Day 1: Generated my first keypair on the CLI and airdropped devnet SOL to it. Seeing Balance: 5 SOL hit different when you know you own that address cryptographically — no company in between.
Day 2: Built a persistent wallet that saves to wallet.json and reads balance on every run. Simple script, but it made the keypair concept click in a way docs never could.
Day 3: Checked balances via the Solana CLI. The smallest unit is named after solana's co-founder, which is a nice detail.
Day 4: Built a React app that detects browser wallets and connects to Phantom. Seeing my own wallet address render live on localhost felt like the Web2 → Web3 bridge finally made sense.
Top comments (1)
What is your experience with the Phantom extension so far? Did you install others to compare also 🤔