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Rust for Blockchain Application Development

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634644
Pages 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Akhil Sharma Akhil Sharma
Profile icon Akhil Sharma

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Blockchains and Rust
2. Chapter 1: Blockchains with Rust 3. Chapter 2: Rust – Necessary Concepts for Building Blockchains 4. Part 2: Building the Blockchain
5. Chapter 3: Building a Custom Blockchain 6. Chapter 4: Adding More Features to Our Custom Blockchain 7. Chapter 5: Finishing Up Our Custom Blockchain 8. Part 3: Building Apps
9. Chapter 6: Using Foundry to Build on Ethereum 10. Chapter 7: Exploring Solana by Building a dApp 11. Chapter 8: Exploring NEAR by Building a dApp 12. Part 4: Polkadot and Substrate
13. Chapter 9: Exploring Polkadot, Kusama, and Substrate 14. Chapter 10: Hands-On with Substrate 15. Part 5: The Future of Blockchains
16. Chapter 11: Future of Rust for Blockchains 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Getting started with building the blockchain

In this section, we’ll create our first blockchain project. We will use the Cargo project we created in the previous section as the starting point for our project.

Block

In the upcoming steps, we will guide you through the process of creating a block, elucidating each essential detail along the way. In the src folder, create a file called block.rs and implement the following struct in it:

pub struct Block {
    timestamp: i64,
    pre_block_hash: String,
    hash: String,
    transactions: Vec<Transaction>,
    nonce: i64,
    height: usize,
}

We will be following the plan and roadmap that we created earlier, where we did some visual planning, and extend upon this by going through the data types that we have chosen for each of the fields.

Here, Block has been represented as a struct where we have...

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