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1. Lecture - Introduction to Solana and Blockchain

To make the most of our first lecture, please set up your development environment in advance.

Table of Contents

• Dev Setup
• Solana Handbook
• Command cheatsheet
  • Solana CLI
  • Anchor

Dev Setup

Tip

Checkout Manual Setup section for step by step guide.

Setup	Version	Installation	Note
WSL	2.0	Guide	Highly recomended
Rust	1.86.0	Guide
Solana	2.2.12	Guide
Anchor	0.31.1	Guide
VS Code		Guide	Or any other favorite IDE
Rust Analyzer		Guide	Highly recommended
Docker		Guide	To use pre-configured docker image

Solana Handbook

This is the main learning material for the first lecture. It is our introductory material to blockchain and Solana. Getting comfortable with it will help you pass the first task!

Solana Handbook

Command cheatsheet

Solana CLI

• Get current config

  solana config get

• Set CLI config url to localhost cluster

  solana config set --url localhost # useful for local development
  solana config set -u l # shorter option, l stands for localhost

  solana config set --url devnet # useful for devnet testing
  solana config set -u d # shorter option, d stands for devnet

  More at Clusters and Public RPC Endpoints

• Create CLI Keypair

  solana-keygen new -o test.json

• Airdrop

  [!NOTE] Airdrop only works on devnet, testnet and localhost.

  solana airdrop 5

  [!TIP] You can also optionally specify the destination address of the airdrop.

  solana airdrop 5 <YOUR_PUBKEY>

  [!TIP] You can also use the Solana Faucet to get some SOL.

• Get PubKey from Keypair

  solana-keygen pubkey ~/my-solana-wallet/my-keypair.json

• Run Solana test validator

  [!NOTE] In most cases you DO NOT need to start the local validator by yourself. Down below you can find the Anchor commands which will handle everything for you.

  solana-test-validator

• Get logs from the Solana validator

  solana logs

Anchor

• Initialize new project

  anchor init <your_project_name>

• Build the project

  anchor build

• Test the project (preferred)

  anchor test

• Test the project (less preferred)

  In a separate terminal tab, call:

  solana-test-validator

  Within the anchor project directory:

  • Build the project

    anchor build

  • Run tests without starting the local validator (started it manually in the step above)

    anchor test --skip-local-validator

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