How to build a blockchain in Rust

• rust-libp2p

  31 4,196 9.8 Rust

  The Rust Implementation of the libp2p networking stack.

  

Most of this simplicity is thanks to the fantastic libp2p library, which does all the heavy lifting in terms of networking. Clearly, as is always the case in software engineering tutorials, for a production-grade blockchain-application, there are many, many more things to consider and get right.

• tokio

  196 24,854 9.5 Rust

  A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

  

We’re using libp2p as our peer-to-peer networking layer and Tokio as our underlying runtime.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• rust-blockchain-example

  1 71 0.0 Rust

  Simple example for building a blockchain in Rust

You can find the full example code at GitHub.

• substrate

  83 8,348 8.1 Rust

  Discontinued Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators

  

However, this exercise sets the stage for the topic, explaining some of the basics and showing them off in Rust, so that we can continue this journey by looking at how we would go about building a blockchain application that could actually be used in practice with a framework such as Substrate.

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