Solana College

intermediate · ~4 hours

Builder & Developer Track

A focused engineering path through Solana's programming model — accounts, programs, PDAs, transactions, instructions, CPIs and the SPL Token program — to prepare you to build real applications.

Lessons in this path

  1. 01

    Solana accounts explained

    Everything on Solana is an account. Here's the model that ties it all together.

  2. 02

    Programs explained

    Programs are stateless. Their state lives in accounts. That changes everything.

  3. 03

    PDAs explained

    Program Derived Addresses — the deterministic accounts a program controls.

  4. 04

    Transactions and instructions

    Instructions compose into transactions. Transactions are atomic.

  5. 05

    Cross-program invocations (CPIs)

    How one program calls another — and why composability is Solana's superpower.

  6. 06

    Token Program basics

    The SPL Token program is the universal token standard on Solana.

  7. 07

    Token-2022 basics

    Token Extensions add transfer hooks, fees, confidential transfers and more.

  8. 08

    Solana tooling overview

    The CLI, Anchor, web3.js and the rest of the stack at a glance.

  9. 09

    Solana Cookbook — guide map

    A curated map of recipes every Solana builder should know.

  10. 010

    Beginner path for building on Solana

    A concrete sequence to go from zero to your first deployed program.