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Building a Production-Ready Blockchain Node in Rust from Scratch

·2037 words·10 mins
Blockchain Systems Programming Rust Networking Rust Libp2p Tokio Blockchain Cryptography Async-Await Distributed-Systems
If you look at the landscape of distributed systems in 2025, one fact is undeniable: Rust has become the lingua franca of blockchain development. From the high-throughput architecture of Solana to the modular frameworks of Substrate (Polkadot) and the safety-critical contracts of Near, the ecosystem has converged on Rust.

Architecting High-Performance Network Protocols in Rust: A Deep Dive into Tokio and Zero-Copy Parsing

·2419 words·12 mins
Systems Programming Rust Networking Rust Tokio Networking Performance Zero-Copy Async I/O
In the landscape of systems programming in 2025, Rust has firmly established itself not just as a participant, but as the dominant architect of modern networking infrastructure. From the proxy layers powering massive cloud providers to the distributed databases handling millions of transactions per second, the industry has shifted away from C++ and Java toward Rust’s promise of memory safety without garbage collection pauses.