The original title is 12 words: "From Devnet to Mainnet: What Changes When Your Solana Program Goes Live"

Short summary

A conceptual guide to the mental shift required when moving a Solana program from devnet to mainnet. It covers three key changes: real SOL costs, real adversarial users, and permanent visible mistakes. The article explains upgrade authority as the one irreversible decision—keeping it allows bug fixes but requires user trust, while revoking it makes code immutable but unpatchable.

• •Mainnet introduces real costs, adversarial users, and permanent public mistakes
• •Upgrade authority is the one truly irreversible deployment decision
• •Teams typically progress from solo authority to multisig to eventual immutability

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