RiB Newsletter #21 - More Rust and blockchains

March 02, 2021

Welcome to the #21 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the chillest newsletter about the chillest tech. Previous: #20.

It’s still a great time to be a Rust programmer.

This month the Rust Foundation was announced, and major tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook have hired prominent Rust compiler developers. Kraken, a major cryptocurrency exchange, posted a blog about how much they love Rust, then immediately posted a bazillion job openings, which we have added to the other job openings in the “careers” section below, and the job board on the website.

This month NEAR announced a grants program, and so did Secret Network. Many other Rust blockchains have grant programs: Polkadot has one, and so does Nervos, and so does Solana, and so does Zcash.

And RiB can now accept donations in NEAR at @rib.near, the account for which was donated to us by Peter from the NEAR team. RiB also accepts donations in BTC, ETH, and CKB, the addresses for which are on the website.

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: apruden2008, Ernest Kissiedu, Max Wegman, 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 #22 draft.

Project Spotlight

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

rust-umbral.

Umbral is a scheme for proxy re-encryption, by which the owner of a ciphertext, Alice, can designate a third party (the proxy), to re-encrypt that ciphertext to be decoded by Bob, without ever revealing the plaintext to the proxy.

Described in a 2018 paper, and blog post, Umbral is developed by the NuCypher project.

Interesting Things

News

Blog Posts

Podcasts

Papers

Projects

Teleport Transactions is software aiming to improve the privacy of Bitcoin.
Compound Chain. An interest-bearing stablecoin bridge between all DeFi chains.
europa. A sandbox to run and debug smart contracts for FRAME Contracts pallet and also a sandbox framework for Substrate runtime.
ethabi. Encode and decode smart contract invocations.
Hodor. Open source implementation of zkSTARKs in pure Rust.