General-Purpose Blockchains

About this book

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.