Solana guide library
Blockchain and Solana basics
Start with the record a blockchain keeps. Then follow Solana from its network and native asset to the public addresses you can inspect. You can read the first two guides before installing a wallet.
Understand the network
- How a blockchain works
Follow a payment from keys and signatures to execution and consensus. Learn how balances, blocks and shared rules fit together on Solana.
- What is Solana?
Understand SOL, wallets, validators and applications through a practical journey from receiving a token to using it in the Solana ecosystem.
- Solana and Ethereum
Compare account models, transaction validity, fees, applications and crosschain routes. Use the comparison to plan a task rather than rank headline benchmarks.
Recognise assets and accounts
- SOL, tokens and stablecoins
Understand token issuance, supply, decimals and stablecoin backing. Follow a USDC transfer and separate onchain ownership from issuer redemption.
- Addresses, signatures and mints
Learn what each Solana identifier represents, where to find it and which one to use for payments, token verification and transaction lookup.
- SOL supply and inflation
Distinguish SOL issuance, circulating supply, staking rewards and fee burning. Read supply changes without treating inflation as a validator APY.
- Account rent and refunds
Understand the SOL reserved for account storage, calculate the current minimum and distinguish account closure from withdrawing surplus lamports.