Two Weeks of Solana, here a look into my week !
I’m now 14 days into #100DaysOfSolana, and looking back at the first two weeks, I realize how much my understanding of Solana has changed.
When I started, I mostly thought of a wallet as a place where you keep cryptocurrency. Now I understand that a wallet is built around a cryptographic keypair—the public key represents your on-chain identity, while the private key proves ownership and the part of what to share and what I can do with my keys and info.
One of the biggest surprises for me was how much blockchain data is publicly accessible. Working with Solana's RPC calls made the idea of a “public database” feel real. you know at first I was like what the hell if everyone can know about me from my keypair something is wrongh here, but soom realised But then I realized that my public key isn't my secret. It's more like my public identity on the blockchain. The thing that actually proves ownership is my private key, and that's the part that must never be shared.
That was probably one of the biggest mindset shifts for me during these first two weeks.
soon I could query balances, accounts, and transaction history directly instead of going through a private backend like I normally would in Web2.
The comparison between traditional databases and Solana accounts also helped things click. Tables and rows became accounts, SQL queries became RPC calls, and writes happen through signed transactions.
But I'm definitely not at the point where everything makes sense yet. 😅 I’m still trying to understand the deeper relationship between accounts, programs, transactions, and instructions.
And honestly, that's what makes me excited for the next few weeks.
I started this challenge trying to understand Solana.
well I know I ahve slipped through few days first it was my healtha nd mood swings then I took some days off to blow off the steam and the part of how much I need that :) so no regrets there 😙
Now I'm gonna complete this journey & understand how to think in Solana, web 3, blockchain.
87 days to go! 🚀
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