Awesome Blockchain Rust

Useful components for building blockchains in Rust. include: cryptography, distributed, p2p, consensus, etc

• Blockchains
• Blockchain Frameworks
• Cross-Chain
• Virtual Machines
• General-Purpose Consensus
• P2P Network Libraries
• Cryptography
• Layer2
• Dapps
• Other
• Contribute
• License

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.
• 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
• 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.

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

• 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

• Awesome Cryptography Rust.
• Dalek Cryptography.
• Za!. An experimental rust zksnarks compiler with embeeded bellman-bn128 prover.
• OpenZKP. Pure Rust implementations of Zero-Knowledge Proof systems.
• Microsoft Nova. Rust recursive snark without trusted setup.
• Arkworks. An ecosystem for developing and programming with zkSNARKs

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.

Contribute

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