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Name the needle. Stop paging the haystack.

Name the needle. Stop paging the haystack.

Helius just taught its Solana API to dig for you.

Parsed Events Scan, live Nov. 3, walks any address's history server-side and returns only the matches — already parsed. Filter by program, instruction name, mint, or native SOL. Up to 20 programs in one call.

Their demo: 3,402 Pump.fun txs scanned for the 10 most recent creator-fee claims in 182 ms, for 14 credits. The old getTransactionsForAddress path for the same haul: 350 credits, before you even parse.

Default budget is 10,000 txs a request, 100 matches back. Enhanced Transactions stays in maintenance; this is the successor.

You used to page the haystack. Now you name the needle.

Source: Helius blog

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