I currently do consulting for a well-known company in the cryptocurrency space, and since I have done, I've noticed that Rust's adoption in this industry is far, far higher than anywhere else. I regularly get inquiries to do work in Rust there, but basically nowhere else.
Even if this is technically true (and I'm not really convinced that it is) it is not practically meaningful.
Do you have any links or an explanation that elaborates on this?
WebAssembly has also been on an upward trajectory in this space, and so there’s some synergy there too.
* Rust meets basic constraints (performance, reliability)
* A few early movers chose rust, and they likely share information and libraries, so it makes sense to just go in on it
Given that cryptocurrency is a fairly young space, having everyone leveraging the same tooling probably increases productivity. One day someone might say "We can get more productive if we leverage Language X, let's invest there", but until then everyone else is probably thinking "Oh, the libraries I need are in Rust, guess I'll use Rust".