✳ STONKBUILDER LEARNING PASSPORT

INDEPENDENT SOLANA EDUCATION · ALWAYS FREE

Learn Solana,
step by step.

A practical route from your very first Solana transaction to reviewing a production-ready design. Free lessons, practice, exams, and web certificates; optional NFT minting is not open yet.

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CURIOSITY → KNOWLEDGE → CRAFT
27 lessons · 3 levels
Learn openly. No mint required.

New to crypto? Begin with crypto basics, explore the Solana beginner guides, or try a no-money practice exercise before choosing a course.

ONE FOUNDATION · A COMPLETE PROGRESSION

Start with the fundamentals.
Grow into systems thinking.

Begin with Solana Foundations, continue to Solana Builder, and then advance to Solana Architect. Security is developed throughout the journey.

A three-level roadmap shows every course lesson in numbered order.
Follow each level in order. The Builder path follows Solana’s core concepts: accounts and programs, instructions and transactions, then PDAs and cross-program calls ↗. All course reading is open; credentials are optional.
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Solana Foundations 8 lessons

  1. Solana, SOL, and a shared ledger
  2. Wallets, keys, and safe signing
  3. Networks and transaction explorers
  4. Accounts, mints, and token balances
  5. Instructions, fees, and finality
  6. Build and test a first local program
  7. Foundations capstone: verify a Solana transfer
  8. Staking, validators, and the stake-account lifecycle

Solana Builder 12 lessons

  1. Build a reliable read-only client
  2. Stream Solana account and transaction changes reliably
  3. Design a production Solana indexer
  4. Connect browser wallets safely with Solana Kit
  5. Build and reconcile Solana token payments
  6. Programs and explicit account state
  7. Program-derived addresses
  8. Cross-program calls and token authorities
  9. Anchor validation and negative tests
  10. Native Rust processors and explicit account checks
  11. Share safe Solana transactions with Actions and Blinks
  12. Builder capstone: design and test a token escrow

Solana Architect 7 lessons

  1. Threat-model a Solana protocol
  2. Authority, signatures, and replay resistance
  3. Transaction reliability and recovery
  4. Public data, privacy, and token design
  5. State compression and Bubblegum V2
  6. Production operations and incident response
  7. Expert capstone: design a Solana application

Basic

Solana Foundations

Understand the network, protect your keys, and read on-chain evidence.

  • 8 carefully paced lessons
  • Guided practice + self-checks
  • Level exam + web certificate
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Intermediate

Solana Builder

Build reliable Solana clients, integrate wallets safely, model program state, and test meaningful behavior.

  • 12 carefully paced lessons
  • Guided practice + self-checks
  • Level exam + web certificate
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Expert

Solana Architect

Reason about authorization, adversarial inputs, privacy, and reliable operations.

  • 7 carefully paced lessons
  • Guided practice + self-checks
  • Level exam + web certificate
Free to read · account saves your progressPREVIOUS EXAM REQUIRED

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THE LEARNING PROMISE

Free at every stage.
Practical by design.

01

Understand, then act

Start with a clear explanation and safe practice. No wallet or purchase required to learn.

02

Build real skills

Follow worked flows, then test your own assumptions in a safe development setting.

03

Keep your achievement

Pass a level exam for a free web certificate. Optional NFT minting is not open yet.

A THOUGHTFUL PLACE TO BEGIN

You don’t need a wallet
to learn something real.

Read, practice, and understand the network at your own pace. A wallet is never required for learning. Any future on-chain credential will be optional: you must inspect and approve its transaction, and your wallet will pay the displayed network and asset costs.

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