openzeppelin-contracts vs solmate

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openzeppelin-contracts		solmate
	Project
233	Mentions	11
24,079	Stars	3,631
1.6%	Growth	1.6%
9.5	Activity	5.2
6 days ago	Latest Commit	26 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Solidity
MIT License	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

openzeppelin-contracts

Posts with mentions or reviews of openzeppelin-contracts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.

Blockchain transactions decoding: making wallet activity understandable
5 projects | dev.to | 27 Oct 2023

Lets look the events of Open Zeppelin’s ERC20 token contract:
Construir e implementar un VAULT (bóveda) ERC20 en Shardeum
1 project | /r/u_dhragon666 | 17 Sep 2023
Are ERC-777 Unsafe?
1 project | /r/ethdev | 11 Sep 2023

ERC-777 is difficult to implement properly, due to its susceptibility to different forms of attack(opens in a new tab). It is recommended to use ERC-20 instead. This page remains as a historical archive.
OpenZeppelin is trying to avoid paying a bounty for a vulnerability that caused $1,1B worth of assets freeze
1 project | /r/eth | 25 Jul 2023

1 project | /r/ethdev | 24 Jul 2023
Security improvements of the ERC20 token standard
1 project | /r/eth | 12 Jul 2023

1 project | /r/ethdev | 12 Jul 2023
Ethereums most used token standard ERC20 requires security enhancements
1 project | /r/CryptoCurrency | 12 Jul 2023
The most used Ethereums token standard (ERC20) requires a security patch.
1 project | /r/CryptoCurrency | 12 Jul 2023
Best Solidity Vertion
1 project | /r/solidity | 29 May 2023

This depends if you're writing a contract from scratch or using existing code. If you're making something new, then yes (recommend not to use THE most recent available, always better to go with tried and tested). For existing projects, never try to override the solidity version. This may be a pain with "@" imports - ideally everyone should specify the library version (e.g. https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/v2.5.1/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol).

solmate

Posts with mentions or reviews of solmate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-12.

Best implementation for burning tokens?
1 project | /r/ethdev | 23 Dec 2022

You can also look at Solmate's implementation: https://github.com/transmissions11/solmate
What I Learned While Building My First Web3 Project
4 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2022

Solmate building blocks
Best Solidity Practices (with examples)
1 project | dev.to | 11 Dec 2022

Use battle-tested and audited code. OpenZeppelin, Solmate.
Any other popular github repo that offer contracts like Openzeppelin ?
1 project | /r/solidity | 21 Nov 2022
How to implement a pledge dividend contract from scratch
2 projects | /r/solidity | 20 Aug 2022
Best basic contracts to fork
2 projects | /r/ethdev | 4 Jul 2022
Gas efficient ERC20 like the ERC721A implementation?
1 project | /r/ethdev | 26 Apr 2022
$34M permanently locked into AkuDreams contract forever due to bad code
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2022

If you are wanting to read some code, here's a an "ERC20" contract (a "money").
https://github.com/Rari-Capital/solmate/blob/main/src/tokens...
Best Foundry testing resources / examples?
2 projects | /r/ethdev | 19 Apr 2022
What do you use to develop smart contracts?
6 projects | /r/ethdev | 31 Jan 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing openzeppelin-contracts and solmate you can also consider the following projects:

hardhat - Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software.

scaffold-eth - 🏗 forkable Ethereum dev stack focused on fast product iterations

ERC721A - https://ERC721A.org

Safemoon.sol - safemoon contract

solidity - Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language

HWdapp - hello world dapp

truffle - :warning: The Truffle Suite is being sunset. For information on ongoing support, migration options and FAQs, visit the Consensys blog. Thank you for all the support over the years.

lil-web3 - Simple, intentionally-limited versions of web3 protocols & apps.

poap-contracts - The Proof of Attendance Protocol Ethereum contracts

truffle-plugin-verify - ✅ Verify your smart contracts on Etherscan from the Truffle CLI