Getting started

Run your first raffle on devnet in under five minutes. No SDK, no CLI: the website is the product. You will need a Solana wallet and a sprinkle of devnet SOL.

Before you start

raffl is on Solana devnet. Anything you create on devnet uses test SOL and never costs real money. If you do not have a wallet yet, the easiest path is to log in with email at the top right of the page; Privy mints an embedded wallet on your behalf.

Connect a wallet

Click Login at the top right. Pick a wallet (Phantom or Solflare) or sign in with email, Google, or Twitter for an embedded wallet. The dropdown that replaces the Login button shows the active address; click it to copy or disconnect.

Create or buy

From here you can do two things:

• Browse and buy. Visit /explore or your dashboard Buyer tab and click into any open raffle. Hit Buy a ticket. The toast pipeline walks you through preparing, signing, and confirming.
• Create your own. Hit + Create raffle on the dashboard or go to /dashboard/create. Fill in the prize amount, ticket price, max and min tickets, and end time, then sign once to escrow the prize.

Watch it settle

When a raffle hits its end time and has cleared the minimum ticket threshold, the creator runs Settle on the raffle page. The button kicks off a three-transaction Switchboard commit-reveal pipeline. Once it confirms, the raffle moves to Settled and the winner is recorded on-chain. The winner can then click Claim prize to release the funds: prize to winner, protocol fee to treasury, ticket revenue to creator. All three transfers happen atomically.

Where next

• Core concepts covers the data model (raffles, tickets, vaults, states).
• Create a raffle walks through every field of the create form.
• Switchboard VRF explains how the winner gets picked and what guarantees that.
• FAQ answers the questions that come up first.