For friends who are only familiar with EVM.
Author: NingNing
This guide will transform the concept of EVM into the concept of Solana.
Concepts related to Transactions
Blocks
Solana's block time is 400 milliseconds, referred to as a Slot. Slots and block heights may differ in Solana.
Staking rewards are distributed to validators every Epoch, approximately every 2-3 days, equivalent to 432,000 slots.
Wei
The smallest unit of SOL is lamport, with a precision of 9 (9 decimal places).
Most of the homogeneous tokens in the Solana ecosystem default to 6 decimal places, rather than 18.
Hexadecimal / Binary
Data in Solana is mostly represented in base58, which can be converted to hexadecimal using the from_base58() function.
PoS and Proof
Solana defaults to using Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) to ensure security.
Validators use the Proof of History (PoH) consensus mechanism to vote on slots (leadership rotates every Epoch).
These are all done on the base chain, with two types of transactions: voting and non-voting.
Addresses
Solana's addresses are also called "accounts," with a special type of account called "Program Derived Accounts" (PDA).
PDAs require a small rent payment to prevent state bloat.
Smart Contracts
Referred to as "programs" on Solana.
Programs are deployed through the BPF uploader and can be upgraded at any time.
Transaction Data
Referred to as "instructions" on Solana.
Each transaction has multiple "data" fields nested in the "instructions" array.
The solana.instruction_calls table can be used to process instructions.
From/To
From is the transaction initiator, and To is the account where the instruction is executed.
Traces
Due to the nested array storage of instruction data, it is not like Ethereum's ethereum.traces.
The solana.instruction_calls table can be used as a replacement.
Function Signatures
Use "discriminators" instead, which can be 1 byte, 4 bytes, or 8 bytes long.
The solana.discriminators table can be used for identification.
Event Signatures
Events mostly appear in log messages. Dune has not yet decoded or stored event signatures.
Gas
Use "compute units" to represent computational load, which can be found in log messages.
Native programs (system, stake, vote) do not consume computational load.
Gas Fee
Solana has not implemented usage-based pricing and charges a fixed fee of 5000 lamports per transaction.
Priority fees can be added by calling the "Set Compute Unit Price" instruction.
50% of the transaction fee and 50% of the rent fee are destroyed.
Concepts related to Smart Contracts
Programming Language
Solana uses Rust for program development, while Ethereum uses Solidity.
Solana provides the Anchor language as an abstraction layer for Rust, simplifying development.
ABI
Anchor programs have an Interface Definition Language (IDL), while SPL programs need to be manually converted to IDL.
Some Solana projects may upload the IDL to the chain, but not all projects do so.
Smart Contract Factory/Proxy Smart Contract
Solana programs create child accounts (PDAs) through the main program, rather than using factories and proxy contracts as in Ethereum.
Storage
Solana stores data in the binary buffer of accounts, unlike Ethereum's storage slots.
Nested/tree-like structure accounts (PDAs) are commonly used to store data.
Tokens
Solana's tokens are deployed through the spl_token program (or the newer token2022 program).
Token balances are stored in associated accounts, unlike Ethereum's balance mapping.
Staking
Staking in Solana is by default liquid, without the need to lock tokens.
Anyone can create staking accounts with any balance and delegate to validators.
ERC Standards
Solana does not have ERC standards like Ethereum, and there is a lack of uniformity between protocols.
Core Standard Changes
Changes to the core Solana code are managed through "feature gates" in the Solana codebase, unlike Ethereum's EIP process.
The above content is compiled from ANDREW HONG's https://read.cryptodatabytes.com/p/a-guide-to-solana-for-ethereum-analysts
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