Week 2 of #100DaysOfSolana: My Early Experience With Solana

Coming into Solana, I honestly expected blockchain data to feel abstract and complicated, like something hidden behind layers of cryptography that would be hard to reason about. In my head, I thought it would look nothing like the databases I was used to in Web2. But the reality surprised me. Once I started working with accounts and RPC calls, it began to feel less like “mystery tech” and more like a different kind of database, just one that’s public, distributed, and stricter about how data is