RiB Newsletter #22 - A few tweaks

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Welcome to the #22 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the chillest newsletter about the chillest tech. Previous: #21.

There are many blockchains written in Rust now, and quite a few blockchains that run Rust smart contracts. It’s hard to keep up, but we try. In this month’s newsletter we note 21 of them, but there are more than that.

To reduce the manual work of keeping up with so many projects, we are changing the format of the “Project Updates” section.

Going forward, we will include the GitHub stats for all Rust blockchains that demonstrate significant development activity, but will not source news, blogs, and pull request links for most projects, unless those items have been submitted to the newsletter via pull request, instructions for which are on the website.

Pull requests to add project updates and other interesting links are very welcome. Next month’s draft is always posted immediately after the previous month, and all a contributor needs to do is fill in a line of markdown in their favorite project’s section, then submit a PR.

The end result may actually be that this section is more useful than in the past, as there are far fewer low quality links to e.g. project pull requests. Have a look at the difference this month, and let us know what you think of the change in the Telegram group.

 

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Ernest Kissiedu, Max Wegman, NiklasHusten, Brian Anderson, and Aimee Zhu. Thank you for your help!

RiB needs help to keep up with Rust blockchain projects. If you follow a particular project, or otherwise find information that is beneficial to the Rust & blockchain community, please contribute to the next issue by submitting a PR to the #23 draft.

 

Project Spotlight

Each month we like to shine a light on a notable Rust blockchain project. This month that project is…

Noir.

Noir is a language and compiler for building zero-knowledge proofs. It is designed to work with multiple proof-generating backends, the first of which is for barretenberg, as used by the Aztec Network.

It has some preliminary documentation that is possible to follow for someone without expertise in zero knowledge proofs.

As a generalized language with intent to support multiple proof systems, this seems like a promising project to learn about zero knowledge proofs, independent of specific blockchains.

 

Interesting Things

Blog Posts

Papers

Projects

 

Most Active in March

Parity: 356 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 126 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 110 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Solana: 404 merged PRs (1, 2), 35 closed issues (1, 2), 51 open issues (1, 2)

Diem: 189 merged PRs (1), 12 closed issues (1), 19 open issues (1)

 

Project Updates

Aleo

54 merged PRs (1, 2), 24 closed issues (1), 23 open issues (1)

COMIT

105 merged PRs (1, 2), 35 closed issues (1), 23 open issues (1, 2)

Concordium

9 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 0 closed issues, 0 open issues

Conflux

31 merged PRs (1), 11 closed issues (1), 6 open issues (1)

Diem

189 merged PRs (1), 12 closed issues (1), 19 open issues (1)

Elrond

40 merged PRs (1, 2), 1 closed issues (1), 0 open issues

Fluence

24 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 0 closed issues, 0 open issues

Golem

64 merged PRs (1, 2), 33 closed issues (1), 25 open issues (1)

Grin

30 merged PRs (1), 8 closed issues (1), 10 open issues (1)

Holochain

40 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 2 closed issues (1, 2), 6 open issues (1)

Lighthouse

1 merged PRs (1), 24 closed issues (1), 12 open issues (1, 2)

MobileCoin

21 merged PRs (1), 4 closed issues (1), 2 open issues (1)

NEAR

127 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 51 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 30 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Nervos

48 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 0 closed issues, 3 open issues (1, 2)

Parity

356 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 126 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 110 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Rust Bitcoin

41 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 7 closed issues (1, 2), 9 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Rust Ethereum

8 merged PRs (1), 4 closed issues (1), 3 open issues (1)

Secret Network

5 merged PRs (1), 0 closed issues, 1 open issues (1)

Solana

404 merged PRs (1, 2), 35 closed issues (1, 2), 51 open issues (1, 2)

Spacemesh

5 merged PRs (1), 21 closed issues (1), 26 open issues (1)

Zcash

102 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 40 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 56 open issues (1, 2, 3)

 

Events

May 20 | Online

Polkadot Decoded

 

Careers

Chainflip | Berlin, Remote

Matter Labs | Berlin, Kiev, Remote

Parity | Berlin & Remote

More jobs can be found at Job Board.

 

Want to be included in the next issue? Feel free to submit a PR to the #23 draft.

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