Announcing the Rust Innovation Lab

During the opening of RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Washington,
the Rust Foundation announced

a new initiative to provide financial and administrative support to open-source Rust projects. The first project to benefit from the new Rust Innovation Lab is

Rustls, an implementation of TLS in Rust. The foundation welcomes inquiries from other projects. Dr. Rebecca Rumbul, Executive Director of the Rust Foundation said:

Rustls is hopefully the first of many really good projects that will find a home in the foundation.