Versioned Transactions

Solana added Versioned Transactions to enable additional functionality in the Solana Runtime. These changes improved the capabilities of Solana dapps, but they have created some compatibility problems because unfortunately not all products in the ecosystem have integrated them.

One of the biggest compatibility problems is in detecting whether a wallet supports versioned transactions or not. For example, WalletConnect has added support for Versioned Transactions, but most* of the underlying wallets have not.

Why do I care about versioned transactions?

If your wallet supports versioned transactions, you don't need to worry and everything on the Drift UI should work as expected (as long as you have versioned transactions enabled in Drift, the default setting).

If your wallet does not support versioned transactions, you will currently not be able to use Drift's spot swap functionality, as this feature currently only works with versioned transactions.

How do I enable versioned transactions in Drift?

By default versioned transactions should be enabled, but you can double-check and edit this setting by going to Settings -> Other -> Enable Versioned Transactions

How do I know if my wallet supports versioned transactions?

The simplest approach: turn versioned transactions on in Drift and then test whether you can interact and make transactions as expected. If you can, your wallet supports versioned transactions. If not, it doesn't.

Some wallets may also specify their capabilities in their own documentation.

Tips for users whose wallets don't support versioned transactions

If you don't intend to use swaps in Drift, you should be able to continue to use the product as usual*. If you would like to switch to a wallet which does support versioned transactions, here are some wallets we confirmed support versioned transactions based on our own testing.***

• Phantom

• Solflare

• Backpack

• Brave Wallet

Notes & disclaimers

• • Based on results of manually testing a range of WalletConnect-supporting wallets. This is by no means exhaustive, and is expected to change over time.

• ** This may change in the future.

• *** Note: We have not exhaustively checked all wallets, and this is not an endorsement of the security practices of the wallet provider. You should do your own research when choosing a wallet.