Connecting the blocks

This section will start bringing important independent concepts together to build a functional blockchain.

Let us first start by looking at some essential libraries that will be used throughout this project.

Libraries powering blockchain operations

This section will cover crucial libraries essential for the Blockchain struct’s operations. These libraries cover diverse aspects of the blockchain’s core functionalities, enhancing its efficiency and overall performance.

Data storage with Sled

The Blockchain struct heavily relies on the Sled library for robust data storage management. By utilizing a key-value store approach, Sled is fully implemented in Rust and offers ACID transactions, which ensures data consistency even in the presence of errors such as crashes, and that’s the right use case for our blockchain since data consistency is paramount. An interesting point to note is that Sled is an embedded database, meaning that it...