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I'll be honest before I started, I think I expected blockchain data to feel exotic. Like there'd be some kind of ceremony to accessing it. What I got instead was a JSON RPC endpoint. You call it, it talks back. That was the first surprise: how boring the infrastructure felt in the best possible way. It's just a database you can ask questions to. The "public ledger" framing stopped being an abstrac
I'm doing the 100 Days of Solana challenge by MLH, and Week 2 just changed how I think about blockchain data entirely. Week 1 was about identity — generating keypairs, understanding wallets, getting devnet SOL. That part felt familiar, like setting up a dev environment. Week 2 was different. Week 2 was about reading the chain — and that's where the mental model shift actually happened. I expected
I’ve been exploring Solana for the past few days and a few things stood out pretty quickly No traditional database everything revolves around accounts The biggest shift so far has been adjusting to the accounts model. Coming from a typical backend mindset it forces you to think differently about how data is stored who owns it and how state changes over time I also built a small dashboard in the
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 I’m used to. It wasn’t as far off as I thought. What I’ve Done So Far Generated a keypair + airdropped devnet SOL Created a wallet and checked balance programmatically Understood SOL vs lamports Connected a browser wallet Read on-chain data (accounts,
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed
I've officially wrapped up the second week of my Solana deep dive. This week was all about moving from the "private" silos of Web2 databases to the "public" transparency of Blockchain and Solana accounts. Here are my key takeaways on how Solana handles data: 1. The Anatomy of an Account Unlike a row in a SQL database, every Solana account contains five specific fields: Lamports: The SOL balance (
Day 13 of 100 Days of Solana — Reflecting on Reading On-Chain Data When I started this challenge two weeks ago with Major League Hacking(MLH), I thought blockchain was just a ledger with transactions. I was wrong—and that realization is worth writing about. Before I touched any code, I imagined blockchain data like this: Transactions sit in a database somewhere I'd need special permission to read