SolDev Academy

Bridge your Solidity skills to Solana. A hands-on course by a battle-tested EVM developer teaching you to build production-grade Solana dApp...
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Why Solidity Developers Should Learn Solana in 2025

If you're a Solidity developer, you already have 80% of what it takes to build on Solana. The mental models transfer — accounts, programs, state management — it's the execution details that differ.


The Opportunity


  • 400ms finality vs 12-second blocks. Your DeFi protocols can react to market conditions in real time.

  • $0.001 transactions vs $5-50 gas fees. Micro-transactions and high-frequency strategies become viable.

  • No mempool = reduced MEV. The frontrunning problem that plagues Ethereum L1 is structurally different on Solana.

  • Atomic composability without flash loans. Multiple instructions in a single transaction, natively.


What Makes This Course Different


This isn't a "learn Solana from scratch" course. It's designed specifically for EVM-native developers who want to expand without starting over.


Every concept is taught as a translation:

  • mapping(address => uint256) → PDAs + Account data

  • ethers.js@solana/web3.js

  • Hardhat → Anchor + Bankrun

  • OpenZeppelin → SPL Token + Metaplex

  • Uniswap → Raydium/Orca patterns

  • Aave/Compound → Solana lending architecture


What You'll Ship


By the end of 26 lessons across 8 chapters, you will have built:

  • SPL tokens and Token-2022 extensions

  • NFT collections with Metaplex

  • A full-stack dApp with Next.js + Wallet Adapter

  • An AMM with constant-product math

  • A lending protocol with oracle integration

  • A CI/CD pipeline for mainnet deployment


Who This Is For


  • Solidity developers with 6+ months of experience

  • EVM engineers looking to go multi-chain

  • DeFi builders who want to build where the speed is


The course is $302/month with a 1-day free trial. Start Chapter 1 today and see if the Solana architecture clicks for you.

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Welcome to SolDev Academy 🚀

Welcome, Solidity Developer.


You're here because you've already mastered the EVM — now it's time to conquer Solana.


What You'll Build


Over 8 chapters and 26 lessons, you'll go from zero Solana knowledge to deploying production-grade dApps:


  • Chapters 1-2: Understand how Solana fundamentally differs from Ethereum, then pick up enough Rust to be dangerous

  • Chapters 3-4: Build your first Anchor programs, create tokens, and work with Token-2022 extensions

  • Chapters 5-6: Ship NFTs with Metaplex, build full-stack dApps with Next.js + Wallet Adapter

  • Chapters 7-8: Implement DeFi protocols (AMMs, lending), integrate Pyth oracles, and deploy to mainnet with CI/CD


How to Get the Most Out of This


  1. Go in order. Each lesson builds on the last. Sequential completion is enforced for a reason.

  2. Do every exercise. Reading code is not writing code. The exercises are where the real learning happens.

  3. Ask in the Community Chat. If you're stuck, drop a question. I'm active here and so are other students.

  4. Deploy to devnet early. Don't wait until Chapter 8 to deploy. Get comfortable with the deploy flow from Chapter 3 onward.


Your Background is Your Edge


Everything is taught through the lens of EVM concepts you already know — Uniswap ↔ Raydium, Aave ↔ MarginFi, ethers.js ↔ @solana/web3.js. You'll learn faster than someone starting from scratch.


Let's get to work. Open Chapter 1 and start building. 🛠️