I just finished my second week of the #100DaysOfSolana challenge, and it’s been a massive shift in perspective. If the first week was about understanding the what (wallets and Lamports), this week was all about the how —specifically, pulling that data off the chain and showing it to the world. Here’s a breakdown of what I’ve been building and the discovery moments I had along the way. The Mental Shift: The Public Database Before starting, I expected blockchain data to be cryptic and hard to reach. The reality is that Solana feels like a globally distributed public database. In a traditional app, your data is tucked away in a private SQL or NoSQL database managed by a backend server. On Solana, everything is an account and accounts are public by default; anyone with an RPC connection can read the state of an account at any time. The CLI vs. The Frontend My week was a game of two halves: working in the terminal and building in the browser. 1.…