Stage 4 — Performance and shipping (4+ weeks)

Goal: Pinocchio, CU optimization, verifiable builds, multisig

Required resources
#	Resource	Why this one
15	Pinocchio 101 — Blueshift— learn.blueshift.gg	pinocchio 0.11, zero-copy, no_std, manual validation. Rewrite one Anchor program and measure CU.
16	Surfpool → verifiable-build → Squads— github.com	Mainnet-fork integration testing, verified builds, multisig upgrade authority.

Rewrite one Anchor program you own in Pinocchio and measure CU before/after with Mollusk. Deploying to mainnet with a single-key upgrade authority is a self-inflicted rug — use Squads.

Videos for this stage (4)

How to write unit tests for blockchain smart contracts | Learn Mollusk, the SVM Program Test Harness bri · 0:57:06 · 2025-08-27

Mollusk test harness - how you produce the P1 CU benchmark

Pinocchio Tutorial | Learn the zero-dependency library for writing rust smart contracts bri · 1:38:48 · 2025-09-17

Pinocchio deep dive - most valuable single video here for a Rust-first path

Codama Tutorial | Learn how to use the smart contract IDL generator bri · 0:46:54 · 2025-09-17

Codama IDL generator - generates Rust clients too, not just TS

Solana Developer Bootcamp 2026 Project 12: Production Readiness Solana · 0:09:44 · 2026-04-03

Bootcamp Project 12: production readiness

Verified versions — fetched 2026-09-02 at build (source: 2026-09-02T03:52:25.944Z)
Package	Version	Source
`pinocchio`	`0.11.2`	crates.io/crates/pinocchio
`star_frame`	`0.30.0`	crates.io/crates/star_frame
`litesvm`	`0.16.0`	crates.io/crates/litesvm
`anchor-lang`	`1.1.2`	crates.io/crates/anchor-lang
`carbon-core`	`1.0.0`	crates.io/crates/carbon-core
`yellowstone-grpc-client`	`13.5.0`	crates.io/crates/yellowstone-grpc-client
`ephemeral-rollups-sdk`	`0.17.0`	crates.io/crates/ephemeral-rollups-sdk
`axum`	`0.8.9`	crates.io/crates/axum
`sqlx`	`0.9.0`	crates.io/crates/sqlx
`tokio`	`1.53.1`	crates.io/crates/tokio
`solana-client`	`4.2.2`	crates.io/crates/solana-client
`solana-sdk`	`4.1.0`	crates.io/crates/solana-sdk
`borsh`	`1.8.1`	crates.io/crates/borsh
`@solana/kit`	`8.2.0`	www.npmjs.com/package/@solana/kit
`gill`	`0.14.0`	www.npmjs.com/package/gill
`codama`	`1.10.2`	www.npmjs.com/package/codama
`@coral-xyz/anchor`	`0.32.1`	www.npmjs.com/package/@coral-xyz/anchor
`@solana/web3.js`	`1.98.4`	www.npmjs.com/package/@solana/web3.js
`agave-cli`	`4.2.2`	github.com/anza-xyz/agave/releases
`rust`	`1.98.0`	github.com/rust-lang/rust/releases/lates
`surfpool`	`1.4.0`	solana-install.solana.workers.dev
`anchor-installer`	`1.1.2`	solana-install.solana.workers.dev
`node-installer`	`24.10.0`	solana-install.solana.workers.dev

Anchor version trap: Rust crate anchor-lang 1.1.2 and npm @coral-xyz/anchor 0.32.1 are two separately versioned halves of the same project — not alternative versions. Guides writing "Anchor 0.32 / 1.1.x" describe both at once.