Application of the Week

This week’s featured application is astrocore, an implementation of Stellar-core in rust, developed by Arkweid, nebolsin and charlie-wasp. Congratulations!

This is a very early stage project (so if you just furiously typed: rustup update , git clone , cargo run , hold your 🐎). So far they have begun with a wip implementation of the networking/overlay subsystem. This is certainly a very ambitious project, nevertheless, a huge step forward for the Stellar ecosystem as a whole… as they say, one small step for stroopy, one giant leap for all lumenauts.

Regardless of the eventual completion of this implementation, this trio of rustaceans is already moving the ecosystem forward by instigating a process for defining a spec for Stellar-core. This is quite significant!

If you know rust and are interested in helping out, there are a few open issues here to get started with.

Interested in promoting your own project, or another exciting project in the ecosystem? If so, please make a submission here.