PDAs

10 pages in this section.

How program-derived addresses fit together: seeds, find_program_address, canonical bumps, creation, invoke_signed, authorities, and the security rules that keep vaults safe.

Explainer Program Derived Addresses Pda Seeds

PDA Basics

What PDAs are and why they exist.

Rust Pda Program Derived Addresses Basics

Deriving PDAs

Seeds, `find_program_address`, and the bump.

Rust Pda Seeds Find Program Address

Canonical Bumps

Rust Bump Pda Seeds

Signing with PDAs

Rust Invoke Signed Pda Cpi

PDAs as Authorities

Program-controlled mints, vaults, and escrows.

Rust Pda Vault Mint Authority

PDA Account Creation

Rust Pda Create Account Init

Seed Design & Collisions

Rust Pda Seeds Design

PDA Security Pitfalls

Rust Pda Security Vulnerabilities

PDA Best Practices

Deterministic, collision-safe, verifiable derivations.

Rust Pda Best Practices List

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