Quick Start

Welcome to the Solana quick start guide! This hands-on guide will introduce you to the Solana Playground (Solpg), where you can learn core-concepts, regardless of your prior experience. In this tutorial, you will learn about:

Solana Accounts: How the Solana network stores data
Sending Transactions: How to interact with the Solana network by sending transactions
Building and Deploying Programs: Create your first Solana program and deploy it to the network
Program Derived Addresses (PDAs): Learn how to use PDAs to create deterministic addresses for accounts
Cross-Program Invocations (CPIs): Learn how to call other programs from within your program, enabling complex interactions and composability between different programs on Solana

The Solana Playground

The Solana Playground is a browser-based development environment that allows you to develop, deploy, and test Solana programs without installing anything locally. Follow along, copy, and paste code, and see results immediately. Basic programming knowledge helps but is not required. Time to dive in and start building with Solana!

As a new user, the first step to interacting with the Solana Playground is to create a Playground wallet and add SOL. This wallet will allow you to interact with the Solana network directly from your browser.

Create a Playground Wallet

Navigate to the Solana Playground

Using your web browser, navigate to the Solana Playground.

Connect to the Playground

Click the 🔴 Not connected text at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Not Connected

Save your Keypair

Click Save keypair to save your key pair locally. When you're ready, click Continue.

Create Playground Wallet

At the bottom of the screen, you will see that you are now connected to the Playground wallet. You will also see the connected cluster (devnet), the wallet address, and your SOL balance.

Connected

Your browser's local storage saves your Playground wallet. Clearing your browser cache will remove your saved wallet.

Use your Playground wallet for testing and development only. Never send real assets (from mainnet) to this address.

Congratulations! You created your first Solana Wallet. You are now ready to add SOL to your wallet.

Add SOL to Your Wallet

Before starting development, you need to add devnet SOL to your wallet. As a developer, SOL is used for two main use cases:

To create new accounts for storing data or deploying programs
Paying transaction fees when interacting with the Solana network

You can add devnet SOL to your wallet using the Playground terminal or with the Devnet Faucet. Each option is described below:

Option 1: Use the Playground Terminal

Run the following command in the Playground terminal:

Terminal

$ solana airdrop 5

Option 2: Use the Devnet Faucet

If option 1 fails, due to rate limits or other errors, use Solana's Web Faucet.

Enter your wallet address
Select an amount
Click Confirm Airdrop

Faucet Airdrop

Next Steps

Now that you have created a Playground wallet and added Devnet SOL, you are ready to read from the Solana network.

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