Solana Pawn Stars
Solana Pawn Stars: stopping a live drain
Frontend lead on a Solana NFT pawn platform delivered in two weeks, and the night a live security breach was draining funds: what it took to stop it.
- Company
- Solana Pawn Stars
- Role
- Frontend Developer (contract)
- Period
- 2022
- Funds drainage halted
- $10k+
- Platform delivered in
- 2 weeks
- Stack
- React
- NestJS
- TypeScript
- MongoDB
- Solana Web3
- SPL Token
- DigitalOcean
- Sentry
The platform
An NFT pawn platform on Solana: connect a wallet, pawn an NFT, receive a loan, repay or default. I led the React frontend — wallet connection over Solana Web3, the pawning flow and loan disbursements — and delivered a hardened, production-ready platform within two weeks despite critical Web3 API integration delays.
The fix
The fixes halted the drainage — over $10k had already gone — and prevented further losses.
Hardening
Afterwards I built an auction system for defaulted loans and an admin dashboard for transaction monitoring and blacklisting.