Open Source Polkadot Stack
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The goal of this page is to provide an overview of the open-source Polkadot/Kusama Tech Stack.
This is a living document and we are relying on our community to contribute to it 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, Kusama and Substrate. 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)
User Interface
Tools, APIs and Languages
ink Smart Contracts
| Components | Existing projects | Potentially interesting projects |
|---|---|---|
| Bridges | Dante Protocol ⚪ | |
| DeFi | ink_bank, Polkadot AMM ⚪, Vera ⚪, Nsure Insurance ⚪, Everlasting Cash ⚪, Coinversation ⚪, zenlink-dex-contract ⚪, AlgoCash ⚪ | New seigniorage-style stable coins |
| Gaming | Open Emoji Battler 🟢, NewOmega ⚪ | |
| DAO | SyncraDAO, subDAO ⚪, RainbowDAO ⚪, MangoBox ⚪ | |
| Identity/DID | AZERO.ID | |
| Spam Protection | Prosopo ⚪ | |
| Tooling | OpenBrush 🟢 | |
| Other | Candle Auctions ⚪, polkasign-contract ⚪, OCEX ⚪, Roloi ⚪, MangoSale 🟡, ArtZero 🟡 |
Chains and Pallets
Host
| Components | Existing projects | Potentially interesting projects |
|---|---|---|
| Rust | Substrate 🟢, Cumulus 🟢 | |
| C++ | Kagome 🟢, Mayon 🟡 | |
| Go | Gossamer 🟢 | |
| Java | Java Host Research ⚪ | |
| AssemblyScript | ||
| Light Client | smoldot 🟢, Substrate Connect 🟢, C++ Polkadot Light Client ⚪ |
Network Maintenance Tools
| Components | Existing projects | Potentially interesting projects |
|---|---|---|
| Secure validator setup | Polkadot Validation Node Ansible Setup 🟡, W3F Polkadot Validator Setup ⚪, polkadot-ansible ⚪ | |
| High availability setup | Archipel ⚪, Polkadot Failover Mechanism ⚪, Datagen ⚪, High Availability Validator Setup 🟡 | |
| Load Balanced Endpoints | terragrunt-polkadot ⚪, Geometry Labs' Substrate Meta repo ⚪ | |
| Deployment Tools | Polkadot Package Manager ⚪, PolkaHub ⚪, Avado ⚪, Polkadot Deployer ⚪, Unified Collator Deployment 🟡 | |
| Validator monitoring | ONE-T 🟢, SubVT ⚪, P.A.N.I.C. ⚪, Polkalert ⚪, B-Harvest ⚪, nmonpolkadot ⚪, Polkadot-K8s-Monitor 🟡, Polkadot-Watcher 🟡, 1KV Telegram Bot ⚪ | |
| Validator payout management | Substrate validator auto payout ⚪, Polkadot Payouts ⚪, staking-payouts CLI 🟡, Payctl ⚪, crunch 🟢 | |
| Staking Miner | Staking Miner v2 🟢 | |
| Nominator Tools | Validator Selection 🟡, Polkanalyzer 🟢, Polkanalyzer-app |
Signatures
| Components | Existing projects | Potentially interesting projects |
|---|---|---|
| SR25519 | rust 🟡(contains partial bindings for C, JavaScript, and Python), .Net bindings ⚪, C ⚪(old), C 🟢(new), C/C++ ⚪, C# ⚪, Go 🟢, java ⚪, PHP ⚪ | |
| Signature Aggregation | apk-proofs 🟢 | |
| Distributed key generation (DKG) or management | keygen.rs ⚪, Secure Wallet Origin Distribution (SWORD) ⚪ | |
| Validator HSMs | Zondax Remote Signer ⚪ |
Consensus
| Components | Existing projects | Potentially interesting projects |
|---|---|---|
| PoC | Spartan ⚪ | |
| PoW | PoW consensus for Substrate 🟢, RandomX ⚪, Sha3 PoW ⚪ | |
| Block production | BABE 🟢, Aura 🟢 | |
| Finality | GRANDPA 🟢, AlephBFT 🟢 | |
| Other | Nimbus: Upgradeable consensus framework 🟢 |
Networking
| Components | Existing projects | Potentially interesting projects |
|---|---|---|
| DHT crawler | Go ⚪, Kotlin ⚪ | |
| RPC Tor-like access | WhiteNoise ⚪ |
Primitives
| Components | Existing projects | Potentially interesting projects |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | Merkle Tree DB 🟢 | |
| Merkle Proofs | Solidity 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.