RiB Newsletter #30

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Welcome to the #30 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #29.

This month RiB received donations of:

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Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Adam Szkoda, Adrien LF, Amir Taaki, Justin, Michael Ward, Radha, y2kappa, Brian Anderson, 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…

wagyu.

wagyu is a command line cryptocurrency wallet generator, with support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, and Zcash. It can generate both standard and hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets. It is from the Aleo project. A useful tool for those that create a lot of wallets.

 

Interesting Things

News

Blog Posts and Discussions

Papers

Projects

  • DAS, the Decentralized Account System. DAS is a multi-chain protocol for maintaining various types of identity information. It stores its data on the Nervos Network (CKB), but by using CKB’s rent model and capability for verifying foreign-chain transactions it mostly lets users avoid direct interaction with the CKB chain.
  • brainwallet. Rust command line program for Bitcoin brainwallet.
  • AlephBFT. Rust implementation of Aleph Protocol, which is an asynchronous and Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocol aimed at ordering arbitrary messages (transactions).
  • Polygon Miden. A STARK-based virtual machine.
  • ark-plonk. A pure Rust PLONK implementation using arkworks as a backend.
  • Scrypto. Language for building DeFi apps on Radix.
  • Zeekoe. Zero-knowledge layer-2 payment channels.

 

Security Advisories

Monthly security advisories, from RustSec, and GitHub Advisories. Bold entries here are especially relevant to blockchain projects.

 

Most Active in November

Parity: 341 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 148 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 122 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

NEAR: 264 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 56 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 86 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Solana: 222 merged PRs (1, 2), 36 closed issues (1, 2), 45 open issues (1, 2)

 

Project Updates

Aleo

126 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 23 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 38 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Anoma

27 merged PRs (1, 2), 31 closed issues (1, 2), 33 open issues (1, 2)

ChainSafe

31 merged PRs (1, 2), 31 closed issues (1, 2), 44 open issues (1, 2)

COMIT

0 merged PRs, 1 closed issues (1), 4 open issues (1)

Concordium

29 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 10 closed issues (1, 2), 4 open issues (1, 2)

Conflux

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

DarkFi

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

Dfinity

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

Diem

211 merged PRs (1), 17 closed issues (1), 35 open issues (1)

Elrond

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

Findora

23 merged PRs (1, 2), 14 closed issues (1), 5 open issues (1)

Fluence

16 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 7 closed issues (1, 2), 35 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Golem

25 merged PRs (1, 2), 29 closed issues (1), 29 open issues (1)

Grin

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

Holochain

40 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 5 closed issues (1, 2), 3 open issues (1)

IOTA

19 merged PRs (1), 3 closed issues (1), 9 open issues (1)

Lighthouse

17 merged PRs (1, 2), 16 closed issues (1, 2), 15 open issues (1)

MobileCoin

32 merged PRs (1, 2), 1 closed issues (1), 2 open issues (1)

NEAR

264 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 56 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 86 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Nervos

46 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 1 closed issues (1), 1 open issues (1)

Parity

341 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 148 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 122 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Rust Bitcoin

52 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 15 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 26 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Secret Network

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

Solana

222 merged PRs (1, 2), 36 closed issues (1, 2), 45 open issues (1, 2)

Spacemesh

13 merged PRs (1), 48 closed issues (1, 2), 21 open issues (1, 2)

Subspace Labs

45 merged PRs (1), 11 closed issues (1), 1 open issues (1)

TezEdge

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

Zcash

83 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 64 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 51 open issues (1, 2, 3)

zkSync

0 merged PRs, 2 closed issues (1), 6 open issues (1)

 

Events

Dec 1-3 | Seoul, Korea

ICISC: The 24th Annual International Conference on information Security and Cryptology

Dec 14-15 | Online

18th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding

Jan 24-26, 2022 | Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University

SBC'22: The Science of Blockchain Conference 2022

Feb 14-18, 2022 | Canada

Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022

Apr 6-9 | Portland, OR

dystopia Fest: Summit & Hackathon

Apr 16 - May 13th | Online

Scaling Ethereum

 

Careers

Bolt Labs | US, Remote

Hubble (Solana, DeFi) | London, Remote

Massa | Paris, Remote

Worldcoin | Berlin, San Francisco

More jobs can be found at Job Board.

 

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