RiB Newsletter #58

Welcome to the #58 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #57.

 

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Daniel Savu, 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…

mopro

mopro is a toolkit for creating, building, testing, and running zero-knowledge proofs across multiple platforms and prooving systems.

 

Interesting Things

News

• Worldcoin Foundation Open Sources Core Components of the Orb’s Software. The source code orb-software.

Blog Posts

• Beyond Single-Core: Enhancing VM Efficiency in Parallel Environments
• Proof aggregation techniques

Papers

• Atomic and Fair Data Exchange via Blockchain
• Re-Randomized FROST
• DARE to agree: Byzantine Agreement with Optimal Resilience and Adaptive Communication
• Accountable Decryption made Formal and Practical (Revised)
• Exponent-VRFs and Their Applications

Projects

• mopro-cli. A CLI tool for client-side proving of Zero Knowledge Proofs.
• plonky2.5. Verify plonky3 proofs in plonky2.

 

Most Active in March

Starkware: 450 merged PRs, 22 closed issues, 33 open issues

Sui: 404 merged PRs, 223 closed issues, 3 open issues

Parity: 314 merged PRs, 118 closed issues, 134 open issues

Dfinity: 311 merged PRs, 9 closed issues, 13 open issues

zkSync Era: 304 merged PRs, 54 closed issues, 31 open issues

 

Project Updates

Aleo

73 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 31 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 99 open issues (1, 2)

• Product Announcement: Aleo IP Core

Anoma

33 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 37 closed issues (1, 2), 74 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Aptos

257 merged PRs (1, 2), 67 closed issues (1, 2), 58 open issues (1, 2)

Casper

57 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 27 closed issues (1, 2), 16 open issues (1, 2)

Chainflip

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

• Chainflip Development Update — March 21st 2024

COMIT

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

Concordium

43 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 43 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 10 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Conflux

3 merged PRs (1), 17 closed issues (1), 3 open issues (1)

DarkFi

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

Dfinity

311 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21), 9 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 13 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Dusk Network

81 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 68 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 32 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Espresso Systems

241 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), 114 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), 54 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Filecoin

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

• Filecoin Network Version 22 Dragon Upgrade
• FIL Dev Summit Track on Smart Storage & dApps
• Unveiling FIL-RetroPGF-1: Retroactively Funding Filecoin Public Goods

Findora

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

Fluence

129 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), 1 closed issues (1), 0 open issues

• Fluence Developer Updates ~ March 28th, 2024

Fuel

163 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), 97 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), 137 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)

Golem

38 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 21 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 26 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

• Introducing The Onboarding Portal: Your Gateway to Golem Network!
• Reputation System Gets a Turbo Boost: AgreementSelector Speeds Up Tasks using Top Performers

Grin

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

Helium

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

Holochain

118 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), 16 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 52 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

IOTA

96 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 122 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 15 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Bloom Wallet Launched
• Introducing IOTA Grants to Foster Ecosystem Growth

Lurk

55 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 19 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 26 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Maidsafe

120 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 7 closed issues (1), 13 open issues (1, 2)

Mina

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

• Upgrade Mechanism Testing Retrospective

MobileCoin

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

MultiversX

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

NEAR

278 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), 90 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), 90 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)

Nervos

63 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 27 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 4 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Oasis

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

Parity

314 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21), 118 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14), 134 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)

Radix

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

Secret Network

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

Solana

126 merged PRs (1, 2), 87 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 7 open issues (1, 2)

Soroban

41 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 20 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 29 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

• EVM to Soroban Understanding Data Types
• Auth (-entication) and (-orization) in blockchain
• The Soroban Audit Bank: Fostering a Secure Smart Contract Ecosystem
• Smart Contracts Made Simple: Dogfooding Soroban at the SDF
• Yield-Bearing Assets on Stellar: Unlocking Potential with Soroban
• How to develop securely on Soroban? Storage types with unbounded data

Spacemesh

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

Subspace Network

78 merged PRs (1, 2), 30 closed issues (1, 2), 23 open issues (1, 2)

Sui

404 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 223 closed issues (1), 3 open issues (1, 2)

• Sui Overflow: Sui’s first global virtual hackathon
• Let’s Move Sui Helps Developers who want to Move on Sui
• Scaling Out Sui Execution with Pilotfish
• Create and Execute PTBs on Sui with the Sui CLI

Zcash

88 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 43 closed issues (1), 25 open issues (1, 2)

• ECC Transparency Report for Q3 2023
• How Does Zcash Work?

 

Rust in Bitcoin

For discussion join the Rust in Bitcoin Telegram group.

AluVM

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

BDK

28 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 37 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 11 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Bitcoin Protocol

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

Bitswap

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

Cyphernet

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

Electrs

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

Fedimint

211 merged PRs (1), 45 closed issues (1), 47 open issues (1)

LDK

52 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 9 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 19 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

LNP/BP

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

Nakamoto

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

Nomic

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

RGB

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

Rust Bitcoin

68 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 32 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 29 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Rust Payjoin

13 merged PRs (1), 8 closed issues (1), 4 open issues (1)

Rust Simplicity

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

Strict Types

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

Talaia

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

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

 

Rust in Ethereum

Ethers-rs

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

Foundry

199 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 160 closed issues (1, 2), 121 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Lighthouse

61 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 31 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 28 open issues (1, 2, 3)

• Inactivity leak under MaxEB (EIP-7251)

Polygon Zero

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

Reth

297 merged PRs (1), 151 closed issues (1), 82 open issues (1)

Rust Web3

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

Starkware

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

• Stwo Prover: The next-gen of STARK scaling is here
• Cairo v2.6.0 is out!
• Coding in Cairo

zkSync Era

304 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20), 54 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4), 31 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

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

 

Events

Apr 5-26 | Online | Ethereum Async hackathon: Scaling Ethereum 2024

Apr 8-12 | Paris, France | Paris Blockchain Week

Apr 10-11 | Paris, France | Sui Basecamp

Apr 10 | Athens, Greece | zkSummit11

Apr 11 | Athens, Greece | ZK Accelerate

Apr 21 | Online | Sui hackathon: Suii Overflow

Apr 22-25 | Athens, Greece | EuroSys 2024

May 3-5 | Sydney, Australia | ETHGlobal Sydney

May 18-19 | Brisbane, Australia | AI + Web3 Convention

May 20-Jun 20 | Singapore | The Polkadot Blockchain Academy

May 21-23 | Berlin, Germany | DappCon

May 24-26 | Berlin, Germany | ETHBerlin

May 26-30 | Zurich, Switzerland | Eurocrypt 2024

May 29-31 | Austin, US | Consensus

May 31-Jun 2 | Prague, Czech Republic | ETH Prague

Jun 5-6 | Santa Clara, US | Blockchain Expo North America

Jun 19-24 | Zurich, Switzerland | RustFest Zürich

Jul 4-7 | Istanbul, Turkey | Blockchain Expo World

Jul 8-11 | Brussels, Belgium | EthCC

Jul 12–14 | Brussels, Belgium | ETHGlobal Brussels

Aug 18-22 | Santa Barbara, US | Crypto 2024

Aug 28-29 | Tokyo, Japan | WebX 2024

Sep 10-13 | Montreal, Canada | RustConf 2024

Nov 12-15 | Bangkok, Thailand | DevCon 7

 

Careers

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Worldcoin | US, Germany

• Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Germany)
• Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Rust (Munich, Germany)
• Embedded Platform Lead, Orb Software (Munich, Germany)
• Senior Staff / Principal Engineer, Orb Backend (San Francisco/Munich)
• Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Internal Tools (Munich, Germany)
• Staff Rust Engineer, Protocol (San Francisco/Munich)
• Senior Rust Developer, Protocol (San Francisco/Munich)
• Senior Application Security Engineer (San Francisco, USA)
• Senior Security Operations Engineer (San Francisco, USA)
• Senior Device Security Engineer (San Francisco, USA)

More jobs can be found at Job Board.

 

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