Ethereum for Rust developers

Learn how to develop for Ethereum using Rust-based projects and tooling

Use Ethereum to create decentralized applications (or "dapps") that utilize the benefits of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. These dapps can be trustworthy, meaning that once they are deployed to Ethereum, they will always run as programmed. They can control digital assets in order to create new kinds of financial applications. They can be decentralized, meaning that no single entity or person controls them and are nearly impossible to censor.

Getting started with smart contracts and the Solidity language

Take your first steps to integrating Rust with Ethereum

Need a more basic primer first? Check out ethereum.org/learn or ethereum.org/developers.

Beginner articles

The Rust Ethereum Client(opens in a new tab) * Note that OpenEthereum has been deprecated(opens in a new tab) and is no longer being maintained. Use it with caution and preferably switch to another client implementation.
Sending Transaction to Ethereum Using Rust(opens in a new tab)
A step-by-step tutorial on how to write contracts in rust Wasm for Kovan(opens in a new tab)

Intermediate articles

Advanced use patterns

Rust projects and tools

pwasm-ethereum(opens in a new tab) - Collection of externs to interact with ethereum-like network
Lighthouse(opens in a new tab) - Fast Ethereum consensus layer client
Ethereum WebAssembly(opens in a new tab) - Proposed redesign of the Ethereum smart contract execution layer using a deterministic subset of WebAssembly
oasis_std(opens in a new tab) - OASIS API reference
Solaris(opens in a new tab) - Solidity Smart Contracts unit test harness using the native Parity Client EVM.
SputnikVM(opens in a new tab) - Rust Ethereum Virtual Machine Implementation
Wavelet(opens in a new tab) - Wavelet smart contract in Rust
Foundry(opens in a new tab) - Toolkit for Ethereum application development
Alloy(opens in a new tab) - High-performance, well-tested & documented libraries for interacting with Ethereum and other EVM-based chains.
Ethers_rs(opens in a new tab) - Ethereum library and wallet implementation
SewUp(opens in a new tab) - A library to help you build your Ethereum webassembly contract with Rust and just like develop in a common backend
Substreams(opens in a new tab) - Parallelized blockchain data indexing technology
Reth(opens in a new tab) Reth (short for Rust Ethereum) is a new Ethereum full-node implementation
Awesome Ethereum Rust(opens in a new tab) - A curated collection of projects in the Ethereum ecosystem written in Rust

Looking for more resources? Check out ethereum.org/developers.