SputnikVM: Rust Ethereum Virtual Machine Implementation

Name	Description	Crates.io	Documentation
evm	Main library that re-exports most things.
evm-core	Core library defining the basic execution rules.
evm-gasometer	Integration of Ethereum gas rules.
evm-runtime	Runtime defining interface for block, transaction, and storage.

Features

• Standalone - can be launched as an independent process or integrated into other apps
• Universal - supports different Ethereum chains, such as ETC, ETH or private ones
• Stateless - only an execution environment connected to independent State storage
• Fast - main focus is on performance
• written in Rust, can be used as a binary, cargo crate or shared library

Feature Flags

SputnikVM provides optional feature flags to enable specific functionalities:

• allow_explicit_address Enables the transact_create_force_address method, allowing contract creation with a predefined address.
• with-codec
• with-serde
• tracing
• force-debug

Dependencies

Ensure you have at least rustc 1.51.0 (2fd73fabe 2021-03-23). Rust 1.50.0 and before are not supported.

Documentation

• Latest release documentation

Build from sources

SputnikVM is written in Rust. If you are not familiar with Rust, please see the starting documentation.

Build

To start working with SputnikVM you'll need to install rustup, then you can do:

$ git clone git@github.com:rust-blockchain/evm.git
$ cd evm
$ cargo build --release --all

License

Apache 2.0