RiB Newsletter #47

Welcome to the #47 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #46.

 

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Andrew Dibble, Calin Martinconi, Chan De Silva, 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…

zkWasm.

zkWasm is a project that runs a WebAssembly runtime as a ZKSNARK circuit. This should eventually allow for proofs of execution for programs targeting wasm so that e.g. validators don’t all have to re-execute the same transactions; they instead just verify the proof that someone executed the transaction correctly. This is similar to RISC-0 (for RISC-V) and the various zero-knowledge EVMs.

 

Interesting Things

Blog Posts

• Exciting times at the intersection of Compilers and Applied Cryptography: CAIRO and MLIR
• All you wanted to know about Plonk
• zkWASM: The Future of Scalable Computation in Blockchain
• zkWASM, zkOracle and Programmability: Pioneering Scalable and Secure Blockchain Solutions
• Hardware Review: GPUs , FPGAs and Zero Knowledge Proofs
• Bridging the Gap: How ZK-SNARKs Bring Transparency to Private ML Models with zkml
• Do You Want Quality Code? Learn How to Use Differential Fuzzers!

Papers

• HyperNova: Recursive arguments for customizable constraint systems

Projects

• zkPoEX enables white hat hackers to report live vulnerabilities in smart contracts while maintaining the confidentiality of the exploit, facilitating efficient communication and collaboration between hackers and project owners for a more secure DeFi ecosystem. Blog post: Revolutionizing DeFi Security: ZK Proof of Exploit on RISC Zero.
• Ola. A high-level language for implementing smart contracts. From the outset, it is designed to be a zk-friendly programming language. Blog post: A Programmable Privacy Platform for Ethereum: Understanding Ola’s Design Principles and Technical Features

 

Most Active in April

Sui: 759 merged PRs, 140 closed issues, 102 open issues

Parity: 345 merged PRs, 178 closed issues, 150 open issues

Aptos: 310 merged PRs, 71 closed issues, 54 open issues

Solana: 295 merged PRs, 56 closed issues, 23 open issues

Starkware: 290 merged PRs, 33 closed issues, 19 open issues

 

Project Updates

Aleo

69 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 16 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 7 open issues (1, 2, 3)

• Fixed-Point Arithmetic in LEO
• Pioneer the Future of Private Machine Learning with Aleo’s zkML Initiative
• Neural Network Inference with Leo
• Loan decisions with neural networks using Leo

Anoma

59 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 29 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 14 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Aptos

310 merged PRs (1), 71 closed issues (1), 54 open issues (1)

• Quorum Store: How Consensus Horizontally Scales on the Aptos Blockchain
• Aptos Labs brings Web3 to Gaming with its new SDK for Unity developers

Casper

80 merged PRs (1, 2), 80 closed issues (1, 2), 60 open issues (1, 2)

COMIT

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

Concordium

38 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 13 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 10 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Conflux

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

• Monthly Progress Report — April 2023

DarkFi

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

Dfinity

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

• Eliminating Smart Contract Bugs with TLA+
• Announcing the Internet Computer BUIDL Bitcoin Hackathon, powered by Encode Club

Dusk Network

9 merged PRs (1, 2), 10 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 8 open issues (1, 2)

• Testnet DayLight | Release Cycle Update #19

Espresso Systems

34 merged PRs (1, 2), 20 closed issues (1, 2), 17 open issues (1, 2)

• Sequencer Decentralization and Liveness

Filecoin

104 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), 27 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 18 open issues (1, 2, 3)

• Indexer Scalability for Ingest-heavy Workload
• The FVM Imaginarium: Developer Tooling, Hackathons and other Opportunities for Builders

Findora

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

Fluence

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

Fuel

214 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 147 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 112 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Golem

21 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 13 closed issues (1, 2), 21 open issues (1, 2)

• Golem Portal has been launched!

Grin

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

Helium

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

• A New Era for Helium Begins with Upgrade to Solana Blockchain
• It’s here: The Helium Network Migrates to Solana Today

Holochain

120 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 15 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 5 open issues (1, 2)

• Holochain 0.1 Matures

IOTA

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

• Progress Report Q1 2023

Maidsafe

115 merged PRs (1, 2), 42 closed issues (1), 23 open issues (1)

Mina

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

• The State of Zero Knowledge 2023 Report
• Unlocking the Power of Privacy: How Developers Can Leverage Homomorphic Encryption and Zero-Knowledge Proofs

MobileCoin

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

MultiversX

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

• MultiversX Rust game-dev tutorial published on CryptoZombies coding school

NEAR

114 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 29 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 30 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

• NEAR Blockchain Operating System is Now Live on Near.org
• NEAR Foundation Launches NEAR Horizon

Nervos

80 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 29 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 7 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Oasis

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

• 4 Ways to Compare Trusted Execution Environments and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
• Oasis March 2023 Engineering Update

Parity

345 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), 178 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12), 150 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

Radix

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

Secret Network

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

Solana

295 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 56 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 23 open issues (1, 2)

Subspace Network

55 merged PRs (1), 23 closed issues (1), 11 open issues (1)

• Dilithium: Subspace Consensus v2

Sui

759 merged PRs (1), 140 closed issues (1), 102 open issues (1)

• Subset-optimized BLS Multi-signature with Key Aggregation

Zcash

62 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 38 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 19 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

• New Release 5.5.0
• Experimental Zebra progress bars
• A Simple Threat Model for Zcash Shielded Hardware Wallets

 

Rust in Bitcoin

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AluVM

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

BDK

16 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 6 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 13 open issues (1, 2, 3)

BitMask

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

Cyphernet

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

Electrs

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

Fedimint

159 merged PRs (1), 84 closed issues (1), 52 open issues (1)

LDK

56 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 24 closed issues (1), 29 open issues (1)

LNP/BP

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

LNP WG

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

MyCitadel

6 merged PRs (1), 17 closed issues (1), 23 open issues (1)

Nakamoto

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

Nomic

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

RGB

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

Rust Bitcoin

31 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 10 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 16 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Rust Simplicity

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

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

 

Rust in Ethereum

Ethers-rs

55 merged PRs (1), 13 closed issues (1), 7 open issues (1)

Foundry

46 merged PRs (1), 56 closed issues (1), 78 open issues (1)

Lighthouse

15 merged PRs (1), 22 closed issues (1), 23 open issues (1, 2)

Mir Protocol

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

Reth

273 merged PRs (1), 83 closed issues (1), 52 open issues (1)

Rust Ethereum

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

Rust Web3

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

Starkware

290 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 33 closed issues (1, 2), 19 open issues (1, 2, 3)

• All roads lead to Giza, Starknet Roadmap and Cairo Book
• What are Storage Proofs and how can they improve Oracles?
• StarkEx V5.0 for Spot Trading is Here!

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

 

Events

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

May 15-20 | Chicago, IL, US | zkWeek

May 19-23 | Montenegro | EDCON 2023

May 20-21 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ETHDam

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

Jun 9-10 | Prague, Czech Republic | ETHPrague

Jun 17-20 | Paris, France | EthCC

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

Sep 5-6 | Seoul, Korea | Korea Blockchain Week

Sep 11-13 | Berlin, Germany | DappCon

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

 

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