Solana Academy
Free lessons in plain language. Start with Basics, take the quiz at the end of each lesson, and come back any time: your progress is saved in this browser.
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- 22
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- ~2.9 h
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Basics
What Solana is, wallets, funding, tokens and your first swap.
What Solana is
A fast public blockchain where transactions cost a fraction of a cent. Here's what that means and why DeFi lives here.
Get a wallet and keep it safe
Your wallet holds the keys to your funds. Pick one, back it up properly, and split savings from daily use.
Fund your wallet
Three ways to get money onto Solana, how to avoid the classic wrong-network mistake, and why you need a little SOL.
Tokens, accounts and mint addresses
How tokens actually live in your wallet, why names lie but mint addresses don't, and the red flags to check before you buy.
Your first swap
How aggregators find the best price, what slippage and price impact mean, and how to avoid getting sandwiched.
Earning
Staking, lending, liquidity, stablecoins, fixed yield and real-world assets.
Staking and liquid staking
How staking rewards work on Solana, why LSTs grow in value instead of paying out, and how to choose between them.
Lending and borrowing
How money markets set rates, what LTV and liquidation really mean, and how to borrow without getting wrecked.
Leverage and looping
How Multiply vaults turn 5% into 15%, the math behind it, and the three ways a loop can go wrong.
Providing liquidity
How AMM pools price trades, why concentrated liquidity earns more and loses more, and what impermanent loss really is.
Stablecoins and yield-bearing dollars
USDC, USDT, PYUSD and the newer dollars that pay yield. What backs each one and what can break the peg.
Fixed yield with PT and YT
How Exponent splits a yield-bearing token into a bond-like PT and a yield-hungry YT, and when each makes sense.
Real-world assets on Solana
Tokenized treasuries, stocks, reinsurance and payment credit. What you actually own and the risks that live off-chain.
Trading
Perps, order books, memecoins and how airdrops really work.
Perpetual futures
Longs, shorts, leverage, funding and liquidation price, plus the difference between pool perps and order-book perps on Solana.
Order books, AMMs and aggregators
Why Solana can run fully onchain order books, how prop AMMs work, and how aggregators decide where your trade goes.
Memecoins and launchpads
How bonding curves work, what happens at graduation, and the checks that filter out most rugs.
Airdrops and points programs
How points turn into tokens, why sybil farming gets slashed, and how to farm without losing more than you earn.
Safety
Protect your wallet and judge any protocol's risk.
Security: keep your wallet safe
The scams that actually drain Solana wallets, how each one works, and the habits that stop them.
How to judge a protocol's risk
A practical framework to size up any Solana app in ten minutes: contracts, keys, oracles, liquidity, team and track record.
Under the hood
How Solana works: accounts, consensus, Alpenglow, MEV and validators.
How Solana works
Accounts, programs, parallel execution, leaders and local fee markets. The architecture that makes 200ms blocks possible.
Alpenglow: Solana's new consensus
What changes on October 21, 2026, when Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT and finality drops from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds.
MEV and Jito
What maximal extractable value is, how Jito bundles and tips work, what BAM changes, and how to keep your trades from being sandwiched.
Validators and SOL economics
How validators earn, what commission means for your stake, why client diversity matters, and where SOL inflation is heading.
