nearcore

> Yes, in fact I see hardly any cryptocurrency stuff with rust. Really? Solana [0] a top 10 market cap cryptocurrency is written in Rust and so is its smart contracts. NEAR Protocol is another [1] one as well as Sui [2] and Polkadot [3] written and using Rust. [0] https://github.com/solana-labs/solana [1] https://github.com/near/nearcore [2] https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui [3] https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk

https://github.com/nearprotocol/nearcore > NEAR's purpose is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. > To achieve this purpose, NEAR provides a developer platform where developers and entrepreneurs can create apps that put users back in control of their data and assets, which is the foundation of "Open Web" movement.[1] > One of the components of NEAR is NEAR Protocol, an infrastructure for server-less applications and smart contracts powered by blockchain. NEAR Protocol is built to deliver usability and scalability of modern PaaS like Firebase at fraction of prices that blockchains like Ethereum charge. Nightshade: Near Protocol Sharding Design (July 2019) Alex Skidanov @AlexSkidanov alex@nearprotocol.com Illia Polosukhin @ilblackdragon illia@nearprotocol.com https://near.org/downloads/Nightshade.pdf [1]

I am working on one https://github.com/solana-labs/solana But also take a look at the most promising sharding project: https://github.com/nearprotocol/nearcore Two complete different approaches.