Why
A deliberate non-EVM data point: every other on-chain demo here is Ethereum-family (Hyperliquid, Sepolia AA, PBS); Solana is the largest ecosystem with a genuinely different execution model, worth understanding rather than assuming EVM concepts transfer.
How it works
Planned: an Anchor (Rust) program deployed to Solana devnet — starting with a PDA-based counter, then a small SPL-token escrow to exercise Solana's account model (all state passed in explicitly, rather than living in contract storage) and cross-program invocations. The page would connect via Phantom/wallet-adapter and call the program through its Anchor-generated TypeScript client. Not yet built.
Related code
# Solana's account model — unlike EVM contract storage, all state lives in accounts
# that are passed into every instruction explicitly. Simulates a PDA-based counter
# program: the "program" has no storage of its own, only the accounts it's handed.
import hashlib
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
@dataclass
class Account:
pubkey: str
owner_program: str
data: dict = field(default_factory=dict)
def find_program_address(seeds: list, program_id: str) -> str:
"""Mimic Solana's deterministic PDA derivation (real PDAs also walk bump seeds
off the ed25519 curve; this stdlib version just needs to be deterministic)."""
joined = b"".join(seed.encode() for seed in seeds) + program_id.encode()
return "PDA_" + hashlib.sha256(joined).hexdigest()[:16]
COUNTER_PROGRAM_ID = "Counter1111111111111111111111111111111111"
def initialize_counter(owner_pubkey: str) -> Account:
"""Every account a Solana program touches must be passed in explicitly — there
is no implicit contract storage the way EVM `SSTORE` provides."""
pda = find_program_address(["counter", owner_pubkey], COUNTER_PROGRAM_ID)
return Account(pubkey=pda, owner_program=COUNTER_PROGRAM_ID, data={"count": 0})
def increment(counter_account: Account, signer_pubkey: str) -> None:
"""The 'instruction': operates only on the account object it's handed, never on
hidden global state — this is the account model the card's howItWorks names."""
if counter_account.owner_program != COUNTER_PROGRAM_ID:
raise PermissionError("account not owned by this program")
counter_account.data["count"] += 1
print(f" signer={signer_pubkey[:8]}... incremented {counter_account.pubkey[:12]}... "
f"-> count={counter_account.data['count']}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
print("Solana account model — PDA-based counter (state passed in, not stored implicitly)\n")
owner = "User11111111111111111111111111111111111111"
counter = initialize_counter(owner)
print(f"Derived PDA for owner: {counter.pubkey}")
print(f"Owned by program: {counter.owner_program}\n")
print("Calling increment three times, passing the account explicitly each time:")
for _ in range(3):
increment(counter, owner)
print(f"\nFinal on-chain state (lives in the account, not the program): {counter.data}")