How Solana's Account Model Differs from Ethereum — and Why It Matters for DeFi Developers
If you've built on Ethereum and you're now exploring Solana, the first thing that will trip you up isn't the language (Rust takes getting used to, but…
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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 Tok…
Solana Transactions Aren't API Calls .. So what are they?
As a backend developer, I came into Solana thinking transactions were basically API requests. You send some data, the network processes it, and you ge…
[Sofi_Log #016] Longevity Protocol: Refactoring Human Uptime via Biohacking
[Sofi_Log: #016] Status: Clear skies, piercing UV rays (UV Index 11) / 1 THB = 4.25 JPY (2026 forecast) Project: sofi.works [Phase: Longevity Protocol…
What I Learned Building NFTs on Solana with Token Extensions
Before this week, NFTs on Solana weren't new to me. I've previously worked with Programmable NFTs ( pNFTs ) and even built projects that integrate the…
From Packet Filter to High-Performance Execution Layer: How Solana Re-Engineered BPF
To understand why Solana can process tens of thousands of transactions per second while maintaining sub-second finality, you have to look past the mar…
Drift Protocol $285M Exploit - North Korean APT Attack on Solana
On April 1, 2026, Solana's largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange Drift Protocol suffered an attack, losing approximately $285 million . Thi…
Keep the Credit Ledger Off-Chain. Checkpoint It On-Chain.
I specced an on-chain credit ledger for a compute network, wrote the mint, and then the token program refused to initialize it. The two extensions I n…
Soulbound Credentials on Solana: Building Revocable Tokens with Non-Transferable + Permanent Delegate
I spent 7 days learning Solana token extensions. Here's what clicked, what surprised me, and the code you need to build tokens that can't be traded bu…
Anatomy of a Solana Transaction: Following Every Step from Creation to Finalization
Over the past few days, I've been learning Solana transactions by doing what every developer eventually does: building things, breaking them, and tryi…
Liquidity Pool Analyzer — Zero-Dep Python CLI for Solana DEX Data
I built a Python CLI that fetches real-time Solana DEX liquidity data — no pip install, no API key, just the standard library and a terminal. Here's h…
What Is Identity on Solana? (For Web2 Developers)
As a Web2 developer, you already have a comfortable mental model of what an "identity" is. When you build a simple app, a user's identity is just a ro…
Solana Transactions Through a Backend Developer’s Eye
Coming from Web2 backend systems, I used to think blockchain interactions were just API calls: send a request, get a response, and move on. Solana qui…
Forget Usernames and Passwords: A Web2 Developer’s Guide to Solana Identity
As a backend developer comfortable with Python, databases, and standard web servers, jumping into Web3 felt like entering an entirely different univer…
Identity on Solana: Your Wallet Is Your Account
If you come from Web2, the idea of “identity” probably means usernames, emails, passwords, and OAuth logins. You have a GitHub account. A Google accou…
Deploy Smart Contracts from Claude Desktop: ContractDeploy MCP Tools
Deploy Smart Contracts from Claude Desktop: Claude Desktop just gained the ability to deploy smart contracts through WAIaaS's MCP tools. With 45 MCP t…
Solana Stores Bytes, Not JSON. Here's What That Actually Means
I spent weeks reading Solana accounts through explorers and RPC calls, seeing nicely formatted data token balances, authorities, supply numbers and th…
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 “n…
Building a Live Solana TPS Meter with OrbitFlare's TypeScript SDK
Every Solana dashboard tells you the network's TPS. None of them tell you how busy the one program you care about is right now. Did Pumpfun cool off a…
My Experience Building My First Token And Having it Exist On-Chain.
There’s something quietly satisfying about seeing a token you built from scratch exist on-chain. Not just a random mint address… But a token with its …
Understanding Solana’s Account Model From a Web2 Perspective
In a previous article I posted on my #100daysofsolana journey, I wrote about how everything on Solana is an account. I spoke briefly about the differe…
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 acc…
You Don’t Exist on Solana (Until You Do)
When we compare a normal(web2) account signup to signup on blockchain(web3) one question comes to mind: how does the blockchain know this account is r…
Indexing Solana Programs in Rust: Notes From a Python Backend Engineer
TL;DR I built a small Solana program activity indexer in Rust to pressure-test the patterns I rely on every day in Python — cursor-based syncs, idempo…
5 Things to Find on Solana Explorer That Will Level Up Your On-Chain Intuition
Why Exploration Beats Documentation You can read about Solana's architecture for hours. Or you can spend 20 minutes on Solana Explorer and see it. Thi…
Solana Explorer Explained: How to Read Blockchain Data Like a Developer
What Is Solana Explorer? If you've spent the last few weeks writing scripts to fetch account balances, decode transactions, and inspect on-chain progr…
The Solana Account Model Explained: Everything is an Account
The Aha Moment During Epoch 1 of #100DaysOfSolana , I hit a wall. I'd built wallets, sent transactions, decoded data — but nothing clicked until I sto…
Demystifying Solana’s Architecture: The Web2 Analogy That Helped Me Finally Understand Accounts
As we approach the end of Epoch 1 of the 100 Days of Solana , it’s time to look back at the core concepts that form the bedrock of everything we build…
Spraay just introduced new endpoints for Solana Agents.
If you've built a Solana DeFi agent recently, you know the shape of the work. You write a quote function. It calls Jupiter directly because that's whe…
Solana Account Data — How I Started Making Sense of Owners, Programs, and Raw Bytes
This is a submission for the 100 Days of Solana Writing Challenge , running from 15 May to 22 May. Where the confusion started When I first started re…