
Anchor is the most popular framework for Solana smart contracts. This book covers its macro system, account validation, testing, and deployment. Perfect for developers looking to streamline their Solana workflow. 

The official guide to Anchor, the framework for Solana smart contract development. Learn how to build, test, and deploy Solana programs with ease.

Anchor Book


**Blockchain Radicals uncovers the radical political potential of the blockchain, showing how it can be used by the left in the fight against capitalism.**

Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft and scams. The problem is real, but it isn't a new one. Capitalism has ruined crypto, but that shouldn't be the end of it.

Blockchain Radicals shows us how this has happened, and how to fix crypto in a way that is understandable for those who have never owned a cryptocurrency as well as those who are building their own decentralised applications. Covering everything from how Bitcoin saved WikiLeaks to decentralised finance, worker cooperatives, the environmental impact of Bitcoin and NFTs, and the crypto commons, it shows how these new tools can be used to challenge capitalism and build a better world for all of us.

While crypto is often thought of as being synonymous with unbridled capitalism, Blockchain Radicals shows instead how the technology can and has been used for more radical purposes, beyond individual profit and towards collective autonomy. 

How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

Blockchain Radicals


What will you build?
1) You will build a peer-to-peer system from scratch
2) You will secure the system with a day-to-day practical cryptography
3) You will implement Bitcoin and Ethereum backend components
4) You will write unit tests and integration tests for all core components


Follow the story of a software developer who is looking to revolutionize his local bar by implementing blockchain technology for its payment system.

Build a Blockchain from Scratch in Go


Clockwork is Solana's automation engine, enabling developers to schedule and automate smart contract execution. This book provides practical examples and deep dives into building automated workflows on Solana. 

Learn how to automate on-chain actions and schedule transactions on Solana using Clockwork. Includes guides, recipes, and best practices.

Automate on Solana with Clockwork


**Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.**

Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology, the hacking movement is trying to “build out” democracy into cyberspace.

Webb travels to Berlin, where she visits the Chaos Communication Camp, a flagship event in the hacker world; to Silicon Valley, where she reports on the Apple-FBI case, the significance of Russian troll farms, and the hacking of tractor software by desperate farmers; to Barcelona, to meet the hacker group XNet, which has helped bring nearly 100 prominent Spanish bankers and politicians to justice for their role in the 2008 financial crisis; and to Harvard and MIT, to investigate the institutionalization of hacking. Webb describes an amazing array of hacker experiments that could dramatically change the current political economy. These ambitious hacks aim to displace such tech monoliths as Facebook and Amazon; enable worker cooperatives to kill platforms like Uber; give people control over their data; automate trust; and provide citizens a real say in governance, along with capacity to reach consensus. Coding Democracy is not just another optimistic declaration of technological utopianism; instead, it provides the tools for an urgently needed upgrade of democracy in the digital era.


How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism

Coding Democracy


In this course, you will learn the mathematical foundations of distributed consensus as well as how to construct consensus protocols and prove them secure. We will motivate distributed consensus with a modern narrative, and yet we will cover the classical theoretical foundations of consensus. We will cover both classical, permissioned consensus protocols, as well as modern,permissionless consensus protocols such as Bitcoin.



Learn the mathematical foundations of distributed consensus as well as how to construct consensus protocols and prove them secure.

Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains


In non-technical terms, this book explains Digital Contracts: legally enforceable smart contracts that anyone can read.

You do NOT need prior knowledge about blockchains.

The book outlines the concept, gives examples, provides links to online tools that help to write, sign, deploy and manage digital contracts on the blockchain. Lexon’s grammar, vocabulary and document structure are illustrated. Lexon's paradigm is explained, including how it differs from other programming languages, staying closer to human thought. Lexon’s relationship to Computational Law and AI is discussed and applications and benefits are detailed. The appendix lists notable steps towards human-readability by other programming languages, complemented with notes on constructed human languages.


In non-technical terms, this book explains Digital Contracts: legally enforceable smart contracts that anyone can read.

Lexon: Digital Contracts


The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it’s coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder—the peerless visionary of technology and culture—explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns.

Google’s astonishing ability to “search and sort” attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies—videos, maps, email, calendars….And everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly, users submit to advertising. The system of “aggregate and advertise” works—for a while—if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads.

The crisis is not just economic. Even as advances in artificial intelligence induce delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on security. The Internet firewalls supposedly protecting all those passwords and personal information have proved hopelessly permeable.

The crisis cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture. The future lies with the “cryptocosm”—the new architecture of the blockchain and its derivatives. Enabling cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, NEO and Hashgraph, it will provide the Internet a secure global payments system, ending the aggregate-and-advertise Age of Google.

Silicon Valley, long dominated by a few giants, faces a “great unbundling,” which will disperse computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet.

Life after Google is almost here.


The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

Life After Google


A must-read for developers looking to master the Solana blockchain. This book covers everything from Solana's unique runtime and consensus to writing and deploying smart contracts using Rust. Includes practical examples and tips for optimizing your Solana dApps. 

A comprehensive guide to building, deploying, and scaling decentralized applications on the Solana blockchain. Covers Solana's architecture, smart contract development, and best practices for high-performance dApps.

Mastering Solana


Most explanations struggle to clarify how and why they work, so zk-SNARKs remain somewhat “magical” and elusive, deterring developers from exploring or utilizing them in projects. Resources are scattered across blog posts and GitHub libraries. This results in a high barrier to entry, thereby slowing the widespread adoption of zk-SNARKs and associated privacy-enhancing technologies. Even worse, implementing zk-SNARKs without understanding the fundamentals of how they work increases the potential for security issues.

We want to change that with our MoonMath Manual to zk-SNARKs, designed for an audience with only minimal experience in cryptography and programming.

What is particularly unique about the MoonMath Manual is that it is designed to enable users to construct zk-SNARKs using simple pen-and-paper computations. Throughout the manual, users are encouraged to complete exercises that ensure they engage with the foundational building blocks of zk-SNARKs. While doing that, readers build the smallest possible — but fully functional — cryptographic stack to compute zk-SNARK internals without the need of a computer.

As users go through the manual, they will grasp mathematical concepts that are not only used in SNARKs, but also in other zero-knowledge proofs and cryptography more generally.


The MoonMath Manual is a resource for anyone interested in understanding and unlocking the potential of zk-SNARKs

The MoonMath Manual


A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the Internet — and how that affects us all—from highly influential entrepreneur and technology investor Chris Dixon.

The author's thesis is that seemingly small initial decisions around software and network design can have profound downstream consequences on the control and economics of digital services. The book walks through the history of the internet, showing how it has gone through three major design eras: the first focused on democratizing information (read), the second on democratizing publishing (write), and the third on democratizing ownership (own).

A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the Internet.

Read Write Own - Building the Next Era of the Internet


## Overview

The Solana Cookbook is a comprehensive developer resource that offers the essential concepts and references for building applications on Solana. It provides recipes for accomplishing common programming tasks, code snippets and explanations, and examples addressing common use cases.

Key sections include:
- Getting started with Solana development
- Core concepts like transactions, accounts, and PDAs
- Working with tokens and NFTs
- Building dApps with Solana
- Advanced concepts like program security and optimization

This is an essential resource for any developer looking to build on Solana, providing practical guidance with focused, task-oriented explanations. 

A developer resource that provides the essential concepts and references for building applications on Solana.

The Solana Cookbook


## Overview

The Solana DeFi Handbook provides a thorough introduction to decentralized finance on Solana, explaining both the concepts and technical implementation details. This resource is ideal for developers and protocol designers looking to understand or build DeFi applications on Solana's high-performance blockchain.

The handbook covers:
- Core DeFi primitives on Solana
- Automated market makers, liquidity pools, and orderbooks
- Lending and borrowing protocols
- Staking and yield farming strategies
- Tokenomics design principles
- DeFi protocol security considerations

Unlike Ethereum-based DeFi, Solana's low transaction costs and high throughput enable more capital-efficient protocols with different design considerations, which this handbook thoroughly explores. 

A comprehensive guide to understanding and building on Solana's DeFi ecosystem, covering AMMs, lending protocols, yield farming, and tokenomics.

Solana DeFi Handbook


Bitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. For decades prior to Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention, a diverse group of computer scientists, privacy activists, and heterodox economists tried to create a digital form of money that could operate independently of government control. The Genesis Book tells the story of the people and projects that inspired the invention of the world’s first successful peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin

The Genesis Book


When the brand new is unthinkable, we fight over the old. That’s where we are today with governments, with politics, and with much of the physical world. But perhaps we can change that.

This book introduces the concept of the network state: a country you can start from your computer, a state that recruits like a startup, a nation built from the internet rather than disrupted by it.

The fundamental concept behind the network state is to assemble a digital community and organize it to crowdfund physical territory. But that territory is not in one place — it’s spread around the world, fully decentralized, hooked together by the internet for a common cause, much like Google’s offices or Bitcoin’s miners. And because every citizen has opted in, it’s a model for 100% democracy rather than the minimum threshold of consent modeled by 51% democracies.

Of course, there are countless questions that need to be answered to build something of this scope. How does a network state work socially, technically, logistically, legally, physically, financially? How could such a thing even be viable?

That’s why you should read this book.

The Network State


Known as "The Book" in the Rust community, this resource is the definitive guide to learning Rust. It covers ownership, lifetimes, concurrency, and more—skills crucial for building secure and efficient Solana programs. 

The official book on Rust, covering everything from basic syntax to advanced features. Essential for Solana and Anchor developers.

The Rust Programming Language


Imagine diving into the brainy world of zero-knowledge tech without the headache, because that's exactly what this book does. Using a bunch of animals chilling at the zoo as a fun metaphor, it breaks down the techy talk about gates, circuits, and how proofs are whipped up, making it a breeze to understand even for the total newbie.

Not just a read, but a play-along adventure, this book comes packed with interactive puzzles to test out what you've learned. Think of it as learning by doing, with a side of giggles. It's designed for anyone and everyone to get the gist of zero-knowledge proofs without feeling lost at sea. So, if you've been curious about all the buzz around cryptography but felt too intimidated to dive in, "ZK proofs: ELI5" is your friendly gateway into getting smart on the subject, all while having a blast.

Created by Marcin Michalski, head of protocol at Matter Labs.


Zero knowledge proofs: ELI5 is an online book and interactive game designed for anyone and everyone to get the gist of zero-knowledge proofs without feeling lost at sea.

Solana Books

📚 The Solana Cookbook

📚 Solana DeFi Handbook

📚 The Rust Programming Language