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I Queried a Blockchain Like a Database and It Kind of Broke My Brain

DEV Community·Tanisha fonseca·19 days ago
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Week 2 of #100DaysOfSolana: on reading public data, comparing accounts to tables, and the moment the "everything is public" thing got real. Let me tell you about the exact moment week 2 of this challenge stopped feeling theoretical. I had just written my first getBalance() call. Simple stuff paste an address, get a number back. And then I thought: what if I paste someone else's address? So I did. I pasted the Token-2022 program address ( TokenzQdBNbLqP5VEhdkAS6EPFLC1PHnBqCXEpPxuEb ) into my script. Same code, different address. And it just... worked. No API key. No authentication. No 403 Forbidden . Full balance, full transaction history, returned immediately. That's when the "Solana is a public database" framing stopped being a metaphor and started being a fact I could feel. What I Actually Built This Week Week 2 was the Reading the Blockchain arc. Seven days of querying data, building UIs around it, and then staring at the account model until it made sense.…

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