Solana: chain ID, RPC URLs and explorers

Solana RPC URLs That Passed Today's Test

Two Solana RPC URLs passed today's test: the Mainnet Beta endpoint that Anza's docs publish and the free endpoint PublicNode lists on its site. We sent getHealth to each on November 8, 2026, and both answered ok, then getVersion and getGenesisHash to confirm they serve the real mainnet ledger.

• https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com: the public cluster endpoint from Anza's cluster list.
• https://solana-rpc.publicnode.com: a free endpoint run by PublicNode.²

Public endpoints share capacity with everyone, so heavy apps usually run their own node or pay a provider. One free endpoint we tried today returned a paid-plan error, so it is not on the list.

Why Solana Has No Chain ID

Solana has no chain ID because it does not run the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and the EIP-155 chain ID system belongs to EVM networks. A Solana network is named by its cluster (Mainnet Beta, Devnet or Testnet) and pinned by its genesis hash, the fingerprint of its first block.¹

Mainnet Beta's genesis hash is 5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdpKuc147dw2N9d. Anza's docs print it, and both RPCs above returned the same value today. That is why a wallet asks you to pick Mainnet or Devnet instead of typing a number, and why Solana is missing from chainid.network, the registry EVM wallets read. EVM networks, by contrast, each get a number, as the full chain list shows.

Solana Explorers for Transactions and Tokens

Solana explorers turn a wallet address, a token mint or a transaction signature into a readable page. Tether links its USDT mint on Solana Explorer at explorer.solana.com, and Circle links its USDC mint on Solscan at solscan.io, so those two are the explorers both issuers rely on.³

Test tokens live on a separate cluster with separate mints. Circle's list gives 4zMMC9srt5Ri5X14GAgXhaHii3GnPAEERYPJgZJDncDU for USDC on Solana Devnet, so a Devnet transfer shows up only when the explorer is set to Devnet.

USDT and USDC Mint Addresses on Solana

The USDT and USDC mint addresses on Solana come straight from the issuers. A mint is the Solana word for a token's contract: the account that defines the token, explained on the SPL token page.

Tether lists Es9vMFrzaCERmJfrF4H2FYD4KCoNkY11McCe8BenwNYB as its Solana USDT mint, and DefiLlama counts $2.4 billion of USDT there today. Circle's address list gives EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v for USDC on Solana. A token with the same ticker at any other mint is a different token. Every chain's list is on the USDT contract address page.

How Solana Orders Blocks

Solana orders blocks with Proof of History, a running chain of hashes that proves time has passed between events, so validators agree on order without trusting each other's clocks.⁵ One validator at a time, the slot leader, writes entries, and a leader schedule rotates that role every epoch.⁶

Voting and finality are changing. Anza's docs, read November 8, 2026, describe Alpenglow as Solana's upcoming consensus protocol: it swaps Tower BFT's voting for a new component called Votor and targets finality in roughly 150 ms.⁷

Slot 0 of the current mainnet ledger carries a timestamp of March 16, 2020, according to the getBlockTime call we ran today. The network has carried the Mainnet Beta name ever since.

Questions People Ask About Solana: chain ID, RPC URLs and explorers

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Sources

Every number on this page comes from these sources, checked November 9, 2026.

1. docs.anza.xyz/clusters/available
2. publicnode.com
3. tether.to/en/supported-protocols
4. developers.circle.com/stablecoins/usdc-contract-addresses
5. docs.anza.xyz/consensus/synchronization
6. docs.anza.xyz/consensus/leader-rotation
7. docs.anza.xyz/consensus/alpenglow