Defining the web3 stack

• foundry

  39 7,530 9.9 Rust

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

  

Foundry is a new Solidity development environment from Paradigm that shows a lot of promise. Key standouts are the ability to write tests in Solidity, support for fuzzing, and speed (it's written in Rust). I wrote a separate introduction to it here.

• wallet-adapter

  12 1,346 8.7 TypeScript

  Modular TypeScript wallet adapters and components for Solana applications.

  

As far as JavaScript frameworks go, you can really build with anything you’d like, as the client-side blockchain SDKs are mostly framework-agnostic. That being said, an overwhelming number of projects and examples are built in React. There are also a handful of libraries like Solana Wallet Adapter that offer additional utilities for React, so I’d say that learning or being familiar with React is going to probably be a smart move.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• zksync

  57 4,686 5.7 Rust

  zkSync: trustless scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum

  

ZK rollups: ZKSync, Starknet, Hermez - High throughput Ethereum layer 2s, but not natively EVM compatible

• decentralized-identity-example

  2 188 0.0 JavaScript

  An authentication system built with Ceramic & self.id

What about managing user profiles in a decentralized way? Ceramic Network offers the most robust protocol and suite of tools for managing decentralized identity. They recently released a blog post outlining some of their most recent updates and giving some guidelines around how all of the tools work together. I’d start there and then explore their docs to gain an understanding of how to start building, and consider checking out my example project here.

• web3.storage

  81 500 8.5 JavaScript

  DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin

  

Filecoin - from Protocol Labs, the same team that build IPFS, it is a protocol designed to provide a system of persistent data storage. There are a handful of ways for developers to build on Filecoin, including web3.storage which is pretty nice.

• ensjs

  1 208 0.0 JavaScript

  Javascript bindings for the Ethereum Name Service

  

If you want to fetch a user’s ENS text records, the ensjs library offers a nice API for fetching user data:

• truffle

  72 14,014 9.4 TypeScript

  Discontinued :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.

  

Truffle is a suite of tools for building and developing applications on the EVM. It’s mature, battle tested, and well documented. It’s been around for a while and many developers use it.

• InfluxDB

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• solana

  288 12,043 9.9 Rust

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

  

Solana - high throughput, inexpensive transactions, fast block times, but harder to learn than EVM (Rust)

• skynet-cli

  70 17 0.0 Go

  a lightweight cli to interact with Skynet

  

Skynet - I have not yet used it in production, but have tried it out and it seems to work nicely. The API here looks great. I have questions like how long is the data persisted, and Skynet's interoperability with other protocols.

• nearcore

  84 2,248 9.9 Rust

  Reference client for NEAR Protocol

  

NEAR - Layer 1 blockchain, can write smart contracts in Rust or Assemblyscript

• go-livepeer

  38 527 8.7 Go

  Official Go implementation of the Livepeer protocol

  

Livepeer is a decentralized video streaming network. It is mature and widely used with over 70,000 GPUs live on the network.

• ipfs

  483 22,510 4.4

  Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

  

IPFS - peer-to-peer file system protocol pros: it’s reliable, well documented with a large ecosystem cons: if data is not pinned it can be lost

• hardhat

  125 6,754 9.9 TypeScript

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

  

Hardhat is a newer option, but one that is gaining more and more popularity. Their docs are great, the tooling and developer experience is polished, and it’s what I’ve personally been using to build dapps.

• chainlink

  168 6,581 10.0 Go

  node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation

  

Chainlink is an Oracle that enables access to real-world data and off-chain computation while maintaining the security and reliability guarantees inherent to blockchain technology.

• celo-monorepo

  36 679 9.3 Solidity

  Official repository for core projects comprising the Celo platform

  

Celo - EVM compatible layer 1, designed to make it easy for anyone with a smartphone to send, receive, and store crypto

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