What this book covers
Chapter 1, Blockchains with Rust, outlines the critical blockchain concepts that we will use in the book.
Chapter 2, Rust – Necessary Concepts for Building Blockchains, explores the critical Rust concepts that we will be using to build our own blockchain.
Chapter 3, Building a Custom Blockchain, lays the foundation and the building blocks for our own custom blockchain that we’re building from scratch.
Chapter 4, Adding More Features to Our Custom Blockchain, sees up build on our blockchain and add more features to it.
Chapter 5, Finishing Up Our Custom Blockchain, brings together all the individual blocks that we have built and combines them into a complete blockchain.
Chapter 6, Using Foundry to Build on Ethereum, explores Foundry, a Rust framework that can be used to build and deploy smart contracts on Ethereum.
Chapter 7, Exploring Solana by Building a dApp, teaches you how to build a dApp for Solana.
Chapter 8, Exploring NEAR by Building a dApp, teaches you how to build a dApp for an upcoming blockchain, NEAR.
Chapter 9, Exploring Polkadot, Kusama, and Substrate, explores the basic concepts behind Substrate, which enables developers to build their own chains.
Chapter 10, Hands-On with Substrate, uses our knowledge of Substrate to build a custom blockchain.
Chapter 11, Future of Rust for Blockchains, discusses the future of blockchains with Rust.