Solana Explained

About this book

Solana Explained is a practical guide to how the network actually works, built around one mental model: state lives in accounts, programs hold the logic, and declaring what a transaction touches is what makes parallel execution possible. It walks through Proof of History as a cryptographic clock, how staking and validator incentives secure the ledger, how compute units and priority fees decide what gets included, and the SPL token layer behind stablecoins, NFTs, and real-world assets. A clear foundation for anyone who wants to reason about Solana rather than memorize it.