# Solana Portfolio API: A Complete Guide

> What it takes to read a Solana wallet properly — SPL tokens, staking, lending and perps — and why Solana coverage varies so much between providers.

- **URL:** https://octav.fi/blog/solana-portfolio-api-guide
- **Published:** 2026-06-30
- **Author:** Octav Team — Portfolio Intelligence for Digital Assets
- **Topic:** Chains
- **Tags:** solana, api, developers
- **Source:** Octav, Practical guides on crypto NAV reporting, multi-chain portfolio management and digital asset APIs, from the team behind Octav.

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Solana is the chain where portfolio API coverage varies most. On an EVM wallet
the major providers broadly agree. On an active Solana wallet they can differ by
nearly 3× — $26.04M against ~$9.67M on the same address in
[our benchmark](/crypto-portfolio-api-benchmark).

This guide covers what a Solana portfolio actually contains and what to require
from a provider.

## Why Solana is harder than an EVM chain

It is not that Solana is more complex. It is that Solana support is a separate
engineering investment rather than a configuration change.

| | EVM chains | Solana |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address format | `0x…` hex | base58 |
| Account model | Contract storage | Program-derived accounts |
| Adding a new chain | Largely reuse existing decoders | A distinct integration |
| Token standard | ERC-20 | SPL |

A provider that supports ten EVM chains got most of that for free after the
first. Nothing about that work transfers to Solana, which is why several
providers simply do not offer it — and why coverage among those that do ranges
from token balances to full position decoding.

## What a Solana wallet holds

| Layer | Examples | Balance query sees |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SPL tokens | USDC, JUP, BONK | Everything |
| Native staking | Stake accounts | Nothing — separate accounts |
| Liquid staking | jitoSOL, mSOL | A token, priced wrongly |
| Lending | Kamino, Jupiter Lend | An obligation, unreadable |
| Liquidity | Orca, Raydium | An LP token |
| Perps | On-chain perp venues | Nothing |

Only the first row is straightforward. Everything below it needs
program-specific decoding, covered in depth in
[Tracking Solana DeFi Positions](/solana-defi-portfolio-tracking).

## Querying Solana

Solana addresses go through the same endpoint as EVM addresses, which matters
for anyone running a mixed portfolio:

```bash
curl -s https://api.octav.fi/v1/portfolio \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OCTAV_API_KEY" \
  -G --data-urlencode "addresses=<solana-address>,0x<evm-address>"
```

One call, one credit, both ecosystems, one response shape. The alternative —
a Solana-specific provider alongside an EVM one — means two integrations, two
price sources and a reconciliation problem between them.

Solana also has a dedicated endpoint that has no EVM equivalent:

```bash
curl -s https://api.octav.fi/v1/airdrop \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OCTAV_API_KEY" \
  -G --data-urlencode "addresses=<solana-address>"
```

Full parameters in the
[endpoint reference](/crypto-portfolio-api-endpoint-reference).

## Choosing a Solana provider

Three questions, in order of how much they matter:

**1. Is Solana DeFi decoded, or only SPL balances?** This is the 3× question.
Ask specifically about Kamino and Jupiter Lend rather than about "Solana
support" in the abstract.

**2. Are LSTs valued from the underlying stake?** `jitoSOL` and `mSOL` accrue
against SOL, so pricing them as loose tokens understates the position — the same
mechanism described in
[Valuing stETH and Liquid Staking](/valuing-steth-liquid-staking).

**3. Is Solana in the same call as EVM, or a separate product?** This determines
whether you build one integration or two.

Two honest caveats on our own scores: TopLedger is Solana-native and scores 70
on coverage but 9 on chain breadth — excellent if Solana is all you need. And
Octav's benchmark performance score is 40; decoding this much takes time. See
[Octav vs DeBank vs Zerion](/octav-vs-debank-vs-zerion).

## For AI agents

If an agent is analysing Solana wallets, the silent-omission problem is worse
than for humans, because the agent has no prior about what should be there. See
[A Crypto Portfolio MCP Server for AI Agents](/crypto-portfolio-mcp-server).