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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 360 Rust repositories tagged blockchain. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    unionlabs/union74,101 · ⑂ 3,897

    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
  2. 2
    FuelLabs/fuel-core57,095 · ⑂ 2,861

    Rust full node implementation of the Fuel v2 protocol.

    • blockchain
    • fuel
  3. 3
    linera-io/linera-protocol32,130 · ⑂ 2,351

    Main repository for the Linera protocol

    • blockchain
    • rust
    • wasm
  4. 4
    zama-ai/fhevm25,318 · ⑂ 2,046

    FHEVM, a full-stack framework for integrating Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with blockchain applications

    • blockchain
    • fhe
    • privacy
  5. 5
    diem/diem16,678 · ⑂ 2,558

    Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.

    • blockchain
  6. 6
    solana-labs/solana14,867 · ⑂ 5,650

    Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.

    • ledger
    • blockchain
    • solana
    • performance-blockchain
    • rustc
    • bitcoin
  7. 7
    foundry-rs/foundry10,320 · ⑂ 2,502

    Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.

    • rust
    • solidity
    • evm
    • testing
    • fuzzing
    • blockchain
  8. 8
    paritytech/substrate8,419 · ⑂ 2,648

    Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators

    • parity
    • polkadot
    • blockchain
    • substrate
    • client
    • node
  9. 9
    datahaven-xyz/datahaven7,985 · ⑂ 144

    An EVM compatible Substrate chain, powered by StorageHub and secured by EigenLayer

    • blockchain
    • decentralized
    • eigenlayer
    • eigenlayer-avs
    • ethereum
    • storage
  10. 10
    MystenLabs/sui7,674 · ⑂ 11,698

    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
  11. 11
    paritytech/polkadot7,111 · ⑂ 1,540

    Polkadot Node Implementation

    • parity
    • polkadot
    • blockchain
    • rust
    • client
    • node
  12. 12
    openethereum/parity-ethereum6,840 · ⑂ 1,710

    The fast, light, and robust client for Ethereum-like networks.

    • ethereum
    • blockchain
    • rust
    • client
    • node
  13. 13
    aptos-labs/aptos-core6,441 · ⑂ 3,903

    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
  14. 14
    paradigmxyz/reth5,558 · ⑂ 2,423

    Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust

    • blockchain
    • distributed-systems
    • ethereum
    • p2p
    • rust
    • contributor-friendly
  15. 15
    solana-foundation/anchor5,050 · ⑂ 1,916

    ⚓ Solana Program Framework

    • solana
    • rust
    • blockchain
    • smart-contracts
    • coral
  16. 16
    ProvableHQ/snarkOS4,526 · ⑂ 2,683

    A Decentralized Operating System for ZK Applications

    • aleo
    • blockchain
    • cryptography
    • zero-knowledge
    • zksnarks
    • rust
  17. 17
    graphprotocol/graph-node3,126 · ⑂ 1,066

    Graph Node indexes data from blockchains such as Ethereum and serves it over GraphQL

    • graphql
    • graphql-api
    • blockchain
    • protocol
    • ethereum
    • ipfs
  18. 18
    paritytech/polkadot-sdk2,760 · ⑂ 1,195

    The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK

    • blockchain
    • cumulus
    • polkadot
    • substrate
  19. 19
    near/nearcore2,587 · ⑂ 773

    Reference client for NEAR Protocol

    • blockchain
    • rust
    • webassembly
    • nearprotocol
  20. 20
    namada-net/namada2,527 · ⑂ 1,021

    Rust implementation of Namada, a Proof-of-Stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy

    • blockchain
    • privacy
    • rust
    • zkp
  21. 21
    bluealloy/revm2,184 · ⑂ 1,002

    Rust implementation of the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

    • ethereum
    • evm
    • revm
    • rust
    • blockchain
    • contributor-friendly
  22. 22
    succinctlabs/sp11,660 · ⑂ 656

    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
  23. 23
    use-ink/ink1,461 · ⑂ 477

    Polkadot's ink! to write smart contracts.

    • smart-contracts
    • webassembly
    • wasm
    • substrate
    • domain-specific-language
    • blockchain
  24. 24
    buckyos/CYFS1,437 · ⑂ 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
  25. 25
    Joystream/joystream1,401 · ⑂ 117

    Joystream Monorepo

    • joystream
    • substrate
    • rust
    • blockchain
    • cryptocurrency
    • typescript

Find Rust engineers shipping Blockchain

The list above ranks the most-starred public Rust repositories tagged with the Blockchain topic, drawn from the public GitHub graph. Across 360 matching repositories, the contributors are a tight cluster of engineers with both Rust chops and real Blockchain experience.

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