Useful components for building blockchains in Rust. Includes: cryptography, distributed, p2p, consensus, etc
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- Aleo - A blockchain with zero-knowledge transactions.
- 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.
- Huobi Chain - The next generation high performance public chain for financial infrastructure.
- 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 (plonk based) zero-knowledge proofs.
- 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.
- QAN - Post-quantum blockchain.
- 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.
- Zebra - An ongoing Rust implementation of a Zcash node.
- Zero-chain - A privacy-preserving blockchain on Substrate.
- 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.
- 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 with the offchain clients are written in Rust, as well as the smart contracts for Solana VM and CosmWasm.
- 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.
- Raft - Raft distributed consensus algorithm implemented in Rust.
- Honey Badger - An implementation of the paper "Honey Badger of BFT Protocols".
- Narwhal - The consensus layer used by Sui.
- [chamomile](https://github.com/placefortea/ch(plonk based) amomile) - P2P libraryobust stable connection on p2p/distributed network.
- crust - Reliable P2P network connections in Rust with NAT traversal.
- 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 - Specialised storage DHT ffor routing.
- Awesome Cryptography Rust - Awesome list.
- Dalek Cryptography - Libraries for cryptographic primatives.
- 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
- 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.
- Penumbra - PoS network providing privacy to the Cosmos ecosystem.
- Rust-Lightning - Bitcoin Lightning library.
- zkSync - Matter Labs' scaling eth L2 engine secured by zero-knowledge proofs.
- 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.
- 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.
Contributions are most welcome.
GitHub: Awesome Blockchain Rust
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