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16 modules. One real product. Every command narrated. Every error explained. Master Solana's account model, Anchor framework, Token-2022 with 17 extensions, PDAs, CPI, and the Alpenglow consensus horizon — while building a fully-extensioned SPL launch on mainnet-fork.

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17Token-2022 Extensions
1Real Project
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Why Solana

Why practitioners choose Solana

Accounts everywhere

Solana inverts EVM's "contract-owns-storage" model. State lives in accounts owned by programs, and every transaction declares its account dependencies up front — that's how the scheduler parallelizes execution at 50,000+ TPS.

Token-2022 with extensions

Beyond ERC-20: opt-in mints with transfer hooks, confidential transfers (ZK), metadata pointers, interest-bearing supply, transfer fees, pausable, scaled UI amounts — 17 extensions, composable per-mint, no Metaplex required.

Anchor v1.0 framework

Anchor v1.0.2 (Solana Foundation fork) shipped in May 2026 — cleaner macros, type-safe accounts, IDL-first development. The framework most Solana programs deploy with.

Alpenglow on the horizon

SIMD-0326 Alpenglow proposes replacing Proof-of-History + TowerBFT with Votor — two-round voting, fast/slow finalization, Validator Admission Tickets. The biggest Solana protocol upgrade of 2026 is being discussed right now.


Curriculum

Every module builds toward one real product

You don't do isolated exercises. From Module 00 to Module 15, you build a fully-extensioned Token-2022 SPL on Solana mainnet-fork — with on-chain metadata, transfer fees, transfer hooks for compliance, and confidential transfers. By the end, you ship a portfolio project and the lore to back it up.

00
Environment Setup
Solana CLI, Rust toolchain, Anchor v1.0.2, test validator. Get your workbench wobble-free.
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25 min
01
The Solana Mental Model
Accounts everywhere, owners, lamports vs SOL, PoH+TowerBFT, the Alpenglow horizon.
FREE
30 min
02
Run Your Local Validator
solana-test-validator, RPC endpoint, airdrops, ledger directory.
25 min
03
Keypairs & Wallets
ed25519 keys, mnemonic seeds, filesystem vs hardware wallets, solana-keygen.
30 min
04
Account State Model
Lamports, rent-exempt minimum, account size, owner program, createAccount.
30 min
05
Transactions, Fees, Compute Units
Base fee, priority fee (CU price × CU consumed), ComputeBudget instructions, retry logic.
30 min
06
Solana Programs (Native)
BPF target, Rust program structure, no_std, processor entry, building.
35 min
07
PDAs — Program-Derived Addresses
Seeds, canonical bump, find_program_address, deterministic discovery.
35 min
08
SPL Token-2022 Basics
Token-2022 v11.0.0 program, mint, token account, transfer, decimals.
35 min
09
Cross-Program Invocation (CPI)
CPI to System + Token-2022, invoke_signed, account info passing.
35 min
10
Token-2022 Extensions
transfer_fee, metadata_pointer, token_metadata, transfer_hook, ExtraAccountMetaList.
40 min
11
Escrow Patterns
Time-locked, hash-locked, account-locked escrow; PDA-based custody.
35 min
12
Oracles
Pyth, Switchboard, price aggregation, staleness checks.
30 min
13
Stake, Vote, and the Validator Set
Stake delegation, vote accounts, epoch boundaries, slashing posture.
30 min
14
Consensus Deep-Dive: PoH+TowerBFT & Alpenglow
PoH ticks, vote chains, 2/3 finality, SIMD-0326 Alpenglow upgrade direction.
30 min
15
Production Keys & Mainnet Deployment
Mainnet RPC providers, priority fee tuning, key management, safety checklist.
35 min

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