I’ve been working on a Julia Web3 package for a little while. It’s still in early stages; I’m working on an account manager example to drive development (it’s like a simple contacts list editor).
The idea is to hook Julia up to existing EVMs, not to write an EVM in Julia. Like if you need to use Ethereum smart contracts in a Julia program.
Seems not much has changed in the last couple of years. I was doing a landscape analysis (to setup for https://github.com/Julia-Blockchain) on the available tools and it seems like the ones mentioned here are still the only options (and development seems to have slowed on most, not passing judgment, just my quick analysis).
Are there any other packages folks have seen or used in the same vein?
Yep, I’m also looking for the same, please mention here if somebody has already started/is midway into building a component for blockchain.
Is “Julia-Foo” a new naming convention for Julia GitHub orgs? A lot of the existing ones seem to be “JuliaFoo”.
In my case, JuliaBlockchain was already taken.
I’m also considering Blockchain development in Julia.
Maybe a first aproach could be to implement the elements needed for Dapps (decentralized applications) development in Ethereum / Solidity (as there is a lot of benchmarks and tutorials for this protocol).
This needs 3 main components:
Regarding the application component, we have all we need thanks to @essenciary with the Genie Framework.
I’m starting considering first a py-solc-x equivalent in Julia.
@tlorans @logankilpatrick @hgeorgako I have been bugging the Cosmos SDK team for some support to implement the SDK in Julia as well as Go (which it is currently implemented in). I would happily help gather a team and lead the way to do that. You can build on top of Tendermint Core with any language so the consensus and networking layers would be handled there.
I believe the future of Defi and finance in general is Julia. I am currently building a team that is building a Cosmos SDK chain that plans on eventually supporting Julia based smart contracts but for specific purposes.
Not sure how much support there is currently for this though. I feel like using Julia would help influx further traditional finance folks into Defi.
Julia support would be good
This would be great, I think that maybe building a DSL on top of julia directly targeting the EVM opcodes
(or Yul-IR) could be a better alternative than a wrapper for solidity, as we’re not constrained to solidity expressiveness.
Also, there is now TrueBit on Ethereum which allows to run WASM instructions, and some L2s like Optimism also allows WASM execution. It seems the a lot of finance derivatives projects are targeting L2s, so it would be great to see compatibilities with the eth ecosystem.
Edit: there is also EVM-LLVM
I have nothing to do with blockchain and do not have interests therein. I only stumbled across that title when scrolling the topics. But I remembered an article about blockchain, which mentioned viewpoints dealing with some “be careful” arguments not in general but for some very special reasons.
Unfortunately that article is in german, but you may look at the machine based translation to english of it. Of course that machine translation isn’t perfect, but you can get the idea behind it. More or less it states “A poisoned promise”.
The article is far more against the Web 3.0 (or what the author believes to be the Web 3.0) than against blockchains. The idea of blockchain is neat, maybe even genius, but as many technologies, immediately everyone started trying using it for absolutely everything even if it does not make any sense whatsoever.
I have read a similar article in English recently, that is a little more technical, and is also critical of the Web 3.0 idea. I do recommend its read, it can be found in: Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> My first impressions of web3
Thank you for your viewpoint, a lot of arguments of the moxie post are true, but are about specific applications and not the overall technology. I think that the fact that everything in blockchain is not perfect is not a sufficient reason to prevent people from developing on it.
Also, blockchain and web3 are not the same thing, when web3 is not something that exists and is more of a marketing stunt, blockchains are very real and working.
Didn’t I say exactly the same thing in my post?
Sorry, I read to fast I thought the last 2 comments were from the same person 
Hello guys, any update on this topic recently?
Ok I’ll bite: What could you use blockchain for space mission operations?
(from someone who knows about that domain but is pretty naive about blockchain)
You can use a chain of blocks for a space elevator. This will make space travel so much cheaper 