Solana: A High-Performance Blockchain, From Architecture to Programs
Shriira Press
A comprehensive, self-contained, and balanced guide to Solana — the Layer 1 blockchain designed for speed: tens of thousands of transactions per se…
Welcome to Solana: A High-Performance Blockchain, From Architecture to Programs.
A comprehensive, self-contained, and balanced guide to Solana — the Layer 1 blockchain designed for speed: tens of thousands of transactions per second, sub-second block times, and fees of fractions of a cent. Where the Blockchain book explains the general concepts (hashing, consensus, smart contracts), this book goes deep on how Solana achieves its performance and what it trades away to get it. You'll learn Solana's signature innovations — Proof of History (a cryptographic clock), Sealevel (parallel transaction execution), Tower BFT consensus, and the rest of the performance stack — its distinctive account model, how programs (smart contracts) work, how to develop on it with Rust and Anchor, the SPL token ecosystem, and — crucially — an honest account of its real weaknesses: network outages, validator centralization, and the security pitfalls unique to its model.
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