44 Days of Solana: From an Empty README to a Live NFT on-chain — My Finish-Up-A-Thon Story

Short summary

Developer documents a complete 44-day Solana learning journey, starting from an empty README with just a keypair generation and shipping a live on-chain NFT named 'First Light' using only spl-token CLI (no frameworks). Built and explained five Token-2022 extensions including soulbound tokens, interest-bearing tokens, transfer-fee tokens, and programmatic delegates. Published 9 Web2-friendly articles on DEV Community translating blockchain concepts; GitHub Copilot resolved critical errors on days 8, 23, 37, and 39—all transactions are publicly verifiable on Solana Explorer.

• •44-day solo project from empty repo to live on-chain NFT using only spl-token CLI commands
• •Built and documented five Token-2022 extensions with Web3 concepts translated into Web2 analogies
• •GitHub Copilot critical for debugging transaction errors and blockchain concepts at key blockers

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