Back to all news
Solana

Why Solana Addresses Rarely Start With R or a · Raven Wallet

Medium Solana·November 3, 2026·1 min read
Why Solana Addresses Rarely Start With R or a · Raven Wallet

A Raven Wallet analysis of one million Solana keys found that nearly 19 in 20 addresses start with a digit from 2 to 9 or a capital A, explaining why addresses rarely begin with R or a. The distribution reflects the base-58 encoding of the 256-bit key hash, where the first character is not uniformly random.

Read at Medium Solana
Daily crypto arcade

Read the news, then play it.

Chainshorts turns crypto headlines into a daily game. Catch up in 60 words, then jump into daily lucky draws for a shot at the pot.

Open ChainshortsGet it on the Solana dApp Store