Anchor vs Pinocchio: the real deploy cost

The Solana mainnet deploy came in at $141. For a demo project. I stopped, recalculated, and stared at the number for a minute. I'd built the tip jar in Anchor 0.32.1 — the standard framework, the one with real docs, the one everyone reaches for first. It worked. Seven integration tests passed. Then I checked the binary before committing 1.6 SOL to mainnet: 230 KB. Three options, one decision On Solana, accounts need to hold enough SOL to cover two years of rent to become rent-exempt, otherwise t