diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 1a41639..15aeb29 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ src/App/          shared Avalonia UI library (App, Views, ViewModels, Loc, Asset
 src/App.Desktop/  desktop head (WinExe): Program.cs, app.manifest, .ico → runnable
 src/App.Android/  Android head (net10.0-android): MainApplication/MainActivity → apk
 src/Cli/          CLI on the same Core            tests/   xUnit
+docker/           reproducible release builds (build.sh + pinned Dockerfiles) → dist/
 ```
 
 The Avalonia UI lives **once** in `src/App` (a library); the two heads only carry the
@@ -46,8 +47,9 @@ by `MainWindow` on desktop and as the single-view root on Android.
 - Tests (headless, the primary verification layer): `dotnet test` — single: `dotnet test --filter "FullyQualifiedName~TestName"`; property-based tests (CsCheck, `PropertyTests.cs`) run in the same command and take ~30 s
 - GUI hot reload: `dotnet watch --project src/App.Desktop` (on WSL2/WSLg the window shows on the Windows desktop, no graphics dependencies to install)
 - CLI: `dotnet run --project src/Cli -- <command>` (no args → usage)
-- Windows publish: `dotnet publish src/App.Desktop -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true --self-contained`
-- Linux publish: `dotnet publish src/App.Desktop -r linux-x64 --self-contained` (then AppImage via PupNet Deploy)
+- **Release binaries (all 3 targets): `./docker/build.sh [windows|linux|android|all]`** — reproducible builds in Docker (toolchain pinned in `docker/Dockerfile.*`, no SDK needed on host), artifacts in `dist/`, version taken from the App csproj. See `docker/README.md`. Gotchas already encoded there: single-file desktop publishes need `-p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true` (without it Avalonia's native libs — Skia/HarfBuzz/ANGLE — stay outside the exe, which then silently fails to start); the android workload dictates the SDK API level (error XA5207 → bump `ANDROID_SDK_PLATFORM` in `Dockerfile.android`).
+- Manual Windows publish: `dotnet publish src/App.Desktop -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true --self-contained`
+- Manual Linux publish: same with `-r linux-x64` (single-file binary; AppImage via PupNet Deploy is a future step, no pupnet.conf yet)
 
 **Android (apk).** Needs the `android` workload (`dotnet workload install android`), a JDK
 (`JAVA_HOME`), and the Android SDK. To provision the SDK once:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 846af80..b4365f8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -147,6 +147,26 @@ The suite includes **property-based tests** ([CsCheck](https://github.com/Anthon
 
 ## Building
 
+### Reproducible builds (Docker) — recommended for release binaries
+
+All three distribution targets (Windows exe, Linux binary, Android apk) can be
+built with one command inside Docker, with **no SDK installed on the host**:
+
+```bash
+./docker/build.sh          # interactive menu, or: ./docker/build.sh all
+```
+
+Why build this way: the whole toolchain is pinned in the Dockerfiles, so every
+build uses exactly the same SDK versions regardless of the host machine — no
+toolchain drift between releases — and the build environment itself is
+reviewable in the repo. For a wallet this is a trust property, not a
+convenience: anyone can rebuild the published binaries from source and check
+they were produced by the process the repository declares.
+
+See [docker/README.md](docker/README.md) for prerequisites, usage, how to run
+each produced artifact, and troubleshooting. The sections below cover manual
+builds with a locally installed SDK (the normal path during development).
+
 ### Development build
 
 ```bash
@@ -162,7 +182,10 @@ dotnet build src/App.Desktop              # desktop head only
 
 ```bash
 # Windows — single self-contained .exe (output: src/App.Desktop/bin/Release/net10.0/win-x64/publish/PalladiumWallet.exe)
-dotnet publish src/App.Desktop -c Release -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true --self-contained
+# IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract embeds Avalonia's native libs (Skia, HarfBuzz, ANGLE):
+# without it they stay as separate DLLs and the .exe alone silently fails to start.
+dotnet publish src/App.Desktop -c Release -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true \
+  -p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true --self-contained
 
 # Linux — self-contained; AppImage then produced with PupNet Deploy
 # (output: src/App.Desktop/bin/Release/net10.0/linux-x64/publish/PalladiumWallet)