RiB Newsletter #55

January 03, 2024

Welcome to the #55 edition of Rust in Blockchain, the monthly newsletter about Rust, distributed systems, cryptography, and other industry topics. Previous: #54.

Thanks

Thanks to contributors: Aulee, Hunter Beast, 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…

iroh.

iroh is a protocol for syncing and moving bytes over peer-to-peer QUIC connections. Data is verified in transit with blake3 verified streaming via the bao-tree crate.

sendme is a simple file transfer program demonstrating the use of iroh.

Interesting Things

Blog Posts

Papers

Proof of Compliance for Anonymous, Unlinkable Messages
COMMON: Order Book with Privacy
Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT Latency And Robustness. Improvements to Bullshark.

Projects

arkworks-bridge. Importing R1CS and witness files into arkworks via json.
bria. Transaction batching and UTXO management for Bitcoin.

Most Active in December

Sui: 321 merged PRs, 169 closed issues, 2 open issues

Dfinity: 313 merged PRs, 3 closed issues, 8 open issues

Starkware: 311 merged PRs, 8 closed issues, 9 open issues

Parity: 288 merged PRs, 100 closed issues, 80 open issues

zkSync Era: 250 merged PRs, 6 closed issues, 15 open issues

Project Updates

Aleo

72 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4), 2119 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 2830 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Anoma

57 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 36 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 12 open issues (1, 2)

Aptos

221 merged PRs (1, 2), 41 closed issues (1, 2), 52 open issues (1, 2)

Aggregators: How sequential workloads are executed in parallel on the Aptos Blockchain

Casper

6 merged PRs (1), 8 closed issues (1), 28 open issues (1)

2023 in Review: A Remarkable Year for Casper

Chainflip

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

Swapping Pre Release

COMIT

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

Concordium

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

Conflux

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

Monthly Progress Report — December 2023

DarkFi

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

Development Update Q423

Dfinity

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

Dusk Network

84 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), 42 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), 20 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4)

Release Cycle #30

Espresso Systems

144 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 92 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 47 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Espresso Systems and Offchain Labs release R&D roadmap for Decentralized Timeboost

Filecoin

54 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 10 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 9 open issues (1, 2, 3)

Filecoin Network Version 21 Watermelon Upgrade

Findora

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

Fluence

169 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), 0 closed issues, 0 open issues

Fuel

103 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12), 91 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), 113 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Golem

26 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 15 closed issues (1, 2), 12 open issues (1, 2)

Yagna Updates: Enhancing Network Stability and Introducing a New Payment Driver

Grin

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

Helium

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

Holochain

75 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), 11 closed issues (1, 2), 3 open issues (1, 2)

2023 Year in Review

IOTA

68 merged PRs (1, 2, 3), 30 closed issues (1, 2, 3), 21 open issues (1, 2, 3)

IOTA 2.0: All You Need to Know

Maidsafe

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

Mina

19 merged PRs (1), 1 closed issues (1), 9 open issues (1)

MobileCoin

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

MultiversX

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

NEAR

146 merged PRs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), 47 closed issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12), 39 open issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)