RiB Newsletter #31

Welcome to the #31 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #30.

 

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Dan Shields, Harlan T Wood, John Adler, Marcin, Max Wegman, Samuel Dare, Squirrel. 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…

arloader.

Arloader is a command line client for uploading files to Arweave. Files published to Arweave are stored forever. The platform is commonly used for storing NFT information. Fees can be paid in either the Arweave native token or SOL.

 

Interesting Things

Blog Posts

Papers

Projects

  • Akula. Ethereum client written in Rust, based on Erigon client architecture.
  • Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
  • Gear is a Substrate-based smart-contract platform allowing anyone to run dApp in a few minutes.
  • gp-v2-services. Off-chain services for Gnosis Protocol v2
  • interBTC. A trust-minimized bridge from Bitcoin to Polkadot.
  • orion. Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto.
  • Pathfinder. A StarkNet full node written in Rust.
  • RealTPS measures the current number of transactions per second committed by various blockchains.
  • Shade Protocol is an array of connected privacy-preserving dApps built on Secret Network.
  • Sway is a language developed for the Fuel blockchain. doc: The Sway Programming Language.

 

Security Advisories

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

 

Most Active in December

Parity: 336 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 115 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 75 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Solana: 265 merged PRs (1, 2), 46 closed issues (1, 2), 46 open issues (1, 2)

NEAR: 251 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 51 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 62 open issues (1, 2, 3)

 

Project Updates

Aleo

110 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 52 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 30 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Anoma

26 merged PRs (1, 2), 22 closed issues (1), 20 open issues (1)

ChainSafe

36 merged PRs (1, 2), 35 closed issues (1, 2), 17 open issues (1, 2)

COMIT

27 merged PRs (1), 5 closed issues (1), 7 open issues (1)

Concordium

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

Conflux

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

DarkFi

2 merged PRs (1), 5 closed issues (1), 12 open issues (1)

Dfinity

18 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 2 closed issues (1, 2), 8 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Diem

143 merged PRs (1), 20 closed issues (1), 16 open issues (1)

Elrond

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

Findora

19 merged PRs (1, 2), 9 closed issues (1), 5 open issues (1)

Fluence

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

Golem

17 merged PRs (1), 7 closed issues (1), 21 open issues (1)

Grin

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

Holochain

26 merged PRs (1, 2), 5 closed issues (1, 2), 2 open issues (1)

Interledger

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

IOTA

10 merged PRs (1), 5 closed issues (1), 2 open issues (1)

Lighthouse

7 merged PRs (1, 2), 5 closed issues (1), 11 open issues (1, 2)

MobileCoin

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

NEAR

251 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 51 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 62 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Nervos

82 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 6 closed issues (1, 2), 4 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Parity

336 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 115 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 75 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Rust Bitcoin

49 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 24 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 13 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Rust Ethereum

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

Secret Network

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

Solana

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

Spacemesh

6 merged PRs (1), 50 closed issues (1, 2), 64 open issues (1, 2)

Subspace Labs

43 merged PRs (1), 14 closed issues (1), 2 open issues (1)

TezEdge

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

Zcash

87 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 58 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 103 open issues (1, 2, 3)

zkSync

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

 

Events

Dec 22, 2021 - Feb 10, 2022 | Online

NEAR MetaBUILD Hackathon

Feb 5-6, 2022 | Online

FOSDEM 2022

Feb 14-18, 2022 | Canada

Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022

Apr 2022 | Amsterdam

Devconnect

Apr 16 - May 13th, 2022 | Online

Scaling Ethereum

Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2022 | Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University

SBC'22: The Science of Blockchain Conference 2022

 

Careers

DEX Labs | Remote

Parity Technologies | Berlin, Lisbon, or Remote

Web3 Foundation | Zug or Remote

More jobs can be found at Job Board.

 

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