My Learning Journey: Exploring Solana Accounts and the Explorer
I have been participating in the 100 Days of Solana program, and this week’s challenges (Day 25 and 26) have been a major "aha!" moment for me regarding how the Solana blockchain actually works under the hood.
What I Learned
1. Demystifying Solana Accounts (Day 25)
I finally realized that in Solana, everything is an account! Whether it is a wallet, a program, or raw system data, they all follow the same underlying account model. Using the Solana CLI and Explorer to inspect the owner, executable status, and data fields helped me move past treating wallets as just "my balance" and start seeing them as data structures on-chain.
2. Visualizing Activity with Solana Explorer (Day 26)
After spending so much time in the terminal, it was incredibly helpful to look at devnet and mainnet activity through the Solana Explorer. Seeing real-time transactions and identifying how programs interact with the network made the concepts I’ve been reading about feel much more tangible.
If you are just starting your Solana journey, don’t skip the CLI exercises! They provide the necessary context to understand what is actually happening when you interact with the network.
I am excited to keep building through the next Epoch!
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