Awesome Blockchain Rust
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Awesome Blockchain Rust
Useful components for building blockchains in Rust. include: cryptography, distributed, p2p, consensus, etc
Blockchains
- Aleo.
Decentralized operating system for zero-knowledge applications.
- Aleph Zero.
DAG, PoS, snark smart contracts (substrate based).
- Anoma.network.
PoS blockchain with privacy.
- Aptos Network.
Building the safest and most scalable Layer 1 blockchain..
- Bitcoin Cash.
A library for creating and parsing Bitcoin Cash transactions.
- Casper.
A decentralized L1 PoS blockchain designed to accelerate enterprise and developer adoption.
- Chainflip.
Native Cross-Chain Swaps.
- CITA.
A high performance blockchain kernel for enterprise users.
- CodeChain.
Programmable multi-asset chain.
- Concordium.
Privacy centric (zk) PoS chain, yet with built in identities and rust smart contracts.
- Conflux.
The Rust implementation of Conflux protocol.
- Darwinia.
Relay chain of Darwinia Network, can connect to Polkadot as
parachain in Polkadot Model.
- Dusk.network.
Privacy PoS using zk (plonk).
- Enigma secures the
decentralized web.
- Ethrex.
Minimalist, fast and modular implementation of the Ethereum protocol in Rust. L1 and L2 execution client.
- MultiversX.
Sharded Smart Contracts execution platform with a PoS consensus mechanism.
- Exonum.
An extensible open-source framework for creating
private/permissioned blockchain applications.
- Forest.
An implementation of Filecoin written in Rust.
- Fuel.
Rust full node implementation of the Fuel protocol.
- Gear.
Computational component of Polkadot network.
- Grin.
Minimal implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol.
- Holochain.
The core Holochain framework written in rust, a container, and
hdk-rust library for writing Zomes.
- Interledger.
An easy-to-use, high-performance Interledger implementation written
in Rust.
- Internet Computer Protocol (ICP).
The world’s first blockchain that runs at web speed and can increase
its capacity without bound.
- Internet of People.
Decentralized software stack that provides the building blocks and
tools to support a decentralized society.
- Libra.
Global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions
of people.
- Lighthouse.
Fast and secure Ethereum 2.0 client.
- Namada.
Proof-of-Stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy.
- NEAR.
NEAR Protocol - scalable and usable blockchain.
- Nervos CKB.
Nervos CKB is a public permissionless blockchain, the common
knowledge layer of Nervos network.
- NYM.
Selective privacy via a mixnet preventing metadata analysis.
- Nomic.
Nomic is a high-performance Bitcoin sidechain which is part of the
Cosmos network.
- Mina Protocol.
A rust implementation of the mina succinct blockchain.
- Mir Protocol.
A succinct blockchain powered by zero-knowledge proofs. (plonk based)
- OpenEthereum.
The Ethereum Rust client
- Parity Bitcoin.
The Parity Bitcoin client.
- Parity Ethereum.
The fast, light, and robust EVM and WASM client.
- Parity Zcash.
Rust implementation of Zcash protocol.
- Polkadot.
Polkadot Node Implementation.
- Polymesh.
The Polymesh blockchain (built on Substrate) is an identity orientated chain
for the issuance, lifecycle management and settlement of regulated securities.
- Radix.
Sharded smart contract DeFi platform.
- RsNano.
A rust port of Nano: the eco-friendly & feeless digital currency
- Secret Network.
A privacy-first blockchain that uses Rust to enable "secret contracts", ensuring data is encrypted while being processed on-chain.
- Setheum.
SETHEUM : “Secure Evergreen Truthful Heterogeneous Economically Unbiased Market”
is an Ethical DeFi-friendly Blockchain (built on Substrate) working on achieving
mass adoption, security, scalability, affordability, inclusivity and ethical DeFi Governance.
- Shasper.
Parity Shasper beacon chain implementation using the Substrate
framework.
- Solana.
Blockchain Rebuilt for Scale.
- Stacks 2.0.
Proof of Transfer blockchain from Blockstack.
- Sui Network.
A next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low
latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move
programming language.
- Tari.
The Tari Digital Assets Protocol.
- Tendermint.
Tendermint is a high-performance blockchain consensus engine for
Byzantine fault tolerant applications.
- Witnet.
Open source implementation of Witnet decentralized oracle network
protocol in Rust.
- xx-network.
Post-quantum blockchain, mixnet privacy preventing metadata analysis. (Substrate rust+go)
- Zebra.
An ongoing Rust implementation of a Zcash node.
- Zero-chain.
A privacy-preserving blockchain on Substrate.
Blockchain Frameworks
- Substrate.
The platform for blockchain innovators.
- slingshot.
A new blockchain architecture under active development, with a
strong focus on scalability, privacy and safety.
- Tendermint ABCI.
Tendermint ABCI server, written in the Rust programming language.
- Orga.
A high-performance state machine engine designed for
Tendermint-based blockchain applications.
- Anchor
is a framework for Solana's Sealevel runtime providing several convenient developer tools for writing smart contracts.
- Trident.
Fuzzing framework for Solana smart contracts.
Cross-Chain
- AtomicDEX.
Cross-chain and cross-protocol p2p orderbook based decentralized exchange and interoperability bridge (self-custodial).
- Comit.
An open protocol facilitating trustless cross-blockchain applications.
- ibc-rs.
Rust implementation of the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol.
- Hermes.
Rust implementation of an Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) relayer.
- Hyperlane.
Framework for permissionless, modular interoperability. The offchain clients are written in Rust, as well as the smart contracts for Solana VM and CosmWasm.
Virtual Machines
- Bithoven.
A High-Level, Imperative Language for Bitcoin Smart Contracts, featuring an LR(1) parser with static analysis for compile-time safety.
- CKB-VM.
RISC-V virtual machine.
- CosmWasm.
Multi-chain smart contract platform built for the Cosmos ecosystem.
- EVM Parity.
Parity implementation of EVM.
- FuelVM.
Interpreter for the FuelVM, a blazingly fast blockchain virtual machine.
- FVM.
The Filecoin Virtual Machine is a hypervisor-inspired Wasm execution environment that supports multiple runtimes, including the EVM.
- Lunatic.
Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly.
- Polygon Miden.
SNARK based VM.
- SVM
Spacemesh Virtual Machine.
- Wasmi.
WebAssembly interpreter.
- Wasmer.
A convenient Rust wrapper over WebAssembly backends.
- Wasmtime.
Standalone JIT-style runtime for WebAssembly, using Cranelift.
- Zinc.
Zinc zk smart contract language.
General-Purpose Consensus
- Raft.
Raft distributed consensus algorithm implemented in Rust.
- Honey Badger.
An implementation of the paper "Honey Badger of BFT Protocols" in
Rust.
- Narwhal.
The consensus layer used by Sui.
P2P Network Libraries
- chamomile.
P2P library. Support build robust stable connection on
p2p/distributed network.
- crust.
Reliable P2P network connections in Rust with NAT traversal. One of
the most needed libraries for any server-less / decentralised
projects.
- rust-libp2p.
The Rust Implementation of the libp2p networking stack.
- Tentacle.
A multiplexed p2p network framework that supports custom protocols
- P2P NAT-Traversal.
NAT Traversal techniques for p2p communication.
- qp2p.
Peer-to-peer communications library for Rust based on QUIC protocol.
- sn_routing.
Routing - specialised storage DHT.
Cryptography
Layer2
- Arbitrum's arb-os
ArbOS is the "operating system" that runs an eth Layer 2 on an Arbitrum chain,
- Noir language.
Noir is a Domain Specific Language for SNARK proving systems. (Aztec eth L2)
- Penumbra.
PoS network providing privacy to the Cosmos ecosystem.
- Rust-Lightning
is a Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust.
The main crate, lightning, does not handle networking,
persistence, or any other I/O. Thus, it is runtime-agnostic,
but users must implement basic networking logic,
chain interactions, and disk storage.
- zkSync.
Matter Labs' scaling eth L2 engine secured by zero-knowledge proofs.
Dapps
- Serum-dex.
A decentralized exchange built on Solana.
- SewUp.
A library to help you build your Ethereum webassembly contract with
Rust and just like develop in a common backend.
- Sienna Network.
A privacy-first and cross-chain decentralized finance platform where
you can privately swap, lend and convert your tokens into their
private equivalent.
- ink!athon.
Full-Stack DApp Boilerplate for Substrate and ink! Smart Contracts.
Other
- abscissa.
Micro-framework for CLI tools with strong focus on security.
- tesseracts.
A small block explorer for geth PoAs written in rust.
- merk.
High performance Merkle key/value store written in Rust, based on
RocksDB.
- ERC-4337 Bundler.
An ongoing Rust implementation of an ERC-4337 (Account Abstraction) Bundler.
- Solana VS Code Extension.
VS Code extension for Solana with built-in static analysis detectors and fuzzing coverage visualization.
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