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Open Source Polkadot Stack

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This page aims to provide an overview of the open-source Polkadot Tech Stack.

This is a living document, and we rely on everyone to contribute and help maintain it. Please feel free to make edits and additions via pull requests. We apologize if we missed your project!


About

The Polkadot Tech Stack is a subset of the Web 3.0 Tech Stack, which consists of the open-source technologies contributing to and relying on Polkadot. It is meant to be used for decentralized application (Dapp) development within numerous verticals, including DeFi, Gaming, Provenance and many others not pictured below.

|------|--------|------------|
| DeFi | Gaming | Provenance |
|______|________|____________|
Dapps
|--------------------------/-|
| Explorers, Wallets / |
|------------------------/---|
| Tools, Apis, Languages/ |
|----------------------/-----|
| 2nd layer protocols / |
|--------------------/-------|
| Chains / other |
|------------------/--- --|
| *Polkadot* | tech |
|------------------\---------|
| P2P, Crypto, Wasm \ |
|--------------------\-------|

Layers of Polkadot Stack

In the below sections, you can find a list of different layers of the Polkadot Stack.

Maintenance Status:

  • 🟢 Actively maintained
  • 🟡 Stale (no activity on the main branch for one month)
  • ⚪ Unmaintained (no activity on the main branch for more than three months)

Wallets

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
Web WalletsMultix 🟢, Polkasafe 🟡, polkadot-js/apps 🟢, Talisman Web Application 🟢, mydotwallet ⚪, Sub ID 🟢, Primis ⚪, Sakura ⚪, Web3Box ⚪, Coong Wallet ⚪, Subscan Multisig UI - React 🟢, Subscan Multisig UI ⚪, Dorafactory-Multisig ⚪, Capi Multisig AppUser-friendly Wallet based on the Recovery Pallet, Web wallets focused on user-onboarding (e.g. using localStorage)
Desktop Walletsnova-spektr 🟢, Omni desktopEnterprise Wallets
Browser ExtensionsTalisman-Extension 🟢, SubWallet-Extension 🟢, Enkrypt 🟢, Polkadot{.js} 🟢, PolkaGate 🟡, Doter ⚪, Speckle OS ⚪, Kuma Cross-chain Wallet 🟡Sign-in with your Polkadot, Kusama, etc. account.
Mobile WalletsNova Wallet iOS 🟢, Nova Wallet Android 🟢, Polkadot Vault 🟢, Fearless Wallet Android 🟢, Fearless Wallet iOS 🟢, SubWallet-Mobile 🟢, Kampela 🟡, AirGap 🟢, Interstellar Network ⚪, Lunie ⚪, Polkawallet ⚪, imToken ⚪, Stylo ⚪, Fractapp ⚪, Hashed Wallet 🟡
Burner Wallets/Faucet/Giftsdotdrop ⚪, KodaDot ⚪, Astar Faucet Bot ⚪, Generic sybil-resistant faucet ⚪, sybil-resistant Chat Bot FaucetFaucet (a sybil-resistant way to receive free tokens)
Wallet PluginsMetamask-Snap by Chainsafe 🟡
CLI WalletSubwallet ⚪, Proxy-hot-wallet
Hardware WalletsLedger Polkadot 🟡, Ledger Kusama 🟡, Ledger Statemint 🟡, Ledger Statemine 🟡Trezor

User Interface

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
Block ExplorersCalamar 🟡, Polkascan ⚪, Polkastats ⚪, Subscan ⚪, Statescan 🟢, Edgscan ⚪, Sirato 🟡, ink! Explorer API ⚪, Substats ⚪, Hybrid Block ExplorerMempool focused explorer (including parachain transaction)
Validator DashboardsPolkadot Telemetry 🟡, Polkacube ⚪, YieldScan ⚪, Hubble ⚪, Cyclops ⚪, Web3Go 🟡, 1kv insights
Node ExplorersPolkadot Node Explorer
NFT ExplorerNFT Explorer for Kusama & Polkadot 🟢
Governance DashboardsPolkadot Delegation Dashboard ⚪, Polkassembly ⚪, dotreasury 🟢, Bright Treasury ⚪, OpenSquare offchain voting 🟡, OpenGov Insights ⚪, Treasury Tracker ⚪, OpenGov CLI 🟢UI for the Kusama and/or Polkadot treasury (see bounty module), UI for Parachain Lease Offering (PLO)
StakingStaking Rewards Collector 🟢, Staking Rewards Viewer ⚪, Polkadot Staking Site ⚪, Polkadot Staking Dashboard 🟢, Polkadot/Kusama Validator Selector ⚪, Staking Income CSV Generator
Bridge UIParity Bridges UI ⚪, Donut Interface (Steem - Dot) ⚪, Plutonication 🟢
Parachain/CrowdloanParachains.Network ⚪, PolkAuction ⚪, Crowdloan Front End Template ⚪, Slothunter 🟡
IdenticonPolkicon 🟢, PolkadotWebIdenticon ⚪, Polkadot Angular IdentIcon ⚪, Bird Identicon
CoretimeLastic 🟢, RegionX 🟢
OtherPolkadot Cloud 🟢, KappaSigmaMu Fratority 🟢, Quadratic Funding Webapp ⚪, Polkawatch, Bytepay ⚪, charging-management-platform ⚪, subidentity-webapp ⚪, OpenSquare Paid QA ⚪, DotPulse ⚪, Rubeus Keeper ⚪, Polkaflow ⚪, ChainViz 🟡, Dotsight 🟢zkLogin, Portfolio Viewer like Zapper or Zerion

Tools, APIs, and Languages

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
Runtime/Parachain frameworksPolkadot Blockchain SDK 🟢, Gosemble 🟢, Subsembly ⚪, Parachain utilities ⚪, Gantree ⚪, Cryptex 🟢Tools to create parachains with other frameworks, like the Cosmos SDK or Polygon CDK
Client LibrariesPolkadot API - Typescript 🟢, Capi - Typescript ⚪, sub-api 🟢, Go ⚪, .Net ⚪, .NET Standard 2.0 🟢, Substrate .NET Toolchain 🟢, C++ ⚪, C ⚪, Haskell ⚪, Javascript 🟢, Substrate API Sidecar - TypeScript 🟢, Python 🟡, Java (+ Android) ⚪, Substrate Client Java ⚪, Rust SCS 🟢, Rust Parity (subxt) 🟢, Rust pdotc PHP (gmajor-encrypt) ⚪, PHP (neha0921) ⚪, RPC-Ethereum 🟢, Swift ⚪, Kotlin ⚪, substrate-client-kotlin ⚪, substrate-client-swift ⚪, Dart 🟢, Substrate Core Polywrapper ⚪, Substrate SDK iOS 🟡, Substrate SDK Android 🟡, DelightfulDot 🟢
RPC GatewaySubway 🟢
Substrate Contract clientsPatractGo
Easy Runtime DevelopmentSubalfred 🟡, substrate-stencil ⚪, Play Substrate 🟢, substrate-node-template 🟡, Substrate Playground ⚪, AssemblyScript Runtime Generation ⚪, Substrate Package Manager ⚪, Subsembly: Framework for developing AssemblyScript Substrate Runtimes ⚪, dependency diener
IDE PluginsSubstrate Marketplace VS Code Plugin ⚪, VS Code Plugin ⚪, Atom Code Plugin ⚪, zombienet extension
Runtime/Pallet SecuritySubstrate Runtime Fuzzer 🟢, Substrate Toml Lint ⚪, K specifications 🟢, PolPatrol - Polkadot Runtime CheckerAutomated Runtime checking tools, economic audit simulator such as gauntlet.network
Smart Contract Languagesink! 🟢, Ask! 🟡, Subscript ⚪, Solang 🟢, pallet-move 🟢, Move VM Substrate ⚪, Move smart contract by Neatcoin ⚪, eBPF Contracts Hackathon ⚪, PolkaVM 🟢Functional Programming Languages, other languages with developed toolchains
TestingPolkadot introspector 🟢, Subshell ⚪, substrate-simnode ⚪, Halva ⚪, Redspot ⚪, MixBytes Tank ⚪, sub-flood ⚪, Substrate debug-kit ⚪, Asset CLI tool ⚪, sub_crash ⚪, subwasm 🟡, subsee ⚪, polkadot-lab ⚪, RPC-perf
Static AnalysisSubstrace ⚪, Static analyzer for Substrate FRAME's pallets ⚪, CoinFabrik Scout 🟢
TestnetZombienet 🟢, Chopsticks 🟢, Polkadot Launch ⚪, polkadot-starship 🟢, Fork off Substrate ⚪, try-runtime-cli 🟢, Parachain Launch 🟡, Larch Zombienet GUI
BenchmarkingBenchmarking CLI 🟢, Polkadot sTPS ⚪, Clockchain ⚪, Substrate Graph Benchmarks ⚪, ink! & pallet benchmarking template ⚪, smart-bench 🟢
Blockchain Indexing EngineSquid SDK 🟢, Hybrid Indexer 🟢, Substrate Archive ⚪, PSQL Indexer ⚪, Substrate Graph ⚪, Subquery 🟢, MBELT3 ⚪, stick 🟢, Hyperdot
Blockchain/Event MonitoringWeb3 Guardian ⚪, Aurras Event Manager 🟡, @commonwealth/chain-events ⚪, Massbit ⚪, Polkadot Basic Notifications 🟡, Ocelloids 🟢, Tracking Chain ⚪,
GamingCrossbowAmethyst + Substrate
No-code PlatformsEzCode's Polkadot.js plugin on Bubble.io ⚪, Blackprint Visual Programming Polkadot.js module ⚪, SubRelay
WalletsTalisman Connect 🟡, SubWallet-SubConnect ⚪, Metadata Portal 🟢, Tesseract ⚪, WalletConnect ⚪, BitGoJS 🟢
XCMTrappist 🟡, XCM-tools 🟢, XCM-tools Golang 🟡,ParaSpell ❔, XBI ⚪, XCM TS/JS SDK ⚪, XCMSend ⚪, XCM Monitoring Server 🟢, Moonbeam Foundation XCM-SDK 🟢
Otherasset-transfer-api 🟢, txwrapper-core 🟢, open-web3 JS library ⚪, VM-Bridge ⚪, srtool 🟢, srtool-cli 🟡, Substrate Tip Bot 🟢, ORI (Onchain Risk Intelligence) ⚪, PolkaTools 🟢, polkadot-scripts ⚪, Sube 🟡, data-store-sidecar ⚪, SugarFunge 🟡, substrate-wasmedge ⚪, EightFish 🟡, Sandox ⚪, APK verifier

ink! Smart Contracts

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
Core Librariesink! 🟢, cargo-contract 🟢, pallet-contracts 🟢
Local Nodessubstrate-contracts-node 🟢, Swanky
Smart Contract DevelopmentDRink! 🟢, contracts-ui 🟢, SmartBeaver, OpenBrush ❔, Sol2Ink ⚪, Polkadot Contract Wizard 🟢, ink-wrapper 🟢, ink-playground 🟡, ink! Remix Plugin ⚪, Signac ⚪, ink!-boxes ⚪, ink!-smart-contract-wizard
Security & Testingink! Waterfall ⚪, Verifier Image for ink! ⚪, Patron
Frontend Developmentink!athon Boilerplate 🟡, useink 🟡, useInkathon 🟡, ink-typegen 🟢, Typechain Polkadot 🟢
IDE Pluginsink! Analyzer 🟢
BridgesDante Protocol
DeFiPendulum-Ink-Wrapper ⚪, Panorama Swap 🟡, ink_bank ⚪, Polkadot AMM ⚪, Vera ⚪, Nsure Insurance ❔, Everlasting Cash ⚪, Coinversation ⚪, zenlink-dex-contract ⚪, AlgoCashNew seigniorage-style stable coins
GamingOpen Emoji Battler ⚪, NewOmega
DAOSyncraDAO ❔, subDAO ⚪, RainbowDAO ⚪, MangoBox 🟡, MangoSale 🟡
Identity/DIDDotflow 🟢
OraclesDIA WASM Oracle
Spam ProtectionProsopo 🟢
GovernanceAbax Governance
NFTArtZero
OtherPolkadot Smart Account ⚪, magink ⚪, ink-test-contracts 🟡, Candle Auctions ⚪, polkasign-contract ⚪, OCEX ⚪, Roloi ⚪, OpenPayroll ⚪, BlockchainFoodOrder

Chains and Pallets

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
Scalable TransactionsPerun channels ⚪, CLI demo of Perun ⚪, Astar 🟢, Celer ⚪, Gunclear ⚪, TPScore ⚪, proof-of-contract-stake 🟢roll-ups, DAG-based consensus mechanisms, side chains
BridgesinterBTC 🟢, DKG Substrate ⚪, Sygma 🟢, EOS by Bifrost ⚪, POA - Substrate ⚪, Substrate - Ethereum DAI Bridge ⚪, Substrate - Substrate Bridge ⚪, BTC by ChainX 🟢, Cosmos-Substrate bridge ⚪, Substrate IBC Pallet 🟢, Polkadot Ethereum Bridge 🟢, Darwinia 🟢, Spacewalk: a Stellar bridge 🟢, Filecoindot ⚪, Axelar-SubstrateZCash
PrivacyZeroChain ⚪, xx network ⚪, pLibra (Phala Network) 🟢, Automata Network ⚪, Zero Network 🟡, Silent DataMulti-Asset Shielded Pool (MASP) , Zkay, Zexe
ZKPZeroPool ⚪, Megaclite ⚪, zkMega ⚪, PLONK for Substrate ⚪, Webb Anchor Protocol ⚪, zk-SNARKs tutorial ⚪, substrate-zk
TEEAcurast 🟡, Integritee 🟢, substraTEE ⚪, WeTEE 🟢Keysafe Protocol
DeFiPrivaDEX ⚪, Fusotao ⚪, Reef ⚪, Diora ⚪, Pendulum Chain 🟢, Compound Gateway ⚪, Parallel Finance 🟢, PINT ⚪, Laminar Chain ⚪, Acala 🟢, Centrifuge 🟢, Stafi ⚪, Definex ⚪, OAX Foundation ⚪, Cybex ⚪, Zenlink ⚪, Swaps Pallet ⚪, Polkadex 🟢, SubDEX ⚪, HydraDX 🟢, Substrate Stablecoin ⚪, Standard protocol ⚪, Polkaswap 🟢, Curve AMM ⚪, Konomi Network ⚪, Stable Asset 🟡, Libra Payment ⚪, Mangata 🟢, Tidechain ⚪, Basilisk 🟢, Polymesh 🟢DEX with privacy and confidentiality features such as those found in a dark pool
Smart contract chainsmoonbeam 🟢, Magnet 🟢, Aleph-node 🟢, Edgeware ⚪, ParaState ⚪, gear 🟢, CENNZnet ⚪, SkyeKiwi ⚪, OAK-blockchain 🟢, ICE Blockchain ⚪, Polkadot Smart Chain ⚪, Madara - Cairo/Starknet 🟢smart contract chains with novel security approaches, smart contract chains based on existing toolchains
OracleTellor ⚪, Laminar 🟢, Chainlink-polkadot ⚪, Ares Protocol ⚪, Kylin Network ⚪, interbtc-clients oracle 🟢, Anonima ⚪, SaaS3 ⚪, Tellor ⚪, Bridgestate Oracle
Identity/DIDParami ⚪, Litentry 🟢, pallet-did ⚪, dot-id
IoTNodle 🟢, MXC/DataHighway ⚪, peaq-network-node 🟢
Verifiable ClaimsKILT 🟢, Dock 🟢, Fennel Protocol
Supply chainDSCP Node 🟡
Health care
Music IndustryAllfeat Network 🟢
Data AvailabilityAvail 🟢, Melodot 🟢
Social NetworkingFrequency 🟢, Social Network ⚪, SubSocial 🟢, ZeroDAO ⚪, Myriad Node ⚪, Wika Network ⚪, Project Liberty 🟢, Listen ⚪, Tribal Protocol ⚪, Five Degrees on Substrate ⚪, Acuity Social 🟡Private instant messenger that uses on-chain identity
Governance/DAOAisland Node ⚪, Hashed Network ⚪, Sunshine DAO ⚪, Governance OS ⚪, Idavoll Network ⚪, Substrate Moloch ⚪, QRUCIAL-DAO 🟢, Societal ⚪, DAOs ⚪, Shivarthu 🟡, Faterium 🟢, Supersig ⚪, GenesisDAO ⚪, DAO Entrance ❔, Liberland 🟡Consul - Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
Prediction Markets and FutarchyZeitgeist 🟢, X Predict Market
MessagingHOPR ⚪, Nolik ⚪, Uke ⚪, Diffy Chat
File Storage, CloudSubsocial-Offchain ⚪, DatDot ⚪, Crust Network 🟡, offchain::ipfs ⚪, Canyon Network ⚪, CESS 🟢, CESS Proving Subsystem ❔, Iris ⚪, fmd-cess ⚪, IPFS Frame V3 ⚪, Threefold Chain 🟢, Apron ⚪, IPFS Utilities ⚪, DINFRA 🟢
Name ServiceSubstrate Names ⚪, ENS on Substrate ⚪, PNS-Pallets ⚪, Faceless ⚪, Anchor
GamingBit.country 🟢, SubGame ⚪, subzero ⚪, Web3Games ⚪, Ajuna Network 🟡, Gafi Network ⚪, Asylum 🟢, 3DPass 🟢, Polket
Computation/AIDeitos Network 🟡, DeepBrain Chain ⚪, AI Infrastructure on Blockchain
Enable specific use-casespallet-hookpoints ⚪, Robonomics ⚪, UniversalDOT ⚪, Evercity Sustainable Finance Protocol ⚪, Fennel Protocol ⚪, logion 🟢, Me Protocol 🟢, QSTN 🟡
NFTternoa 🟡, FRAME Pallet: NFTs for Substrate ⚪, Unique NFT Parachain ⚪, DNFT ⚪, RMRK-Substrate ⚪, NT-NFTs ⚪, Green Lemon ⚪, Basilisk 🟢
RandomnessDKG and Randomness Beacon ⚪, drand-substrate-client
LicensingAnagolay Network
Banking IntegrationFIAT on-off-ramp
CrowdfundingImbue Network ⚪, Quadratic Funding pallet by Dora ⚪, Quadratic Funding pallet by OAKMinimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI)
Collection of PalletsSubstrate Open Runtime Module Library 🟢, warehouse ⚪, InvArch FRAME Pallet Library 🟢
MarketplacesDot Marketplace ⚪, Gated Marketplace ⚪, Ventur
Carbon CreditsBitGreen ⚪, Carbon Assets Pallet ⚪, Sequester Pallets
UTXOTuxedo 🟢
OtherMoonkit 🟢, Substrate Account Filter ⚪, Subtensor 🟢, AdMeta ⚪, Chocolate Node ⚪, Virto Network 🟢, Substrate Validator Set 🟢, DEIP ⚪, DeBio ⚪, MathChain ⚪, encointer 🟢, Grassland ⚪, Substrate-Tutorials ⚪, Fair Squares ⚪, Totem Live Accounting ⚪, Escrow Pallet ⚪, TREX ⚪, Relation Graph ⚪, Decentralized Invoice ⚪, Redstone Network ⚪, Access Control Pallet ⚪, Omniverse DLT ⚪, ISMP ⚪, XCMP 🟢, CORD Chain 🟢Decentralized review/reputation system

Host

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
RustSubstrate ⚪, Cumulus
C++Kagome 🟢, Mayon
GoGossamer 🟢
JavaFruzhin 🟢, Java Host Research
AssemblyScript
Light Clientsmoldot 🟢, Substrate Connect 🟢, C++ Polkadot Light Client
TestingPolkadot Conformance ⚪, Polkafuzz

Network Maintenance Tools

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
Secure validator setupPolkadot Validation Node Ansible Setup ⚪, W3F Polkadot Validator Setup ⚪, polkadot-ansible 🟡
High availability setupArchipel ⚪, Polkadot Failover Mechanism ⚪, Datagen ⚪, High Availability Validator Setup
Load Balanced Endpointsterragrunt-polkadot ⚪, Geometry Labs' Substrate Meta repo
Deployment ToolsPolkadot Package Manager ⚪, PolkaHub ⚪, Avado ⚪, Polkadot Deployer ⚪, Unified Collator Deployment
Validator monitoringONE-T ⚪, SubVT 🟢, P.A.N.I.C. ⚪, Polkalert ⚪, B-Harvest ⚪, nmonpolkadot ⚪, Polkadot-K8s-Monitor ⚪, Polkadot-Watcher ⚪, 1KV Telegram Bot
Validator payout managementSubstrate validator auto payout ⚪, Polkadot Payouts ⚪, staking-payouts CLI ⚪, Payctl ⚪, crunch 🟢
Staking MinerStaking Miner v2 🟢
Nominator ToolsValidator Selection ⚪, Polkanalyzer 🟢, Polkanalyzer-app 🟢

Signatures

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
SR25519rust ⚪(contains partial bindings for C, JavaScript, and Python), .Net bindings ⚪, C(old), C(new), C/C++ ⚪, C# ⚪, Go ⚪, java ⚪, PHP
Signature Aggregationapk-proofs
Distributed key generation (DKG) or managementkeygen.rs ⚪, Secure Wallet Origin Distribution (SWORD)
Validator HSMsZondax Remote Signer
MPCOrochi Network 🟢

Consensus

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
PoCSpartan
PoWPoW consensus for Substrate ⚪, RandomX ⚪, Sha3 PoW 🟡
Block productionBABE ⚪, Aura
FinalityGRANDPA ⚪, AlephBFT 🟢
OtherNimbus: Upgradeable consensus framework

Networking

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
SCALE CodecRust 🟢, TypeScript ⚪, Python 🟡, Golang Chainsafe 🟢, Golang Itering 🟢, C ⚪, C++ 🟡, JavaScript 🟢, AssemblyScript ⚪, Haskell ⚪, Java ⚪, Ruby ⚪, Dart ⚪, Swift ⚪, scale-codec-swift ⚪, scale-codec-kotlin ⚪, PHP ⚪, JavaScript by Soramitsu ⚪, Scale Codec Comparator 🟢, ScaleCodec.sol by Darwinia ⚪, ScaleCodec.sol by Snowfork 🟢, Dotscale
Networking Frameworklibp2p 🟡
DHT CrawlerGo ⚪, Kotlin
RPC Tor-like accessWhiteNoise

Primitives

ComponentsExisting projectsPotentially interesting projects
StorageMerkle Tree DB
Merkle ProofsSolidity Trie Verifier 🟢

Contributing

Pull requests, issues, or other contributions from the community are encouraged! You can not only add specific projects, but also potentially interesting fields/areas which are currently missing in the tech stack.

❗ All technologies listed above need to be open-source. Ideally, the links lead directly to the code.

Note: You will need a GitHub account to suggest changes or open issues. If you do not have one, you may sign up for free.