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A modern smart contract platform for Cardano.
Instant and scalable API to the Cardano blockchain.
The companion command-line to interact with a Cardano node, manipulate addresses or create transactions.
A cloud environment with all the tools for building your dApp.
A collection of tools (CNTools, gLiveView, topologyUpdater and more) to simplify typical operations to help community simplify wallet keys, pool management and interact with blockchain.
A feature-complete, open-source TypeScript SDK and off-chain framework including wallet integration, transaction building, a smart contract library, third-party API integration, and UI components: with thorough documentation and live demos for all skill levels.
Ogmios is a lightweight bridge interface (WebSocket + JSON/RPC) for cardano-node.
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A tool for tailing the Cardano blockchain and emitting events for each block and transaction seen, based on user configurable filters.
Building blocks for serialization and pure Golang development: a layer to interact with the Cardano Node including providers for commonly used services.
Argus | Cardano.Sync is a .NET library that simplifies interactions with the Cardano blockchain by providing an efficient indexing framework.
Atlas is an all-in-one, Haskell-native application backend for writing off-chain code for on-chain Plutus smart contracts.
A Python library that benefits the token & NFT communities. Scripts allow easy wallet management, automatic creation of unlocked and time-locked policy IDs, as well as the ability to quickly: build, sign, and submit transactions, and much more. Note: This library relies on wrapping cardano-cli.
Convert to and from bech32 strings from the command-line. A simple and easy-to-use unix utility.
Blaze is a library, which allows you to create Cardano transactions and off-chain code for your Aiken contracts in JavaScript.
A programmatic Cardano Wallet
A security and compliance audit script for Cardano stakepool nodes, to help SPOs check their node and security configuration.
Download the latest Cardano blockchain snapshot.
A client library for Cardano in Java. For some features like transaction signing and address generation, it currently uses cardano-serialization-lib rust library though JNI.
Useful hooks and React components to simplify the Cardano dApp integration e.g. to connect browser wallets, fetch addresses and provide signing.
A desktop wallet for Cardano development. It allows you to test your smart contracts and transactions without having to use a full node.
Cardano CLI tool for hardware wallets.
Lightweight and Portable Scheduled Blocks Checker for Next, Current and Previous Epochs.
An HTTP API for interfacing with a local Cardano Node and providing the node internal data for HTTP clients.
This library aims to provide simple interfaces to implement CIP-0045 (WebRTC communication) for dApps and wallets
Library for serialization & deserialization of data structures used in Cardano's Haskell implementation.
Tool to sign data with a Cardano-Secret-Key and verify data with a Cardano-Public-Key
A Purescript library for building smart contract transactions on Cardano (NodeJS & the browser)
A lightweight typescript library to verify a cip30 datasignature.
A command-line utility and library for manipulating addresses, keys and recovery phrases on Cardano.
This is a Typescript/Javascript version of the cardano-addresses API. It includes a web demo.
A pure C library for interacting with the Cardano blockchain. Compliant with MISRA standards and binding-friendly architecture.
A PostgreSQL database layer which stores all data from the Cardano blockchain in a structured and normalized way.
A cross-platform, typed, and queryable API for Cardano.
JavaScript SDK for interacting with Cardano, providing various key management options, with support for popular hardware wallets
A library of utilities and codecs for serialization/deserialization of core data-stuctures. Replacement for 'cardano-serialization-lib'.
A lightweight Java implementation of the Mesh (formerly Rosetta) API for Cardano, built on Yaci-store for reduced resource footprint.
An HTTP server and command-line for managing UTxOs and hierarchical deterministic wallets in Cardano.
A JavaScript SDK for Cardano Wallet with a extra functionalities. You can use it as a client for the official cardano-wallet and also to create Native Tokens and NFTs.
A library that wraps the cardano-cli in JavaScript.
Cardano & WordPress plugin integration
CardanoSharp Wallet is a .NET library for Creating/Managing Wallets and Building/Signing Transactions.
A modular indexer for Cardano with an SQL Postgres backend.
This project aims to achieve multiple goals: re-implement Cardano ledger rules for calculating ada pots and rewards, validate Cardano's rewards calculation through an alternative implementation of the ledger specification, provide a library for use in other projects (like yaci-store) independent of DB Sync, and offer insights into protocol parameters and ada flow through interactive reports.
This repository provides applications for indexing Cardano blockchain data into a PostgreSQL database, scheduling jobs, and streaming blockchain events to messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ, offering flexible data management and customization options.
CFD simplifies and accelerates Cardano software deployment, stake pool management, software updates, and secure key handling, including GPG keychain integration and automated encryption, all with minimal user effort.
A Cardano wallet built for developers and power users.
Designed to decode, understand, and build with CBOR data. The tool simplifies working with CBOR by leveraging schema definitions to provide a more human-readable and structured representation of the data.
API for developers to receive information on changing stake balance.
Elm offchain package for Cardano. This project aims to be the friendliest and most productive way of handling an offchain Cardano frontend. It should be a perfect match to Aiken for onchain code.
Highly scalable, production-ready transaction builder & off-chain framework for users and dApps
An encrypted, air-gapped Linux bootable USB drive for Cardano transaction signing, sandboxed access to files on your main computer, and storage & backup of secure assets & documents.
A powerful UPLC debugger that lets you step through UPLC execution, travel backwards in time, and map directly to smart contract source code making complex debugging simple and intuitive.
Golang implementation of the Cardano Ouroboros network protocol.
A DSL for writing Cardano Smart Contracts. Reference compiler is a single Javascript file without dependencies.
Hydra is the layer-two scalability solution for Cardano, which aims to increase the speed of transactions (low latency, high throughput) and minimize transaction cost.
An IntelliJ plugin for Cardano blockchain.
Elastic light/full-mode API query-layer for Cardano Blockchain.
Haskell library and API server for composing balanced Cardano transactions.
A lightweight & configurable chain-index for Cardano.
Renders transactions from CBOR and transaction hashes, providing a graphical representation of blockchain data for developers and analysts. Includes dissect functionality that breaks down CBOR structures for debugging and troubleshooting low-level Cardano transactions.
Lucid is a library, which allows you to create Cardano transactions and off-chain code for your Plutus contracts in JavaScript and Node.js.
Blockchain indexer, APIs and event management system for the Cardano blockchain.
Marlowe is a domain-specific language (DSL) that enables users to create blockchain applications that are specifically designed for financial contracts.
A custom PostgreSQL extension to interact with Cardano CBOR data directly.
An integrated development environment for building CIP54-compliant Smart NFTs.
A simple CNFT mint-and-vend machine Python library that leverages cardano-cli and Blockfrost.
Display all Cardano NFTs effortlessly & efficiently on your website/app using the low-code & high-speed NFTCDN service.
NMKR Studio is a comprehensive platform for Cardano NFT management, built with C# and .NET 8.0. The project provides a complete solution for minting, burning, and managing NFTs on the Cardano blockchain.
Opshin is a pythonic language for writing smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain. Opshin is a strict subset of Python, this means anyone who knows Python can get up to speed on Opshin pretty quickly.
Oura is a rust-native implementation of a pipeline that connects to the tip of a Cardano node through a combination of Ouroboros mini-protocol, filters the events that match a particular pattern and then submits a succint, self-contained payload to pluggable observers called 'sinks'.
A fully p2p desktop Cardano wallet with builtin DeFi support, and a transaction builder for executing multiple actions in one transaction.
Rust-native building blocks for the Cardano blockchain ecosystem.
Pallas.DotNet is a .NET wrapper around the Pallas Rust library, which provides building blocks for the Cardano blockchain ecosystem. This library allows .NET developers to access the functionality of Pallas in a seamless and straightforward manner.
Pebble is a strongly-typed domain-specific language (DSL) for writing Cardano smart contracts. A simple, yet rock solid, functional language with an imperative bias, targeting UPLC.
System service to configure a DDNS address firewall rule on a BP and send a message via Telegram Bot if your relay IP address has changed. Keeps Cardano nodes connected and secure on residential ISPs with rolling public IPs.
A PostgreSQL extension providing a suite of Cardano-related tools, including cryptographic functions, address encoding/decoding, and blockchain data processing.
Plutarch is a typed eDSL in Haskell for writing efficient Plutus Core validators.
Cardano tool that aims to help dApp developers with integration testing and contracts debugging using disposable private network
A TypeScript API for test-driven development with Helios.
A Cardano library written in Python. It allows users to build and sign transactions without depending on other Cardano serialization tools (such as cardano-cli and cardano-serialization-lib), making it a lightweight library that is easy and fast to set up in all kinds of environments.
Scalus is a development platform for building decentralized applications (DApps) on the Cardano blockchain. It provides a unified environment where developers can write both on-chain smart contracts and off-chain logic using Scala 3 - a modern, expressive, and type-safe functional programming language.
Read-optimized cache of Cardano on-chain entities.
A mock wallet implementation for testing out different products as if you were the user.
CLI scripts to manage your stake pool (online or offline), use and migrate to hardware wallets, send transactions with messages, register for Catalyst, mint/burn Tokens, generate the Token Registry, and more.
A pure javascript Cardano transaction builder library.
UTxORPC (u5c for short) is a gRPC interface for UTxO Blockchains, Interact with UTxO-based blockchains using a shared specification with focus on developer experience and performance.
UTXOS is a suite of tools and services that aim to simplify the onboarding experience for users and businesses to adopt Cardano.
Manage wallet connections across multiple blockchains using a single intuitive interface
This is a library for building off-chain code on Cardano. It is a cardano-cli like wrapper on cardano-serialization-lib (equivalent on MeshJS's lower level APIs), supporting serious DApps' backend on rust codebase.
Create your own local Cardano devnet with ease! It includes an Indexer, minimal Explorer interface, and support for Cardano Client Lib or Lucid JS library's Blockfrost provider.
aci Store is a modular, high-performance Cardano blockchain indexer and datastore that provides a flexible foundation for building blockchain applications. Built on top of the Yaci library, it offers both out-of-the-box functionality and extensive customization options through its plugin framework.
A validator & companion command-line tool to provide hot/cold account management to delegate representatives (a.k.a DReps) on Cardano. The on-chain validator provides an authentication mechanism for an administrator multisig script (m-of-n type), itself granting powers to multisig-like delegate to manage voting stake rights.