A Guide to Solana for Ethereum Analysts

This guide maps Ethereum (EVM) concepts to their Solana counterparts for analysts, covering transactions, contract patterns and protocol equivalents. It explains that Solana blocks are confirmed every 400ms in "slots," that a lamport is the smallest SOL unit with 9 decimals, and that the flat fee is 5000 lamports per signature. Smart contracts are called "programs," transaction data is organized as nested "instructions," and gas is replaced by "compute units." The guide also lists protocol counterparts, such as Uniswap corresponding to Orca Whirlpools, Lido to stake pools like Marinade Finance and Jito Sol, and Etherscan to Solscan and Solana.fm.