Rust’s advantage for blockchains
Blockchains and blockchain-related technologies that use Rust have an edge over others and this section is dedicated to exploring this aspect. Let’s learn about how these technologies benefit from using Rust.
Blockchains that use Rust
Some of today’s most popular blockchains, such as Solana, NEAR, and Polkadot, use Rust primarily. Polkadot even has a framework called Substrate that can be used to build new blockchains (we have a chapter dedicated to it – that is, Chapter 10, Hands-On with Substrate, and this is the framework that was used to build Polkadot itself.
Many new, highly innovative blockchains such as Aptos and Sui also use Rust. In Chapter 1, Blockchains with Rust, we learned how Aptos uses parallel processing at the Layer 1 level to make the network extremely scalable.
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