Reading Solana Data — What Started to Feel Real in My Second Week

Before this week, I still thought of blockchain data as something more abstract than it probably needed to be. I expected it to feel very different from the kinds of APIs and database reads I was already used to in Web2. But during the second week of 100 Days of Solana, that started to change. What made the difference was actually querying the data myself. What started to feel familiar The first shift came when I read a wallet balance directly from devnet. That did not feel as unfamiliar as I ex