Exploring Program Derive Addresses (PDA's) with Solana, Anchor and React

Note: As of the time of this writing (Monday, December 13, 2021), Solana’s testnet environment (faucet/airdrop) seems to be having issues. Please select the devnet on the selector (or just don’t change it, since is the default value). Remember to change your wallet to point to the devnet network. Note: all the code for this post can be found here. There’s a demo here showcasing the concepts in this post....

December 13, 2021 · 7 min · 1411 words · Fernando Mendez

Building a simple on-chain point of sale with Solana, Anchor and React

Note: All the code for this post can be found this github repo. A few days ago, I started playing with the Solana blockchain. I was initially interested because it was built on rust (I freaking love rust!). To explore it, I decided to build a basic point of sales (POS) for event tickets. I initially started reading the code on the Solana Program Library and experimenting but decided to go with Anchor just get started building something more quickly....

November 26, 2021 · 8 min · 1588 words · Fernando Mendez