100 Days of Solana is a wrap!
Over the past 100 days, we’ve gone from the basics of wallets and transactions to deploying programs on Solana devnet. Some people completed every c…
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Turning Solana Skills Into a Web3 Career
There is a gap between being able to do technical work and being hired to do it. The first is a question of skill, and if you have spent months writ…
CPI on Solana: The Mental Model I Wish I Had on Day 71
I stared at CpiContext::new(...) for a solid ten minutes on Day 71. I knew the arguments existed. I had no idea what they meant. I copied working co…
What Token Extensions Are and Why a Web2 Developer Should Care
You already understand tokens. Extensions are just middleware for your money. If you have ever worked with Stripe, you know the pattern. You start w…
Arc 7 Catch-Up: Building NFTs from First Principles
Arc 7 of 100 Days of Solana was about building NFTs from first principles. Instead of starting with marketplaces, profile pictures, or NFT culture,…
Three Token-2022 Mints in One Week: Fees, Yield, and Soulbound
If you come from Web2, you probably think of a token as a number in a database that moves around when people transact. On Solana, the original SPL T…
The Rust You Actually Need to Write Your First Anchor Program
If you have made it this far in 100 Days of Solana, you have been working in JavaScript and on the command line. You have been calling RPC methods,…
Fungible and Non-Fungible Tokens on Solana: Same System, Different Rules
If you have been following the 100 Days of Solana challenges, you have already worked with tokens. You created mints, set up token accounts, transfe…
Two Weeks Into Learning Solana
Coming from a Python and Node.js backend background, I honestly expected blockchain development to feel extremely complicated and disconnected from…
Understanding Solana's Account Model: A Web2 Developer's Guide
Solana as a Giant Database Think of Solana as a massive, globally distributed database where every piece of data lives in its own record called an a…
Solana’s Account Model: A Web2 Developer’s Guide to On-Chain Storage - Hala Kabir
If you are a Web2 developer dipping your toes into Web3 , the word " account " probably conjures up images of user profiles, usernames, and password…
From Python Scripts to On-Chain Forensics: The Mental Shifts of Learning Solana (Epoch 1)
Introduction When I registered for the 100 Days of Solana challenge, I didn’t just want to copy-paste code to get a green checkmark. Coming from a b…
Solana Transactions Explained for Backend Developers
Learning Solana transactions completely changed how I think about backend systems. At first, I treated transactions like normal API requests: client…
Understanding Solana's transaction anatomy
📖 Overview For the past week, I’ve been reading data from the Solana blockchain. This project marks the shift from reading state to writing state. T…
Two weeks with Solana - Personal experience
Been spending the last ~10 days getting hands-on with Solana as part of a hackathon. Went in expecting things to feel completely different from what…