Intro to Solana

by James Pacheco and others

Welcome to the best starting point for Web Developers looking to learn Web3 Development. Solana's high speed, low cost, and energy efficiency make it the ideal network to learn on.

Module 1

Client Interaction with the Solana Network

Read data from the network

Lesson 1

Write data to the network

Lesson 2

Interact with wallets

Lesson 3

Serialize custom instruction data

Lesson 4

Deserialize custom account data

Lesson 5

Page, Order, and Filter custom account data

Lesson 6

Module 2

Client Interaction with Common Solana Programs

Create tokens with the Token Program

Lesson 1

Swap tokens with the Token Swap Program

Lesson 2

Create Solana NFTs With Metaplex

Lesson 3

Module 3

Basic Solana Program Development

Hello World

Lesson 1

Create a Basic Program, Part 1 - Handle Instruction Data

Lesson 2

Create a Basic Program, Part 2 - State Management

Lesson 3

Create a Basic Program, Part 3 - Basic Security and Validation

Lesson 4

Module 4

Intermediate Solana Program Development

Local Program Development

Lesson 1

Program Derived Addresses

Lesson 2

Cross Program Invocations

Lesson 3

Program Testing - COMING SOON

Lesson 4

Module 5

Anchor Program Development

Intro to Anchor development

Lesson 1

Intro to client-side Anchor development

Lesson 2

Anchor PDAs and accounts

Lesson 3

Anchor CPIs and errors

Lesson 4

Module 6

Beyond the Basics

Environment variables in Solana programs

Lesson 1

Solana Pay

Lesson 2

Versioned transactions and lookup tables

Lesson 3

Rust procedural macros

Lesson 4

Module 7

Solana Program Security

How to approach the Program Security module

Lesson 1

Signer authorization

Lesson 2

Owner checks

Lesson 3

Account data matching

Lesson 4

Reinitialization attacks

Lesson 5

Duplicate mutable accounts

Lesson 6

Type cosplay

Lesson 7

Arbitrary CPIs

Lesson 8

Bump seed canonicalization

Lesson 9

Closing accounts and revival attacks

Lesson 10

PDA sharing

Lesson 11