Elixir for blockchain projects?

Ha, there was a time where it seemed that every time a job was posted in the jobs sections that it felt impossible to find Elixir work in anything other than crypto/blockchain. That’s not so much the case anymore but if you scroll back a bit through there you will find a bunch of companies that use(d?) it for that.

I personally have zero experience, your question just struck a chord, lol.

Also, welcome to Elixir Forum!

Yes, absolutely!

https://github.com/wowica/blocks

I know this project and a few related projects through a friend mine, not sure if he’s hanging out here in the forum.

Welcome to the Elixir Community!

That’s interesting to hear! I guess Elixir and blockchain had a bit of a moment back then. I’m still figuring out how Elixir fits in, especially for stuff like dApps with heavy transactions or oracles.

And thanks for the welcome!

it seems like the scalability and concurrency features could be a perfect fit for decentralized apps.

I think the BEAM is a great fit for building blockchain infrastructure. Its main features are perfectly aligned with what is expected from a blockchain network - highly concurrent, fault-tolerant, and resilient distributed systems.

I have been working on a few Elixir based projects for the Cardano blockchain including the “light” explorer that @rhcarvalho has mentioned as well as Xogmios, the Elixir library used under the hood:

Hey, I’m new here, so I don’t want to come off like I’m pushing something, but I think there’s a good opportunity to explore exactly what you’re talking about.

There’s a hackathon starting with CODEBEAM that combines blockchain with Erlang and Elixir. The hackathon might be a good opportunity to see how Elixir’s scalability and concurrency can fit into a blockchain environment.

I know blockchain isn’t for everyone… but if you’re curious about it, the top prize is $15k USD, so it could be worth checking out. Here’s the submission guide if you want to learn more:

CodeBeam 2024 Hackathon

Let me know whether this aligns with your ideas or if there’s something specific you think Elixir could bring to dApp development. Cheers!

As an endeavor to learning blockchain, I’ve started to study the repository, and also trying to make some small contributions.

thanks mate, I will take a look at it

Seeking thoughts on smart contracts on Elixir and Orb - I can provide in the future an option of writing smart contracts on Elixir on the Near Blockchain, if it’s interesting for u pls participate in the poll on the Github