Solana Development Roadmap
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What is the critical path to building valuable products and services on Solana?
Start with Solana AI Hackathon projects for inspiration then backcast to figure out what, why and how.
Context
Roles
Complimentary roles to building a maximally effective business engineering team.
- Product Engineer: Customer Interface
- Onchain Services: Business Logic
- Protocol Engineer: Trilemma Optimization
Critical Path
Solana Developers Bootcamp 2024
npx create-solana-dapp
Fundamentals
Essential concepts for working with Solana.
- Keypairs
- Transactions
- Wallets
- Solana CLI
- RPC Interaction
Developer Environment:
Onchain Essentials
Knowledge of Rust and Solana, covering:
- GNU/Linux setup
- Rust env + syntax
- State management
- PDAs (Program Derived Addresses)
- CPIs (Cross Program Invocations)
- Anchor
- IDLs
- Oracles
- Security
Product Engineer
Typescript Web Development but interface with Solana Blockchain and Wallets.
- Interaction Model (wallet-client-rpc-program)
- Solana web3.js
- Solana Program library
- SPL-token CLI
- Token extensions
- Intro to AI
NFT Apps
- RPC APIs - NFTs
- candy-machine
- sugar-CLI
- ShdwDrive
- Compression
DeFi Apps
- Solana web3.js
- RPC APIs - Tokens
- Oracles
- Automated Market Makers
- Openbook
Not Essential
Unless working on Protocol Engineering.
- Proof of History
- Solana's consensus mechanism
- Tower BFT
- Pipelining
- Cloudbreak
- Gulfstream
- Cryptography
- Validator management
Learning Resources
- Solana Developers
- EVM to SVM Complete Guide
- Roadmaps
- YouTube
Example Apps
From simple to more complex.