Reading an account balance in Anchor: address(account).balance in Solana !Solona and Anchor get account balance Reading an account balance in Anchor Rust To read the Solana balance of an address...

Solana logs, "events," and transaction history !Solana logs, "events," and transaction history Solana programs can emit events similar to how Ethereum emits events, though there are some differences...

PDA (Program Derived Address) vs Keypair Account in Solana !Hero image showing PDA (Program Derived Address v.s. Keypair accounts) A program derived address (PDA) is an account whose address is...

Solana Sysvars Explained !Solana Sysvars In Solana, sysvars are read-only system accounts that give Solana programs access to the blockchain state as well as network information. They are similar to...

Function modifiers (view, pure, payable) and fallback functions in Solana: why they don't exist !Hero image showing view, pure, payable, fallback, and receive in Solona Solana does not have fallback...

Zero Knowledge Multiplication Zero Knowledge Multiplication of Polynomials Using the polynomial commitment scheme from the previous chapter, a prover can show that they have three polynomials $l(x)$,...

Polynomial Commitments Via Pedersen Commitments A polynomial commitment is a mechanism by which a prover can convince a verifier a polynomial $p(x)$ has an evaluation $y = p(x)$ at point $x$ without...

Try Catch and all the ways Solidity can revert This article describes all the kinds of errors that can happen when a smart contract is called, and how the Solidity Try / Catch block responds (or...

The Beacon Proxy Pattern Explained !Beacon Proxy Pattern Banner by RareSkills A Beacon Proxy is a smart contract upgrade pattern where multiple proxies use the same implementation contract, and all...

Storage Slots in Solidity: Storage Allocation and Low-level assembly storage operations This article examines the storage architecture of the Ethereum Smart Contracts. It explains how variables are...