- 1. Quick Start — See It Run
- 2. Introduction & Overview
- 3. Introduction to Blockchain
- 4. The Bitcoin Whitepaper
- 5. Bitcoin Whitepaper in Rust
- 6. Rust Blockchain Project
- 7. Primitives
- 8. Utilities
- 9. Cryptography
- 10. Chain: Domain Model
- 11. Chain: Blockchain State Management
- 12. Chain: Chain State and Storage
- 13. Chain: UTXO Set
- 14. Chain: Transaction Lifecycle
- 15. Chain: Block Lifecycle and Mining
- 16. Chain: Consensus and Validation
- 17. Chain: Node Orchestration
- 18. Chain: Transaction to Block
- 19. Block Acceptance
- 20. Storage Layer
- 21. Network Layer
- 22. Node Orchestration
- 23. Wallet System
- 24. Web API Architecture
- 25. Desktop Admin Interface (Iced)
- 26. Desktop Admin Interface (Tauri)
- 27. Wallet UI (Iced)
- 28. Wallet UI (Tauri)
- 29. Embedded Database & Persistence
- 30. Web Admin Interface
- 31. Deployment: Docker Compose
- 32. Deployment: Kubernetes
- 33. Rust Language Guide
Rust Blockchain: A Full-Stack Implementation Guide
From whitepaper to running blockchain
Most blockchain books teach the theory. This one walks you through building a complete Bitcoin-style blockchain in Rust, end to end — cryptography, consensus, networking, persistence, REST API, desktop wallets, and Kubernetes deployment.
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Most blockchain books teach the theory. This one teaches you to build it.
Across 33 chapters and 768 pages, Rust Blockchain: A Full-Stack Implementation Guide takes a production-quality blockchain system from the Bitcoin whitepaper to a running, deployable application.
Every chapter ends with code that compiles and runs. By the final chapter, you have a working blockchain — networking, consensus, persistence, REST API, desktop wallet, container deployment, and all.
Written for Rust developers exploring blockchain, blockchain engineers exploring Rust, and anyone who wants to understand how the pieces of a real distributed system actually fit together.
What you'll build
- Cryptographic primitives: SHA-256 hashing, Schnorr signatures, secp256k1 key generation, Base58 addresses
- The transaction model: UTXO accounting, script verification, mempool admission, double-spend prevention
- Proof-of-work consensus: difficulty adjustment, mining loop fork choice
- Full networking layer: peer discovery, gossip protocols, async I/O with Tokio
- Persistent storage: chain state, UTXO set, encrypted local storage with SQLCipher
- REST API layer: Axum routes, middleware, OpenAPI documentation
- Two desktop wallets: one in pure Rust (Iced) and one in Rust + React (Tauri 2)
- Production deployment: Docker Compose for development, Kubernetes for scale
What makes this book different
- It's a single system, not a tour of unrelated topics. Every chapter builds on the last; the code at the end of Chapter 33 contains everything you wrote across the previous 32.
- The full source code is on GitHub, MIT-licensed. Clone it, build it, modify it.
- The book reads like an engineering walkthrough, not a reference manual. You see the same code change three times — first the obvious version, then the version after the trade-off becomes clear, then the production version.
- Twelve+ technologies covered through one cohesive project: Rust, Tokio, Axum, Iced, Tauri 2, SQLCipher, Docker, Kubernetes, secp256k1, Schnorr, ring, and more.
What you get
The full PDF (color, syntax-highlighted, 768 pages) and the EPUB(optimized for any e-reader). Pay what you want, with a $24.99 minimum and a $39.99 suggested price.
The companion source code athttps://github.com/bkunyiha/rust-blockchain is free to clone whether you buy the book or not — but the book is what makes the code make sense.
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