Addresses and keys
Solana addresses are base58-encoded public keys, typically thirty-two to forty-four characters, with no prefix. An EVM address is not valid on Solana and cannot be derived into one.
Many wallets derive both from a single seed phrase using different derivation paths, which is why one phrase can produce both an EVM address and a Solana address that look nothing alike.
Accounts rather than balances
Everything on Solana is an account: your wallet, each token holding, each program, each piece of program state. Transactions must declare which accounts they touch, which is why Solana transactions list many addresses.
This declaration is also what makes parallel execution possible, and it is why a transaction can fail for touching an account another transaction is writing to.
It also means a transaction cannot quietly touch something it did not declare. Everything it can affect is listed before you sign, which is a real structural advantage over an EVM call whose downstream effects are not visible from the calldata alone.
Transaction previews are more useful here
Because accounts are declared up front, wallets can simulate a transaction and show exactly which balances will change before you sign. Good Solana wallets surface this clearly.
Reading that preview is the single most effective safety habit available, and it is better tooling than most EVM wallets offer.
Funding and fees
Keep a SOL buffer for fees and for the rent deposits new token accounts require. A wallet holding tokens but no SOL cannot transact, and cannot receive a new token type either.
FBT Swap supports Solana alongside sixteen EVM networks, routes through public aggregators, and shows the quote and fee before your wallet signs.