Why Rust is used for blockchain?

Rust-Lightning is a Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust.

As of the time of writing, Solana is ranked seventh in market value on CoinMarketCap, a popular index of cryptocurrencies. It’s certainly the highest-ranked blockchain that uses Rust.

Rust also doesn’t have a garbage collector, which means there would be no indeterministic incident (caused by the language) during the runtime. These characteristics make Rust an ideal choice for blockchains where reliability and efficiency matter a lot .