What Building Three Token-2022 Mints Changed About How I Think About Tokens

This week I built three different Token-2022 mints on Solana Devnet:

• A fee-bearing token
• An interest-bearing token
• A non-transferable (soulbound) token

The biggest realization wasn't learning new CLI commands. It was understanding that Token-2022 lets you compose behaviors directly into a token instead of writing custom smart contracts.

A transfer fee isn't middleware anymore. Interest isn't a background cron job. A soulbound badge isn't enforced by your backend. They're all properties of the mint itself.

I wrote a complete technical walkthrough covering all three experiments here:

👉 https://dev.to/atharv_shukla_f7a20a5893f/three-token-2022-mints-in-one-week-fees-yield-and-soulbound- ...

If you're coming from Web2 and wondering what Token-2022 actually changes, I hope it helps.

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