Phase 3 - Intro to Solana Web3 Development

In this phase the focus will be on understanding basic concepts in solana development and getting familiar with some of the most frequently used packages.

Note-

• We will be using DEVNET throughout this guide.
• If you are not able to access any of the links, try using an incognito window.

1-

Read upon and understand about the account structure of solana blockchain. Also explore the solana cookbook, it provides a lot of info which you will find handy.

2-

Using CLI perform the following-

• Create a file wallet.
• Airdrop yourself Sol.
• Create a spl-token.
• Create associated-token-account for the token you created.
• Transfer some sol and token to a second wallet.

Try answering the following questions

• Difference between public and private key.
• What is a transaction, instruction in solana and how are they related?
• How does ATA’s differ from token accounts?

3-

For this week the task is to create a nodejs project which is to be submitted. In the project create a new transaction. For the project make use of keypair from a file wallet you have made.

4-

Add instructions to perform the following to the transaction you created-

• Send 0.1 sol to the given wallet.
• Create ATA for any one token you have created for this wallet.
• Transfer 0.1 of that token to the wallet.

Wallet : HtUaVzWiSNrrY2NSVKroE3883vnBfn8SMrLM2UxA2vDy