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Introduction

Saturn is a sovereign SVM chain with one job: making your transfers, balances, and tokens invisible to everyone but you. These docs cover using it, building on it, and understanding how it settles to Solana.

What Saturn is

Saturn produces its own blocks. It doesn't rent blockspace, share a mempool, or compete for inclusion — a sequencer seals a block every 500 milliseconds, and the whole chain is tuned around a single builtin: the shielded pool.

Real Solana execution. Transactions run on Agave's solana-svm — the same engine as Solana mainnet, not an imitation. Wallets, web3.js, and the solana CLI work unchanged.
Privacy as a chain builtin. Any SPL token can enter a multi-asset shielded pool. Groth16 proofs are verified natively by the node — no compute budget ceiling, no contract someone deployed.
Settled on Solana. State roots and withdrawal roots are posted to a settlement program on Solana. Deposits flow in from L1; withdrawals are claimed on L1 against Merkle proofs.
Honest supply. SATURN has zero pre-mine on mainnet. Every unit in circulation is minted 1:1 against assets locked in the bridge.

One endpoint

Everything on Saturn — wallet connections, the explorer, your own code — speaks standard Solana JSON-RPC to a single URL:

RPC ENDPOINT

https://rpc.saturn.cx

Where to start

You want to use the chain — connect a wallet, then bridge assets in and make your first private transfer.
You want to build on it — the developer quickstart and the JSON-RPC reference cover the whole surface.
You want to know how it works — read the architecture page, then the network parameters.