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Rust for Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and DeFi Platforms isn't just a reference, it's your definitive playbook for building secure, high-performance decentralized systems with Rust's zero-cost abstractions, ownership-driven safety, and modern async tooling. From designing pluggable consensus engines and writing bulletproof smart contracts to architecting scalable DeFi services and embedding them in production-grade infrastructure, this book equips you with the deep-dive strategies, reusable patterns, and end-to-end examples you need to deliver mission-critical blockchain applications with confidence. What You'll Learn ✔ High-Performance Consensus Engines - Survey PoW, PoS, PoA, and BFT protocols and encode them behind a pluggable ConsensusEngine trait - Parallelize block validation and mempool ingestion using Tokio's task scheduler - Apply property-based tests and fuzzing to prove your engine correct under adversarial inputs ✔ Bulletproof Smart Contracts in Rust - Target ink!, Solang, and CosmWasm runtimes to compile safe WASM contracts - Leverage ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes to eliminate reentrancy and data races - Mitigate overflows, implement access control, and integrate formal proofs and audits ✔ Architecting Scalable DeFi Platforms - Organize code in modular monoliths or microservices within a Cargo workspace - Balance on-chain vs. off-chain state with oracles, state channels, and light clients - Build AMMs, cross-chain bridges, and automated liquidity pools with checked math and clear abstractions ✔ Async & Concurrency at Scale - Fuse Rust's async/await with Tokio and async-std for nonblocking P2P networking - Discover peers via mDNS and Kademlia, and gossip data with Gossipsub - Coordinate channels, timeouts, and cancellation for resilient pipelines ✔ Secure Production Infrastructure - Encrypt traffic with rustls, enforce mTLS, and manage keys via Obelisk - Integrate service meshes like Linkerd2-proxy or Conduit for zero-trust connectivity - Automate deployments and custom resources with kube-rs operators and CRDs Who This Book Is For - Rustaceans building next-gen blockchain nodes and consensus layers - Smart-contract developers targeting Substrate, Solana, or Cosmos ecosystems - DeFi engineers crafting high-throughput AMMs, oracles, and cross-chain bridges - DevOps and platform architects automating secure, scalable Rust services Packed with complete code samples, real-world case studies, and actionable best practices, Polkadot/Substrate deep dives, Solana's parallel pipeline, WASM-first chains, ZK proof integrations. This book is the essential guide to mastering decentralized systems where every transaction, state change, and cycle truly counts.

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