virtual-solana-incubator

Start with Track A, the 6-week beginner path covering Rust ownership, borrowing, and error handling before touching Solana. It progresses through the account model, Anchor counter programs, PDAs, CPIs, and ends with devnet deployment and testing.

Track B maps Solidity concepts to Solana equivalents over 6 days: contract storage becomes PDA accounts, msg.sender becomes Signer types, and ERC-20 calls become CPIs to the SPL Token program. The key shift is that all data lives in explicitly passed accounts rather than internal contract storage.

A Program Derived Address is a deterministic off-curve address derived from seeds and a program ID, with no private key. Use PDAs for per-user vaults, global config singletons, program-owned token accounts, and as signers for CPIs via invoke_signed.

Both. Tracks A and B teach Anchor with its constraint macros and account validation, while Track C Module 5 covers rewriting Anchor programs as native programs with raw Borsh serialization for lower compute usage.

Track C covers SVM internals and Sealevel parallel execution, compute unit optimization with zero-copy, security patterns like re-initialization attacks and overflow, advanced CPIs with Jupiter and Orca, and custom serialization without Anchor.

After completing your assigned track's exercises, the skill hands off to project scaffolding and guided MVP building skills. It explicitly avoids dumping the full curriculum and graduates you once you demonstrate understanding through reviewed exercises.