RiB Newsletter #44

Welcome to the #44 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #43.

 

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: camilahanada, gcharang, Kadan Stadelmann, Paul d’Aoust, Vid Kersic, 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…

openmina.

This is a Rust implementation of Mina, a blockchain that uses SNARKs to validate the state of the blockchain without storing the blockchain itself. The distinguishing feature of this implementation is that it runs as WASM directly in a web browser, peering with other nodes via WebRTC and presenting a wallet UI, where most wallets require a semi-trusted RPC intermediary.

The ability to run completely in the browser has been a tantalizing promise of Mina, but with the primary codebase written in OCaml hadn’t previously materialized. This implementation was described recently in a blog post. It appears to be a different Rust implementation than the previous mina-rs.

 

Interesting Things

Blog Posts

Papers

Projects

  • Ordinals. A project that “imbues satoshis with numismatic value, allowing them to collected and traded as curios.”
  • AES Encryption circuit. ZK-SNARK circuit to prove that a given ciphertext is the correct AES-128 encryption using a certain secret key.
  • TFHE-rs. A pure Rust implementation of TFHE for boolean and small integer arithmetics over encrypted data.
  • aa-bundler. EIP-4337 (Account Abstraction) - Bundler implementation in Rust.
  • merkle_patricia_tree. Patricia Merkle Tree implementation in Rust.
  • heimdall-rs. An advanced EVM toolkit that aims to make dealing with smart contracts on EVM based chains easier.
  • cosmwasm-vm. Experimental, minimalistic, no_std friendly abstract virtual machine for CosmWasm contracts execution. Blog post: How we built a generalized CosmWasm VM.
  • zk-benchmarking. A suite of benchmarks designed to compare different zero-knowledge proof libraries. Blog post: ZK System Benchmarking.
  • ezkl. A library and command-line tool for doing inference for deep learning models and other computational graphs in a zk-SNARK.
  • poseidon-circuit. Poseidon hash circuit and primitives. It integrated several Poseidon hash schemes from Zcash and iden3 and support sponge progress for hashing messages at any length.
  • starknet_in_rust. A Rust implementation of Starknet by LambdaClass.
  • Aurora Engine. EVM on the NEAR Protocol.

 

Security Advisories

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

 

Most Active in January

Sui: 567 merged PRs, 94 closed issues, 124 open issues

Parity: 454 merged PRs, 150 closed issues, 149 open issues

Starkware: 452 merged PRs, 8 closed issues, 11 open issues

Solana: 401 merged PRs, 137 closed issues, 60 open issues

Fuel: 322 merged PRs, 259 closed issues, 134 open issues

 

Project Updates

Aleo

49 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 114 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 11 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Anoma

83 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 92 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 37 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Aptos

231 merged PRs (1), 110 closed issues (1), 56 open issues (1)

Casper

62 merged PRs (1, 2), 57 closed issues (1, 2), 36 open issues (1, 2)

COMIT

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

Concordium

60 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 23 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 21 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Conflux

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

DarkFi

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

Dfinity

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

Dusk Network

22 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 19 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 16 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Espresso Systems

31 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 32 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 27 open issues (1, 2)

Filecoin

221 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 195 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 153 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Findora

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

Fluence

119 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 0 closed issues (), 2 open issues (1, 2)

Fuel

322 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14), 259 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 134 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Golem

16 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 53 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 28 open issues (1)

Helium

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

Holochain

81 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 16 closed issues (1, 2), 6 open issues (1, 2)

Holochain reached a maturity milestone in January with its 0.1.0 beta release, which comes with a six-month freeze on breaking changes. They’ve also recently released the first version of a CLI-driven dApp scaffolding tool similar to Rails’ scaffolder.

IOTA

106 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 42 closed issues (1, 2), 39 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Maidsafe

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

Mina

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

MobileCoin

41 merged PRs (1), 6 closed issues (1), 8 open issues (1)

MultiversX

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

NEAR

160 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 41 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 58 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Nervos

54 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 19 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 7 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Oasis

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

Parity

454 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14), 150 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12), 149 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

Radix

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

Secret Network

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

Solana

401 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 137 closed issues (1, 2), 60 open issues (1, 2)

Subspace Labs

45 merged PRs (1), 18 closed issues (1), 17 open issues (1)

Sui

567 merged PRs (1), 94 closed issues (1), 124 open issues (1)

Zcash

64 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 48 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 38 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

 

Rust in Bitcoin

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AluVM

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

BDK

24 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 12 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 17 open issues (1, 2)

BitMask

16 merged PRs (1), 5 closed issues (1), 3 open issues (1)

Cyphernet

19 merged PRs (1, 2), 2 closed issues (1), 13 open issues (1, 2)

Electrs

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

Fedimint

173 merged PRs (1), 95 closed issues (1), 87 open issues (1)

LDK

51 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 19 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 17 open issues (1, 2)

LNP/BP

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

LNP WG

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

Nakamoto

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

Nomic

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

RGB

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

Rust Bitcoin

48 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 41 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 21 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Rust Simplicity

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

Talaia

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

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

 

Rust in Ethereum

Ethers-rs

67 merged PRs (1), 11 closed issues (1), 12 open issues (1)

Foundry

96 merged PRs (1), 75 closed issues (1), 83 open issues (1)

Lighthouse

34 merged PRs (1), 13 closed issues (1), 20 open issues (1)

Mir Protocol

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

Starkware

452 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 8 closed issues (1, 2), 11 open issues (1, 2)

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

 

Events

Feb 15-17 | Barcelona, Spain | European Blockchain Convention 2023

Feb 24 - Mar 5 | Denver, USA | ETHDenver 2023

Mar 9-19 | Online | Holochain Dev Training for Rust Developers

Mar 13 - Apr 7 | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | ZK Spring Residency in Vietnam

Mar 20-24 | Paris, France | Paris Blockchain Week

Mar 26 | Tokyo, Japan | FHE.org conference 2023

Mar 27-29 | Tokyo, Japan | RWC 2023

Apr 4 | Lisbon, Portugal | zkSummit9

May 1-5 | Bol, Brač, Croatia | Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2023

May 20-21 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ETHDam

Jun 3-5 | Prague, Czech Republic | Gateway to Cosmos 2023

Jun 17-20 | Paris, France | EthCC

Aug 28-30 | Palo Alto, CA, US | The Science of Blockchain Conference 2023

Sep 11-13 | Berlin, Germany | DappCon

 

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