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### Using Rust to build distributed systems and Wasm smart contracts
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## Agenda
- What is NEAR Protocol and why Rust
- What smart contracts are and how they fit in
- How Rust is used to build to Wasm
- Ranked Choice Voting application
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## What is NEAR
https://near.org/
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### Why we ♥️ Rust
- Memory safety
- Performance
- Reliability
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### What is a smart contract?
- Programs that can be run on a blockchain
- Trustless applications
- Composable
- Any contract can be interacted with asynchronously
- Permissionless by default
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### Wasm VM
https://webassembly.org/
- Performant
- Safe
- Deterministic
- Can compile from common programming languages
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### Architecture
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### Minimal Wasm smart contract
```wat
(module
(func (export "some_function")
nop
)
)
```
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### Ranked Choice Voting Contract
https://github.com/austinabell/rcv-near
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### Thank you!
You can find me on
- GitHub @austinabell
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