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

You can find the source code for the tutorial examples in the repo below.

GitHub - everlastingsong/tour-de-whirlpoolGitHub

How to get help

• Join Orca's Discord.

• Frequently asked questions are listed in #dev-resources

• Ask your questions in #dev-questions.

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Tutorial

Preparation

• Setting up your environment

• Obtaining SOL tokens

Basic Wallet Functionality

• Checking Balances

• Sending

Swap

• Swapping Tokens

Position Management

• Opening a Position

• Obtaining a List of Open Positions and Checking Position Status

• Adding Liquidity to a Position

• Withdrawing Liquidity From a Position

• Harvesting Fees and Rewards From a Position

• Closing a Position

Bonus

• Opening a Position Without Metadata