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Top 23 Rust Blockchain Projects
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union
The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance. (by unionlabs)
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diem
Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.
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foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
Project mention: Contrarian View: Vyper 0.3.10 Is Overhyped – Solidity 0.8.20 Is Better for Smart Contracts in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-04-29 -
sui
Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language
Project mention: The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-23If the age verification is going to mandate government issued ID, the government issuer can be the Trust Anchor issuing a Digitally Signed Credential for the zero knowledge proof - using any available open source zero-knowledge process:
1) zkcreds-rs (zk-creds) [1]
2) zkLogin (Sui Foundation) [2]
3) TLSNotary [3]
4) DECO (Chainlink/Cornell) [4]
5) Anon-Aadhaar [5]
[1] https://github.com/rozbb/zkcreds-rs
[2] https://github.com/mystenlabs/sui/tree/main/sdk/zklogin
[3] https://github.com/tlsnotary/tlsn
[4] https://chain.link/education/zero-knowledge-proof-zkp#preser...
[5] https://github.com/anon-aadhaar/anon-aadhaar
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aptos-core
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
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reth
Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust
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massa
Massa is a blockchain reaching a high transaction throughput in a decentralized network. Massa uses a multithreaded block graph allowing nodes to create blocks in parallel and process 10’000 transactions per second. (by massalabs)
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The Graph is a decentralized indexing protocol that lets developers query blockchain data through GraphQL APIs called subgraphs. With over 1,000 subgraphs deployed across major chains, it provides structured access to DEX pool data, lending positions, governance events, and more.
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Project mention: Implementing Off-Chain Indexing in Polkadot Substrate for Optimized Data Retrieval and Storage | dev.to | 2026-04-05
With over 600 ecosystem projects and 632k+ max transaction throughput, Polkadot has become one of the major blockchains with a thriving ecosystem. Building on Polkadot is fairly straightforward via the Polkadot SDK. The SDK is a versatile developer kit designed to facilitate building on the Polkadot network by making the required components for building chains, parachains, rollups, and more available to interested developers.
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sp1
SP1 is a zero‑knowledge virtual machine that proves the correct execution of programs compiled for the RISC-V architecture.
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Project mention: Building a Poetry Auction Smart Contract on Polkadot with ink! | dev.to | 2025-10-08
ink! SDK Documentation
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CYFS
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.
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Project mention: Show HN: Alloy – Rust library for connecting apps to Ethereum-based chains | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-18
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exonum
An extensible open-source framework for creating private/permissioned blockchain applications
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Blockchain projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | union | 74,002 |
| 2 | diem | 16,678 |
| 3 | foundry | 10,380 |
| 4 | sui | 7,695 |
| 5 | aptos-core | 6,436 |
| 6 | reth | 5,618 |
| 7 | massa | 5,528 |
| 8 | anchor | 5,082 |
| 9 | snarkOS | 4,527 |
| 10 | graph-node | 3,136 |
| 11 | polkadot-sdk | 2,768 |
| 12 | nearcore | 2,590 |
| 13 | namada | 2,523 |
| 14 | revm | 2,197 |
| 15 | sp1 | 1,690 |
| 16 | ink | 1,459 |
| 17 | CYFS | 1,436 |
| 18 | joystream | 1,397 |
| 19 | holochain | 1,385 |
| 20 | solang | 1,382 |
| 21 | cita | 1,307 |
| 22 | alloy | 1,280 |
| 23 | exonum | 1,242 |
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