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Solana Blockchain Mastery: Free Beginner to Advanced Course

Solana

Solana is a fast, cheap, and scalable Layer 1 blockchain, gaining rapid growth in the web3 ecosystem. It underpins financial systems, NFT trading, and play-to-earn games. It is fast, cheap, and a fast growing ecosystem within Web3.

Get started learning how to develop on the Solana blockchain in this course. Come with basic skills in Javascript, and we will help you dive in!

Scott Meyer is an entrepreneur, educator, writer and dad who works as the VP of Learning at Metacrafters. He is a leading practitioner at the intersection of education and web3 - known as ed3. His blog and podcast, ed3.gg, explores the future of education and the builders creating this future. As the Secretary of the IEEE Working Group on Learning Employment Records, he is helping to write the standards for the Ed3 future. He is helping Metacrafters bring the future of education to its students.

Scott

Chris is a Metacrafters Peer Mentor helping to teach the next generation of web3 developers.

Chris

Peer Mentor

Isabel Paz Reyes Sieh is a passionate teacher, founder, and a national brand in the Philippines. She started coding at 10 years old online from her home in Antipolo City, Philippines and founded Girls Who Code at age 13 to encourage young girls to start learning code. Well-known as a positive, encouraging instructor, she is now a student at Stanford who works as a teacher assistant in the Computer Science Department.

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Web3 is a new epoch of the Internet. Now, users can own their data, bring digital items across platforms, and earn cryptocurrency regardless of where they live.

Developers are needed to build this future. This could be you.

Web3 developers often use the Solana blockchain when they build because it is fast, cheap, and popular. It is a perfect choice for financial tools, NFTs, games, and more.

In this module, we will introduce you to the Solana blockchain. No technical background required. We will share examples of projects using Solana and an overview of the technology that makes it unique. Upon completing this introductory module, you will be ready to learn to build on Solana in the following modules.
 
The future is here. You can build it.

Welcome to Metacrafters

Connecting with the Community

What is Web3?

Understanding the Blockchain

Coordinating Across the Blockchain

Web3 Wallets

Hashing on the Blockchain

A Comprehensive Understanding

Challenge

Getting Started with Web3 and the Blockchain

What to Expect

Benefits of the Solana Ecosystem

Solana's Proof of History Technology

The Solana Ecosystem

Analyzing Solana Tokens and Projects

Finding Your Solana

Measuring Your Learning

Why Solana

Getting to Know Solana

Solana powers financial systems, blockchain games, and NFT marketplaces. While it has power and speed, you can get started with basic javascript knowledge.

In this module, you will start building on Solana using Javascript. You will first connect to Solana, make a simple transaction, connect to a wallet, and finally airdrop SOL. In the end, you will have created and deployed your first decentralized application, or Dapp.

We will provide you all of the code, then walk through it with you. After learning how the code works, you will be ready to take action. We’ll share a challenge that you will build and share.

This is a perfect way to get started, and we’re here to help. So let’s jump in!

Introduction to Keypairs and Airdrops

Experience Check

What You'll Need

Key Concepts

Generate a Keypair

Knowledge Check

View Your Wallet Balance

Airdrop SOL in Your Wallet

What You'll Need - Challenge

Keypairs and Airdrops

Introduction

What are Transactions

What You'll Need - Code

To and From Wallets

Transferring SOL

Tracking Wallet Balance

Explore Transactions and Fees

Experience Check (NPS)

Transactions and Fees

Introduction to Phantom Wallets

Setting Up Your React App

Introducing Node Providers

Defining Your Interface

State Variables

Connect Wallet

Deploy Your First Solana Program

Introduction to Programs

Program Interaction Workflow

What You Need

Fill in the Code

Deploy Hello World Rust Program

Say Hello

Run the Code

Deploy a Hello World Program

Getting Started with Solana Using Javascript

Tokens are the engine fueling your Solana programs.

In this module, you will learn about a variety of tokens and how to mint and work with fungible tokens, like SPL tokens. You will use all this knowledge to eventually create your own cryptocurrency.

Next you'll dive deeper into fungible tokens, specifically NFTs. You'll learn to mint your own NFTs using Metaplex.

The big finale is combining your new skills to have users pay you to mint your NFTs.

Getting Started with Tokens

History of Tokens

SPL Tokens

NFTs

Intro to Tokens and NFTs

Uncovering Solana's Superpowers

Proof of History

Transactions

Accounts

Solana Programming Model

Superpowers of the Solana Blockchain

Understanding Tokens

Token Programs for Non-fungible and Fungible Tokens

SPL Tokens in Action

Associated Token Account Program

Let's Set Up Your Machine

Mint and Token Accounts

Transferring Tokens

Create and Transfer Your Own Cryptocurrency

Time to Build

How We'll Build

Set Up Your Machine

Step 1 - Set Up the Config File

Step 2 - Metadata

Final Steps - Verify and Upload, Deploy, and Mint with the CLI

Mint an NFT

Minting Tokens and NFTs

Embark on your Solana blockchain journey! Learn blockchain basics, Solana fundamentals, leverage JavaScript for transactions, and token/NFT minting. Enroll now!

Solana Foundations: Learn to Earn Beginner Course

SOL PROOF: Beginner Course

Welcome to the Intermediate Solana course! 

This course will focus on bringing you up to speed on developing Smart Contracts (or Programs) on Solana using Rust first, and then the Anchor framework. Throughout this course we will build multiple programs from scratch and thoroughly discuss all the components that make a Solana program tick. 

We will cover Anchor specific primitives, testing your programs, program security, and of course the core components of Solana’s unique programming model (Program Derived Addresses, Cross Program Invocations, the Solana runtime, etc). 

After completing this course, you will have a foundation and the skills necessary to build just about anything you’d like on Solana! Don’t hesitate to join one of Solana’s many hackathons, build a new tool for the ecosystem, or apply to some bounties/grants.


Gyana Lakshmi is a skilled coder, YouTuber, teacher and founder. She works with leading develops on the Solana blockchain as a member of SuperTeam DAO. She helped found the Phoenix Guild - TPG to help women in tech and non-tech roles empower themselves with web3. With the Guild she teaches workshops around the world to onboard new developers to web3. She works as a subject matter expert with Metacrafters to develop Solidity and Solana currículum.

Gyana

James has over twenty-five years of experience as both a business leader and a consultant working with senior executive teams in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. After a successful career of C-level corporate roles in finance, e-commerce and marketing, in 2016 (for his 50th birthday) he taught himself how to code. He founded Kurkuma in 2017 and currently provides Web3 + iOS Software Development, Cryptocurrency Trading Coaching and Marketing/Operations Consulting services.

James 

Ivan is the lead content creator for the intermediate Solana course here at Metacrafters. He got into Solana development a little over a year ago and has been head down building in the space ever since. Since first diving into Solana development, he had the opportunity to contribute to open source developer tooling/content, participate in multiple hackathons, and attend HackerHouses where he had the chance to meet other devs IRL. He was also a core contributor to the Intro to Solana course hosted at https://soldev.app/course and Buildspace’s Solana Core course. His hope is that in completing this course, you too can become an integral member of the Solana developer ecosystem and help make chewing glass more like chewing gum for those that come after you!


Ivan

With this module, you will have the power to launch your own Solana program. The world is waiting for you!

To launch your program, you will learn the foundations of Rust. Rust has been voted as the most loved programming language by developers. Large companies like Dropbox, Microsoft and Facebook have used it in their programming.

In the web3 world, protocols like Solana, NEAR and Polkadot have used Rust to build their smart contracts that interact with the blockchain.

There is a learning curve to Rust. That's why this module will introduce key concepts and then help you get practice building with it. By mastering Rust, you will join an elite group of coders, building the future of the Solana blockchain.

A Most Beloved Language

Installing Rust for Local Development

Installing Cargo for Local Development

Setting the Stage

Variables and Their Scope

Data Types in Rust

Compound Data Types

Functions in Rust

Control Flow in Rust

Introduction to Ownership

Basics of Rust

Getting Setup

Referencing and Borrowing

Dangling References

Slices

Structs

Pattern Matching

Rust Concepts - Referencing and Borrowing

Introduction to Escrow Contracts

Escrow Contract Accounts

Solana Contract Repository

Entrypoint and State Files

Instructions

Processor Code

Escrow Contracts

Rust for Solana

Solana programs written in Native Rust (without Anchor) have a level of complexity that makes learning Solana development very difficult. Hence the phrase “chewing glass”. Well, others chewed glass so that you don’t have to and one result of that glass chewing is Anchor.

Anchor is a framework for quickly building secure Solana programs.

Where We’re Headed

Program Structure

Introducing declare_id!()

Program Module

Accounts Struct

Let’s Install

Solana Security and Anchor

Windows Anchor Installation

Mac Anchor Installation

Hello World

Reflection

Installation and Setup

Where We're Headed

Getting Started with Anchor

Accounts Types

Constraints

Context Object

Anchor Demo

Anchor Basics

Introduction to Anchor Programs

Introducing @project-serum/anchor

Anchor Program Demo

Interacting with Anchor Programs

Introduction to Anchor

PDAs are Program Derived Addresses, a core tenet of Solana program development and are used in almost all non-trivial programs. PDAs are an essential building block for developing programs on Solana. With PDAs, programs can sign for accounts while guaranteeing no external user can also generate a valid signature for the same account. In addition to signing for accounts, certain programs can also modify accounts held at their PDAs.

ED25519 Elliptic Curve

Seeds

PDA Practice

Intro to PDAs 

Concept of Mapping from pubkey to PDAs using seeds

Associated Token Accounts

Verifying PDAs

Practice with Seeds

Using PDAs

CPI Concepts

How to make a CPI

CPI Examples

CPI Demo

Intro to CPIs 

Native Rust

Anchor

Demo

CPIs with PDAs

Anchor Programs

Welcome to the SPL Token Program!

Solana has a native token program that defines what all fungible, non-fungible, and semi-fungible tokens are in the Solana ecosystem. The token program has many instructions on it that you can invoke to perform many different actions with SPL tokens.

Burning Tokens

Authority Delegation

Freezing Token Accounts

WSOL

Closing Token Accounts

Demo - Part 1

Demo - Part 2

SPL Token Program

Metaplex

Cardinal

Misc

NFTs, Metaplex Standard, Cardinal Labs

Tokens on Anchor

Elevate your Solana skills with our intermediate course. Explore Rust programming, the Anchor Framework, building with PDA/CPI, and NFTs w/Metaplex. Enroll now!

Solana Unleashed: Learn to Earn Intermediate Course

SOL PROOF: Intermediate Course

Much of the learning out there is about Solana concepts, but not really about the application of those concepts into real-world projects. This course will take you through the process of building fully working applications. You’ll work on 3 different projects, each increasing in difficulty. 

First, starting off with an escrow trust fund type project, then moving into an entire social media platform, and finally building a fully-functioning liquidity pool. The goal is to give you an entire portfolio of micro-projects that you can show off to employers and as well as an entire process of taking a project spec and turning it into a real world application. 

Let’s get started!

Current CTO of Hydra Labs NFT launchpad and Utility provider. Previous works include: launching a multi-million dollar NFT project Trippin Ape Tribe, Lead engineer on Sea Shanties Liquidity Pool and Yield Farm financial products, Gamified staking creator and engineer for Jikan/Dahlys, and ex-lead Solana developer at OpenSea. In college, I started my coding journey through online tutorials and eventually jumped into the web2 world via a coding boot camp. I spent most of my time in web2 and front-end development until the defi summer of 2020 when I got heavily into blockchain engineering through hackathons on Ethereum and eventually Solana! Instantly fell in love with the Solana ecosystem, its community, and all the different projects here. I hope to bring as many developers into the space as possible!

Gage

The final step in your Solana journey is building. This module helps you get started with a Solana Escrow Program.

You will learn the process of conducting research, identifying the data structure, validating the data, and creating the data logic.

At the end you will have a functioning program to show off to employers. Plus, Gage will share tips on how to create a portfolio that stands out and what to expect in future employer interviews.

Introduction to Diamond Hands

Diamond Hands Research

Diamond Hands Structures

Build a Solana Escrow Program

Unleash the full potential of Solana! Dive into creating escrow programs, building social media platforms, and constructing liquidity pools. Enroll now!

Solana Mastery: Advanced Learn to Earn Course

SOL PROOF: Advanced Course

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