Learning Blockchain, Crypto, and Solana

Understanding Solana benefits from an understanding of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in general. Here are resources to help!

a16z Crypto Startup School

Many videos on learning Crypto in general, plus extensive articles/readings further down on the page.

Anatoly wrote up a bunch of articles about Solana's technology innovations. Very useful to get an overview of what those technologies are.

Writing smart contracts (programs) is a core concept of Solana. This page shows how to setup and write a program that runs on Solana.

This README is specific to a hackathon, but it does contain a bunch of resources/links for getting started with Solana.

The Solana docs themselves are a good resource to learn about Solana. Presented more as a reference.

To quote the cookbook directly:

The Solana Cookbook is a developer resource that provides the essential concepts and recipes for building applications on Solana.

Quoted from the repo itself:

A curated list for getting up to speed on crypto and decentralized networks.