Tezos Rust node: How to call the Tezos protocol from Rust

Juraj Selep
Aug 22, 2019 · 4 min read

The intent of this article is to describe why and how we have decided to implement communication between the existing Tezos node written in OCaml and our own node that we are building in Rust.

Because the Tezos protocol is implemented in OCaml. which we plan to use for message validation and processing, we had to first solve how OCaml and Rust will communicate between each other.

It would be possible to create some kind of network interface (REST, gRPC) to communicate between OCaml and Rust, but that would…

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