Top Rust Blockchain repositories on GitHub
Chains, smart contracts, wallets, and on-chain tooling. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Rust.
Ranked by stars across 359 Rust repositories tagged blockchain. Refreshed daily.
- 1unionlabs/union★ 73,951 · ⑂ 3,882
The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance.
- blockchain
- cosmos
- evm
- golang
- rust
- solidity
- 2FuelLabs/fuel-core★ 57,000 · ⑂ 2,861
Rust full node implementation of the Fuel v2 protocol.
- blockchain
- fuel
- 3linera-io/linera-protocol★ 32,074 · ⑂ 2,353
Main repository for the Linera protocol
- blockchain
- rust
- wasm
- 4zama-ai/fhevm★ 25,218 · ⑂ 2,033
FHEVM, a full-stack framework for integrating Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with blockchain applications
- blockchain
- fhe
- privacy
- 5diem/diem★ 16,678 · ⑂ 2,549
Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.
- blockchain
- 6solana-labs/solana★ 14,918 · ⑂ 5,718
Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
- ledger
- blockchain
- solana
- performance-blockchain
- rustc
- bitcoin
- 7foundry-rs/foundry★ 10,441 · ⑂ 2,561
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
- rust
- solidity
- evm
- testing
- fuzzing
- blockchain
- 8paritytech/substrate★ 8,411 · ⑂ 2,644
Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators
- parity
- polkadot
- blockchain
- substrate
- client
- node
- 9datahaven-xyz/datahaven★ 7,941 · ⑂ 144
An EVM compatible Substrate chain, powered by StorageHub and secured by EigenLayer
- blockchain
- decentralized
- eigenlayer
- eigenlayer-avs
- ethereum
- storage
- 10MystenLabs/sui★ 7,717 · ⑂ 11,688
Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language
- blockchain
- distributed-ledger-technology
- move
- smart-contracts
- 11paritytech/polkadot★ 7,098 · ⑂ 1,536
Polkadot Node Implementation
- parity
- polkadot
- blockchain
- rust
- client
- node
- 12openethereum/parity-ethereum★ 6,831 · ⑂ 1,708
The fast, light, and robust client for Ethereum-like networks.
- ethereum
- blockchain
- rust
- client
- node
- 13aptos-labs/aptos-core★ 6,438 · ⑂ 3,909
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
- blockchain
- blockchain-network
- move
- smart-contracts
- aptos
- 14paradigmxyz/reth★ 5,656 · ⑂ 2,487
Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust
- blockchain
- distributed-systems
- ethereum
- p2p
- rust
- contributor-friendly
- 15
- 16ProvableHQ/snarkOS★ 4,525 · ⑂ 2,685
A Decentralized Operating System for ZK Applications
- aleo
- blockchain
- cryptography
- zero-knowledge
- zksnarks
- rust
- 17graphprotocol/graph-node★ 3,140 · ⑂ 1,057
Graph Node indexes data from blockchains such as Ethereum and serves it over GraphQL
- graphql
- graphql-api
- blockchain
- protocol
- ethereum
- ipfs
- 18paritytech/polkadot-sdk★ 2,782 · ⑂ 1,213
The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK
- blockchain
- cumulus
- polkadot
- substrate
- 19
- 20namada-net/namada★ 2,521 · ⑂ 1,018
Rust implementation of Namada, a Proof-of-Stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy
- blockchain
- privacy
- rust
- zkp
- 21bluealloy/revm★ 2,198 · ⑂ 1,024
Rust implementation of the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
- ethereum
- evm
- revm
- rust
- blockchain
- contributor-friendly
- 22succinctlabs/sp1★ 1,695 · ⑂ 665
SP1 is a zero‑knowledge virtual machine that proves the correct execution of programs compiled for the RISC-V architecture.
- blockchain
- contributor-friendly
- ethereum
- modular
- rust
- zero-knowledge
- 23use-ink/ink★ 1,460 · ⑂ 476
Polkadot's ink! to write smart contracts.
- smart-contracts
- webassembly
- wasm
- substrate
- domain-specific-language
- blockchain
- 24buckyos/CYFS★ 1,439 · ⑂ 201
CYFS is the next-generation technology to build real Web3 by upgrading the basic protocol of Web (TCP/IP+DNS+HTTP),is short for CYberFileSystem. https://www.cyfs.com/, cyfs://cyfs/index_en.html.
- blockchain
- cryptography
- named-data-networking
- p2p
- rust
- web3
- 25Joystream/joystream★ 1,396 · ⑂ 118
Joystream Monorepo
- joystream
- substrate
- rust
- blockchain
- cryptocurrency
- typescript
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The list above ranks the most-starred public Rust repositories tagged with the Blockchain topic, drawn from the public GitHub graph. Across 359 matching repositories, the contributors are a tight cluster of engineers with both Rust chops and real Blockchain experience.
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