-ui: Example implementation of a UI for the Serum DEXGitHub

Host a GUI

Permissioned Markets

A permissioned market is a regular Serum market with an additional open orders authority, which must sign every transaction to create an open orders account.

GitHub - project-serum/permissioned-markets-quickstart: Quickstart repo for creating a permissioned market proxy on the Serum DEXGitHub

📌 Pinned Repositories

Project SerumGitHub

Client Code

serum-ts/packages/serum at master · project-serum/serum-tsGitHub

On-chain Code

serum-dex/dex at master · project-serum/serum-dexGitHub

Starter Repo

Serum quick start repo to setup a local on-chain integration:

• For those who want to build programs that compose with the DEX

• Contains boilerplates for setting up a populated Serum market for local development

GitHub - armaniferrante/serum-quickstartGitHub

SOL Wallet Adapter

Library to allow Solana dApps to user third party wallets to sign transactions:

GitHub - project-serum/sol-wallet-adapterGitHub

🌟 What Makes a Great Project?

Usefulness: What do users want? The links above ("How can we contribute?") offer popular ideas users have asked for.

Well-built: Efficacy, intuitiveness, security, and reliability are some of the tell-tale traits of a good project. Check out the list of popularly requested for projects on Serum for reference.

Users: Your userbase will make or break your project, whether it's through word-of-mouth, marketing, partnerships, or other customer acquisition methods.

Building on Serum’s VisionMedium