RiB Newsletter #52

October 04, 2023

Welcome to the #52 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #51.

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Farhad Shabani, 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…

The Polkadot Blockchain Academy Book.

This is the recently released course content for the Polkadot Blockchain Academy. Lots of background on topics that are not Polkadot-specific, including cryptography, game theory, blockchains and smart contracts.

Interesting Things

Papers

Projects

continuation-batcher. A standalone proof compress & batch tool for zkWASM guest and host circuits.
mina bridge. Bridge from Mina to Ethereum.
Botanix. A port of Ethereum to run on Bitcoin. Reportedly written in Rust, but no source yet.

Videos

Proceedings from The Zero Knowledge Summit.
Awesome Bitcoin Developer Tools: Devimint. Appears to be written in Rust.

Most Active in September

Parity 384 merged PRs, 178 closed issues, 182 open issues

Sui: 368 merged PRs, 48 closed issues, 6 open issues

Dfinity: 368 merged PRs, 15 closed issues, 6 open issues

Solana: 308 merged PRs, 60 closed issues, 27 open issues

Reth: 275 merged PRs, 135 closed issues, 52 open issues

Project Updates

Aleo

127 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 15 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 16 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

The power of secrets: Zero-knowledge proofs and game development

Anoma

85 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 28 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 17 open issues (1)

Aptos

273 merged PRs (1, 2), 27 closed issues (1), 51 open issues (1)

Casper

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

COMIT

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

Concordium

20 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 10 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 15 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

DarkFi

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

Dfinity

368 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18), 15 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 6 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Dusk Network

41 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 24 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 28 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

The Dusk Report 2023

Espresso Systems

105 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), 118 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 88 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Filecoin

117 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 61 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 28 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Revolutionizing Filecoin Storage with Synthetic-PoRep: Cutting Overheads and Boosting Efficiency

Beta-4, Fuel’s Fourth Public Testnet

The Power of DePIN: Helium Network and Mycelium Testbed

Introducing Agora Of The MultiversX: Protocol Governance Forum

384 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33), 178 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26), 182 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)