RiB Newsletter #26

August 04, 2021

Welcome to the #26 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the chillest newsletter about the chillest tech. Previous: #25.

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Ernest Kissiedu, haochizzle, Max Wegman, Pranay Mohan, Pratyush Mishra, 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 next draft.

Project Spotlight

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

jsonrpsee.

This is an async implementation of JSON-RPC, from Parity, who also created the popular jsonrpc crate.

Interesting Things

News

Gnosis client development team Joins Erigon (formerly Turbo-Geth) to Release Next-Gen Ethereum Client. Gnosis deprecates OpenEthereum.

Blog Posts

Papers

Projects

Anoma. Implementation of the Anoma protocol in Rust. Anoma is a sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. The paper: Anoma: Undefining Money.
Nova. Recursive SNARKs without trusted setup.
Winterfell. A STARK prover and verifier for arbitrary computations.
The LibraBFT Simulator. Discrete-Event Simulation for BFT Consensus Protocols.
jsonrpsee. JSON-RPC library designed for async/await in Rust. Designed to be the successor to ParityTech’s JSONRPC crate.
Rust Cryptography Interest Group (RCIG): Awesome Rust Cryptography

Most Active in July

Solana: 345 merged PRs (1, 2), 29 closed issues (1, 2), 65 open issues (1, 2)

Parity: 257 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 139 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 81 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

NEAR: 132 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 141 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 57 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Concordium Announces Developers Open Grants Programme. GitHub: Concordium-Free-Open-Grants-Program. The Concordium Grant program has a specific mandate that recipients code must be open-sourced, and tooling developed must benefit both the Blockchain and Rustlang open source ecosystems.