App integration

ox

Core SDKs/libraries

SDK · ABI encoding · Transaction signing · Type-safe

ox is a low-level TypeScript library of Ethereum primitives covering ABI, RLP, hex, signing, and transactions, and it sits under viem and other wevm tools. Builders import it directly when they want the primitives without the client layer.

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Web3j

Lightweight, modular, reactive Java and Android library for Ethereum. JSON-RPC client API, wallet support, and auto-generated Solidity contract wrappers for deployment and interaction. Includes CLI, Maven/Gradle plugins, and ENS support.

web3.py

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Ethers.js

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Viem: TypeScript Interface for Ethereum

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Nethereum

Nethereum is the .Net integration library for Ethereum, simplifying the access and smart contract interaction with Ethereum nodes both public like Geth (or your preferred client) L2 chains like Optimism, Arbitrum (or your preferred L2), any compatible EVM chain (Gnosis, etc) and permissioned chains like Quorum.

Rust Libp2p

rust-libp2p is the reference Rust implementation of libp2p's modular peer-to-peer stack used by Magi on the OP Stack, Lighthouse, Forest, and many other projects that need composable transports, security, pubsub, and discovery primitives for decentralized networking.