Raman Shalupau, CEO of cryptocurrency recruitment firm CryptoJobsList, said that the Solana on-chain Meme craze that began in the first half of 2024 has led to an increase in demand for Rust engineers. Mr. Shalupau adds: "This is also being driven by broader technology trends, with Rust becoming a popular systems programming language and being adopted by many blockchain companies to write high-performance distributed systems."