Erite: Pay by Name on Solana

Pasting a Solana address every time you want to send money is annoying. Erite is a small app that lets you save contacts (name + public key) and then pay them by name—like Venmo or Cash App, but on Solana. You can also send payment requests, pay a priority fee when you’re in a hurry, and use QR codes so someone can pay you without typing your address.

The idea: blockchain payments should feel like paying a friend, not copying hex strings.

What you can do

Contacts — Save people with their Solana public key. No more copy-pasting addresses for the same person.

Pay by name — Pick a contact, enter amount, send. Erite looks up the key and routes the payment.

Payment requests — Ask someone to pay you; add a note and track whether it’s pending or done.

Priority fees — When the network is busy, you can bump the fee so your tx gets picked up faster.

Transaction history — See what you’ve sent and received.

QR payments — Your profile has a QR; someone scans it, your address is pre-filled, they just enter the amount.

Example: splitting lunch

You’re out with a friend and need to pay them back. You’ve already added “Alex” in Erite with his Solana key. You open the app, choose Alex, type the amount, hit Send. The tx goes through on Solana, you get a confirmation, and Alex gets the funds. No address hunting, no “did I copy the right one?”—just pick the name and send.

Tech

Next.js, TypeScript, Solana, Prisma + PostgreSQL, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Framer Motion. Hosted on Vercel.

Possible next steps

Group payments (split a bill with several people), shared vaults with multi-sig, and some UI/API polish. If you want to run it locally or contribute, clone the repo, bun install, set up .env from .env.example, run bunx prisma db push, then bun dev and open http://localhost:3000.