Cryptographic Primitives
Blake3 hashing, Ed25519 signatures, and merkle trees
Building a Blockchain from Scratch
Learn blockchain internals by building one from scratch in Rust
What You’ll Learn
Section titled “What You’ll Learn”Virtual Machine Design
Build a register-based VM with gas metering
State Management
Persistent storage with accounts and contract state
Smart Contracts
Deploy and execute bytecode on your blockchain
English Auction Contract
Storage layout, dispatch flow, CLI usage, and test coverage
Project: Minichain
Section titled “Project: Minichain”A minimal but complete blockchain featuring:
- Account-based model (like Ethereum)
- Register-based VM with 16 registers
- Proof of Authority consensus
- Custom assembly language
- Full CLI for interaction