RiB Newsletter #42

Welcome to the #42 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #41.

It was a bonanza of a month for blockchain Rust, with many new projects appearing and blogging about their work, including a new HotStuff derivative, HotShot, a new Ethereum light client, Helios, a new Ethereum full node implementation, reth, a new ZKVM, OlaVM, and a Rust SDK for Avalanche. We also heard more about the Plonky2 zero-knowledge prover.

In recent months we’ve noticed a steady trickle of security advisories relevant to Rust blockchains, with new advisories this month for wasmtime and libp2p. We hope everybody is running cargo-audit regularly, but note that cargo-audit references only the RustSec advisory database, and some vulnerabilities reported to the GitHub advisory database are not in the RustSec advisory database. Neither the wasmtime nor libp2p advisories published this month are currently in the RustSec database.

In other security news, Secret Network’s trusted execution environment was completely compromised. Fortunately it was done by whitehat researchers, but it’s more bad news about SGX and secure enclaves.

 

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Dominic Wörner, Hunter Trujillo, Tko, 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…

avalanche-types.

The behavior of Avalanche subnets is defined by customized VMs, which communicate with the Avalanche node over RPC. Avalanche VMs are typically written in Go. This is an official SDK for developing Avalanche VMs in Rust.

It was announced recently in a blog, Rust VM SDK: Build Custom Virtual Machines on Avalanche using Rust, and there is documentation available: How to Build a Simple Rust VM.

There are two example VMs using the SDK:

 

Interesting Things

News

Blog Posts

Papers

Projects

 

Security Advisories

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

 

Most Active in November

Parity: 439 merged PRs, 186 closed issues, 124 open issues

Sui: 395 merged PRs, 160 closed issues, 170 open issues

Solana: 264 merged PRs, 53 closed issues, 31 open issues

Fuel: 247 merged PRs, 165 closed issues, 137 open issues

Filecoin: 224 merged PRs, 131 closed issues, 92 open issues

 

Project Updates

Aleo

114 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 30 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 17 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Anoma

84 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 33 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 32 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Aptos

213 merged PRs (1), 132 closed issues (1), 62 open issues (1)

Casper

59 merged PRs (1, 2), 72 closed issues (1, 2), 19 open issues (1, 2)

COMIT

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

Concordium

65 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 33 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 11 open issues (1, 2)

Conflux

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

DarkFi

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

Dfinity

59 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 7 closed issues (1, 2), 6 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Dusk Network

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

Elrond

95 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 8 closed issues (1), 0 open issues

Espresso Systems

55 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 92 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 79 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Filecoin

224 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 131 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 92 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Findora

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

Fluence

49 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 1 closed issues (1), 1 open issues (1)

Fuel

247 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), 165 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 137 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

Golem

40 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 48 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 29 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Helium

9 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 6 closed issues (1, 2), 0 open issues

Holochain

24 merged PRs (1, 2), 8 closed issues (1), 11 open issues (1, 2)

IOTA

141 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 49 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 32 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Maidsafe

80 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 3 closed issues (1, 2), 14 open issues (1)

MobileCoin

44 merged PRs (1), 8 closed issues (1), 11 open issues (1)

NEAR

161 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 41 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 37 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Nervos

87 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 14 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 10 open issues (1, 2)

Oasis

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

Parity

439 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15), 186 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), 124 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)

Radix

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

Secret Network

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

Solana

264 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 53 closed issues (1, 2), 31 open issues (1, 2)

Subspace Labs

61 merged PRs (1), 16 closed issues (1), 8 open issues (1)

Sui

395 merged PRs (1), 160 closed issues (1), 170 open issues (1)

Zcash

93 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 46 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 42 open issues (1, 2, 3)

 

Rust in Bitcoin

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AluVM

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

BDK

28 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 36 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 21 open issues (1, 2, 3)

BitMask

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

Cyphernet

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

Electrs

7 merged PRs (1), 11 closed issues (1), 4 open issues (1)

Fedimint

84 merged PRs (1), 29 closed issues (1), 15 open issues (1)

LDK

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

LNP/BP

22 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 25 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 33 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

LNP WG

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

Nakamoto

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

RGB

6 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 25 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 6 open issues (1, 2, 3)

  • Contractum. A new smart contract language for RGB.

Rust Bitcoin

68 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 40 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 25 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Rust Simplicity

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

Sapio

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

Talaia

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

If we’ve missed any other notable Rust Bitcoin projects or ecosystems, feel free to contribute!

 

Rust in Ethereum

Ethers-rs

51 merged PRs (1), 26 closed issues (1), 11 open issues (1)

Foundry

86 merged PRs (1), 59 closed issues (1), 58 open issues (1)

Lighthouse

20 merged PRs (1, 2), 15 closed issues (1), 29 open issues (1, 2)

Rust Ethereum

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

zkSync

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

If we’ve missed any other notable Rust Ethereum projects or ecosystems, feel free to contribute!

 

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