The Solana Program Security Checklist I Wish I'd Had on Day One

<p>The counter program is small, but the useful part was not the counter. The useful part was learning where state lives, how Anchor turns account validation into Rust types, and

<p>When you write a normal backend, you mostly trust your own database. A row you wrote is a row you can read back, and the data is what you put there. Solana works differently,

<p>I spent a week building a counter program in Anchor — the Rust framework<br /> for writing Solana programs. By the end I had two instructions, one<br /> authorization

<h1>How to Audit a Solana Program Before Launch</h1> <p>Launching a Solana program without proper auditing is like deploying a parachute without checking if it opens. One critical

<p>There's a class of prompt injection attack that bypasses almost every AI firewall on the market — and it's sitting in the blind spot of your agentic stack right now.</p>

<p><em>The AWS Reliability Files, Part 1</em></p> <p>I told an AI a true fact about AWS. Then I had a second AI confidently insist it was wrong. Within one exchange, the first

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>Submitted by:</strong> Adam Kruger <strong>Date:</strong> March 23, 2026 <strong>Models Solved:</strong> 3/3 (M1, M2, M3) + Warmup</p>

<p>The OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 reshuffled in 2026 — reentrancy dropped from #2 to #8, proxy vulnerabilities entered the chart, and business logic flaws climbed. But the real