Rust for Blockchain Application Development: Learn to build decentralized applications on popular blockchain technologies using Rust - Softcover

Sharma, Akhil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1837634645 ISBN 13: 9781837634644

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Save time, improve stability, and optimize program memory while building decentralized applications on a blockchain using the features and complexity of Rust

Key Features

• Implement peer-to-peer blockchain using the features of Rust
• Use Rust to build dApps on popular blockchains like Ethereum, Solana, and NEAR
• Optimize Rust code and enhance security updates to deploy blockchain to production

Book Description

Before Rust, blockchain developers didn’t have a systems programming language that was fast, type-safe, and, at the same time, had stable and easy memory management. It proved to be a boon for developers and works as the perfect solution for not only blockchain and protocol development but also dApp development.

This book emphasizes on demonstrating those solutions that can help blockchain developers productize decentralized applications using Rust, which is a complex language with a steep learning curve.

Our book starts with basic Rust concepts and then builds on these concepts to enable the reader to build their own blockchain from scratch. Later in the book, we will build dApps on popular chains like Solana and NEAR. We also build Ethereum dApps using Foundry (Rust) and finally build a custom blockchain using Substrate by Parity (Polkadot). This gives a complete 360-degree view of Rust in the blockchain ecosystem.

By the end of this book, the reader will have a thorough understanding of how to apply their Rust knowledge to building dApps and blockchains from scratch, which are skills that are required for some of the most high-paying jobs of this decade.

What you will learn

• Understand the necessary concepts of Rust required to build blockchain
• Apply blockchain features like nodes and p2 communication using Rust
• Understand and implement consensus in Blockchain
• Build and deploy a dApp on Ethereum with the Foundry framework in Rust
• Learn, build, and deploy a dApp on Solana and the NEAR protocol
• Build a custom blockchain using the substrate framework by Polkadot

Who this book is for

This book is for blockchain developers interested in building dApps on popular blockchains using Rust. In addition to this, Blockchain Architects, wanting to save time required to go through documentation and understand each technology can get a quick start with this book. The book has real-world examples and projects that will be a great addition to a developer’s portfolio to showcase their knowledge. Readers are expected to have experience building applications on blockchain, and familiarity with Rust would be helpful.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Blockchains With Rust
2. Rust - Necessary Concepts For Building Blockchains
3. Building A Custom Blockchain
4. Adding more features to our Custom Blockchain
5. Finishing up our Custom Blockchain
6. Using Foundry to Build on Ethereum
7. Exploring the Solana chain and building a Dapp on Solana
8. Exploring the NEAR blockchain and building a dApp on NEAR
9. Exploring Polkadot, Kusama protocol and Substrate
10. Building Your Own Custom Blockchain From scratch using Substrate
11. The Future Of Rust For Blockchains

About this title

About the Author

Akhil Sharma is a Software Engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Dominate, a SaaS product company, and the founder of Myrl Tech, a tech services company providing technology consulting to some of the top enterprise companies in the world such as HP, 3M, Honda, Bose, and Adobe. He has 12+ years of industry experience and a solid understanding of building digital products. He is adept at multiple programming languages such as Golang, Rust, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript. He has mentored hundreds of engineers offline and discovered that they knew the programming language and the concepts around it but were unable to use them in real-world applications. He aims to close this gap by teaching how to apply the concepts practically and build projects in real time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837634645
• ISBN 13: 9781837634644
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392