It was another month in 2020, like previous months in 2020. Stuck inside, hacking away.
We don’t see a consistent blockchain Rust theme to highlight this month, but interesting new Rust crypto and blockchain projects continue to be launched. They are noted in the “Interesting Things” section.
Oasis launched what will probably become their mainnet. Congrats to them!
Ethereum 2 keeps creeping closer, and it looks like Lighthouse, in Rust, might be the fastest implementation.
The Holochain team asked that we highlight the Holochain DevCamp, running until August 27th. Now is your opportunity to learn more about the project. There are a number of other online blockchain hackathons going on this summer, noted in our “Events” section. Could be a good way to spend time this summer instead of going to the beach.
Well, anyway, keep on hacking.
Thanks
This edition of RiB was produced with contributions from Darosior, James Waugh, Ken Shamir, Paulii Good, Taylor Lee, 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. Either submit a PR to the #14 draft, or Tweet @rust_blockchain.
Project Spotlight
Each month we like to shine a light on a notable Rust blockchain project. This month that project is…
electrs
is a server for the Electrum Bitcoin wallet, written in Rust. Electrum is a light wallet that needs to connect to a server to transact with the Bitcoin network. Although there are public Electrum servers, and they are safe to transact with, they can deanonymize users, so it might be prudent to run one’s own Electrum server, like electrs
, or bwt (also written in Rust).
As mentioned recently in a blog post, Blockstream, one of the primary Bitcoin developers, uses electrs
in its block explorer, esplora, which is live at blockstream.info.
Interesting Things
News
- Enigma partners with IBM on “SafeTrace”, a contact tracing app. Enigma is a Rust blockchain with private computation.
- Oasis launched The Amber Network, and the new white paper The Oasis Blockchain Platform.
- New RustCrypto releases: aead
, block-cipher
, crypto-mac
, digest
, signature
, stream-cipher
, and more!
Blog Posts
- Evaluating Ethereum L2 Scaling Solutions: A Comparison Framework
- Introducing Covalent’s DeFi SDK – An integrated approach to value your digital assets with 5 lines of code
- How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin.
Papers
- Bulletproofs+. A new paper with improvements to bulletproofs.
Projects
- blst. An implementation of BLS12-381. In C, with Rust bindings.
- celo-bls-snark-rs. Implements SNARK-friendly BLS signatures over BLS12-377 and BW6-761.
- Candid, an interface description language (IDL) for interacting with canisters (also known as services or actors) running on the Internet Computer.
- Crate Crypto. Open source cryptographic implementations. Mostly from IACR.
- ethcontract-rs. Generate type-safe bindings for interacting with Ethereum contracts.
- Neptune. Neptune is a Rust implementation of the Poseidon hash function tuned for Filecoin.
- Nervos CKB
- poly-commit. Univariate Polynomial Commitments. A Rust library that implements (univariate) polynomial commitment schemes.
- riemann-rs. Bitcoin-oriented dev toolboxes for native and browser apps.
- Sigma Rust. Rust implementation of ErgoScript cryptocurrency scripting language.
- The Stacks 2.0 blockchain implementation, an open-membership replicated state machine produced by the coordination of a non-enumerable set of peers.
- Starcoin. A Layered Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Blockchain System.
Videos
- ZkVM: About the motocrab. ZkVM is a zero-knowledge VM created by Stellar.
Read more: https://rustinblockchain.org/newsletters/2020-07-01-stuck-inside-hacking-away/
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