token program

• one of the many programs made available by the solana progam library ( SPL )

• contains instructions for creating and interacting with spl tokens

• these tokens all represent non-native tokens ( ie, not $SOL ) on the network

• lets you do token mint and derive token account from a solana account

• to create a token mint you need to send the right solana instruction to the token program

  • can use createMint fn from @solana/spl-token ts sdk