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Blockchain for Humans

by Bruno Machado

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Blockchain for Humans is the clear, no-nonsense guide to one of the most transformative technologies of our time.

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From Rust to Mainnet is a simple, practical guide to building and launching programs on the Solana blockchain. It takes you step-by-step from the basics of Solana, to writing your first program in Rust, to using the Anchor Framework for easier development. You'll learn how to test, deploy, and keep your programs running smoothly, with tips on speed, security, and scaling. Perfect for anyone who wants to go from zero to a working Solana project.

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The ABC of DeFi

by Bruno Machado

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The ABC of DeFi is a clear and practical guide to understanding decentralized finance without the jargon. From the basics of blockchain and smart contracts to the most popular DeFi tools, advanced use cases, and essential safety tips, this book walks you step-by-step through the new world of open, borderless finance. Whether you’re curious about how DeFi works or ready to make your first transaction, you’ll learn exactly what you need to start exploring with confidence.

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The Next Decade of Crypto

by Bruno Machado

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The Next Decade of Crypto explores where blockchain and digital assets are headed, from scaling solutions and interoperability to institutional adoption, new industries, and the challenges that must be overcome. It’s a forward-looking guide to how crypto will evolve from a disruptive experiment into a core part of global infrastructure — and what that means for investors, builders, and everyday users who want to understand and take part in shaping the future of the digital economy.

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The Ethereum Story

by Bruno Machado

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The Ethereum Story takes you on a journey from Ethereum’s bold beginnings to its role as the backbone of decentralized finance, NFTs, and the Web3 revolution. Blending history, innovation, and real-world impact, it reveals how this blockchain transformed from an ambitious idea into a global platform reshaping the internet’s future — and why its story is far from over.

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Zero-Knowledge Proofs Demystified

by Bruno Machado

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Zero-Knowledge Proofs Demystified breaks down one of the most important — and often misunderstood — concepts in modern cryptography. In plain language, it explains how zero-knowledge proofs make it possible to prove something is true without revealing the data behind it, and why this technology could redefine privacy, security, and trust in everything from finance to identity verification. Whether you’re a blockchain enthusiast, a developer, or simply curious about the future of the internet, this book offers a clear and practical guide to one of the most transformative ideas in digital technology.

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Memecoins: The Surge That Rewired Crypto

by Bruno Machado

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Memecoins: The Surge That Rewired Crypto traces how internet jokes became a $150B+ market force, and what that says about where liquidity and attention now come from. It covers what actually separates a memecoin from any other token, why the 2024 cycle behaved unlike the Dogecoin era, how Solana's low fees and launchpads collapsed the cost of creating a token, and the attention-liquidity-price flywheel that lets memes trade like cultural prediction markets. It gives equal weight to the market structure behind the upside and the concentration, bot, and contract risks behind the drawdowns.

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Solana Explained

by Bruno Machado

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Solana Explained is a practical guide to how the network actually works, built around one mental model: state lives in accounts, programs hold the logic, and declaring what a transaction touches is what makes parallel execution possible. It walks through Proof of History as a cryptographic clock, how staking and validator incentives secure the ledger, how compute units and priority fees decide what gets included, and the SPL token layer behind stablecoins, NFTs, and real-world assets. A clear foundation for anyone who wants to reason about Solana rather than memorize it.

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Sui: The Object-Centric Blockchain

by Bruno Machado

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Sui: The Object-Centric Blockchain explains what actually changes when state lives in objects rather than accounts. It traces Sui's origins in Meta's Diem work, then builds up the model that follows from owned, shared, and immutable objects: why independent state can execute in parallel, how the fast path avoids consensus entirely, and what Move and Programmable Transaction Blocks let you express that other chains cannot. It also covers Mysticeti consensus and finality, zkLogin and the user-experience decisions baked into the protocol, and the DeFi and economic layer built on top.

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Hyperliquid Explained

by Bruno Machado

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Hyperliquid Explained is a practical guide to a system that is both a blockchain and a financial venue. It works through the stack in the order it matters: HyperBFT for fast deterministic finality, HyperCore for a fully onchain order book with margin, spot, and perpetual futures as protocol primitives, and HyperEVM for smart contracts that reach that liquidity directly through system contracts and precompiles. Along the way it covers the machinery that keeps leveraged markets solvent — funding, mark prices, liquidations, oracles — plus HYPE staking, fee and burn economics, and the HIP standards shaping the ecosystem.

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General-Purpose Blockchains

by Bruno Machado

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General-Purpose Blockchains is a survey of the race for crypto's default execution layer, treating blockspace as a product built from execution, security, liquidity, and distribution. It lays out the architecture war — settlement plus rollups, one fast global state, or many sovereign chains — and why parallel execution became the central design battleground. From there it works through the contenders on their own terms: Ethereum's settlement-network strategy, Solana's integrated high-performance bet, and the approaches taken by Sui, Aptos, Monad, Avalanche, and Base.

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Zcash: Privacy by Design

by Bruno Machado

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Zcash: Privacy by Design is a compact guide to the network and the ZEC asset, starting from why financial privacy is not the same thing as secrecy. It explains the mental model — Bitcoin-like scarcity plus zero-knowledge proofs — then covers how shielded transactions actually work through zk-SNARKs, Orchard, Halo 2, and Unified Addresses, and which privacy properties users really get. It closes with ZEC's economics and proof-of-work security, the governance and roadmap around Ironwood and NU7, and an honest accounting of the thesis and its strongest counterarguments.