RiB Newsletter #45

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Welcome to the #45 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #44.

 

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Dennis Zoma, djddo, François Garillot, Rodairos, 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…

microsoft/Nova and jules/supernova.

Nova is a recursive SNARK, and SuperNova is a refinement of Nova with more efficient proofs of individual program steps.

In SuperNova the cost of proving a step of the program is proportional only to the size of the circuit for that instruction; whereas in most SNARKS the cost of proving a single step is proportional to the sum of circuit sizes of all possible instructions.

Described in “Nova: Recursive Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Folding Schemes” and “SuperNova: Proving universal machine executions without universal circuits”.

While Nova is a Microsoft project, the above SuperNova implementation is not, though the Nova author has plans to publish a SuperNova implementation.

 

Interesting Things

News

  • Hello, Stylus. Arbitrum’s new programming enviroment that supports Rust, C, C++ and more. It’s not open sourced yet.

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 February

Sui: 471 merged PRs, 57 closed issues, 122 open issues

Solana: 419 merged PRs, 125 closed issues, 35 open issues

Parity: 414 merged PRs, 215 closed issues, 156 open issues

Fuel: 311 merged PRs, 169 closed issues, 119 open issues

Starkware: 286 merged PRs, 37 closed issues, 6 open issues

 

Project Updates

Aleo

61 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 9 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 10 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Anoma

53 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 32 closed issues (1, 2), 29 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Aptos

241 merged PRs (1), 67 closed issues (1), 41 open issues (1)

Casper

68 merged PRs (1, 2), 66 closed issues (1, 2), 67 open issues (1, 2)

COMIT

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

Concordium

45 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 18 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 26 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Conflux

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

DarkFi

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

Dfinity

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

Dusk Network

21 merged PRs (1, 2), 26 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 11 open issues (1, 2)

Espresso Systems

33 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 37 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 31 open issues (1, 2)

Filecoin

191 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 167 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 39 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Findora

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

Fluence

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

Fuel

311 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 169 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 119 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Golem

10 merged PRs (1), 24 closed issues (1, 2), 19 open issues (1, 2)

Helium

24 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 5 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 0 open issues

Holochain

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

IOTA

144 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 43 closed issues (1, 2), 34 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Maidsafe

114 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 9 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 7 open issues (1, 2)

Mina

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

MobileCoin

39 merged PRs (1), 13 closed issues (1), 15 open issues (1)

MultiversX

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

NEAR

142 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 35 closed issues (1, 2), 43 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Nervos

68 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 3 closed issues (1, 2), 9 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Oasis

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

Parity

414 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14), 215 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), 156 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

Radix

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

Secret Network

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

Solana

419 merged PRs (1, 2), 125 closed issues (1, 2), 35 open issues (1, 2)

Subspace Network

36 merged PRs (1), 26 closed issues (1), 18 open issues (1)

Sui

471 merged PRs (1), 57 closed issues (1), 122 open issues (1)

Zcash

56 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 38 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 36 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

 

Rust in Bitcoin

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BDK

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

BitMask

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

Cyphernet

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

Electrs

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

Fedimint

142 merged PRs (1, 2), 45 closed issues (1), 28 open issues (1)

LDK

38 merged PRs (1, 2), 14 closed issues (1), 12 open issues (1)

LNP/BP

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

LNP WG

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

Nomic

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

RGB

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

Rust Bitcoin

69 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 31 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 18 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Rust Simplicity

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

Talaia

6 merged PRs (1), 5 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

59 merged PRs (1), 14 closed issues (1), 14 open issues (1)

Foundry

66 merged PRs (1), 75 closed issues (1), 95 open issues (1)

Lighthouse

35 merged PRs (1, 2), 18 closed issues (1, 2), 28 open issues (1)

Mir Protocol

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

Starkware

286 merged PRs (1, 2), 37 closed issues (1, 2), 6 open issues (1, 2)

zkSync

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

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

 

Events

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

Sep 12-15 | Albuquerque, NM & Online | RustConf 2023

 

Careers

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More jobs can be found at Job Board.

 

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