🚀 Solana Token & dApp Learning Notes

Welcome to my personal learning repository focused on building tokens and decentralized applications (dApps) on the Solana blockchain.

This repo documents everything I'm learning — from the basics of Solana to writing and deploying smart contracts, creating tokens, and building frontend dApps that interact with the blockchain.

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📚 Table of Contents

• 🔰 Introduction
• 🌐 What is a dApp?
• ⚙️ Solana Environment Setup
• 📜 Writing Smart Contracts (Programs)
• 💸 Creating a Solana Token
• 🖥️ Building a Frontend dApp
• 📦 Tools & Libraries Used
• 📎 Resources

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🔰 Introduction

Solana is a high-performance blockchain supporting fast transactions and low fees. It's ideal for building scalable decentralized applications (dApps) and DeFi platforms.

In this project, I document:

• How Solana works under the hood.
• Steps to create your own token on Solana.
• How to build and deploy smart contracts (called "Programs" in Solana).
• Building a full-stack dApp that interacts with those programs.

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🌐 What is a dApp?

A dApp (Decentralized Application) is:

• An application that runs on a blockchain network.
• Backend logic lives in smart contracts.
• Frontend can be traditional (React/Next.js), but it communicates with the blockchain.

In Solana, smart contracts are called Programs, written using Rust or Anchor framework.

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⚙️ Solana Environment Setup

To get started with Solana development:

# Install Solana CLI
sh -c "$(curl -sSfL https://release.solana.com/stable/install)"

# Check version
solana --version

# Install Anchor framework (recommended)
npm install -g @coral-xyz/anchor-cli