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Awesome Substrate

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Substrate is a framework for building upgradable, modular and efficient blockchains. Substrate is an open-source library of Rust code that is maintained by Parity Technologies.

Official Resources
Recordings
Workshops & Demos
Community Resources
- Community Resources - Guides
Frameworks
Templates
Pallets
Client Libraries
Ecosystem Tools
Alternative Implementations
SCALE Codec
- SCALE Codec - Implementations

Official Resources

Developer Hub - Developer portal.
- Tutorials - Guided exercises to get you started.
- Knowledge Base - In-depth documentation related to Substrate development.
- Recipes - Working code examples that solve common problems.
- Reference Docs - Rustdoc API documentation.
Seminar - Collaborative learning on Crowdcast.
Technical Chat - Ask questions & chat with other Substrate developers.
Builders Program - White-glove support for visionary teams.
Web3 Foundation Grants - Funding for ecosystem development.
Users - Teams building with Substrate.
GitHub - Substrate source code.
Developer Hub GitHub - Developer Hub repositories.
Polkadot GitHub - Substrate monorepo for multiple Parity-sponsored chains.
subport - Support repository.
Parity Blog - Read about updates in the Substrate ecosystem.
Parity Events - Upcoming events.
Twitter - Follow us to stay up-to-date.
Polkassembly - The place to discuss and vote on Kusama and Polkadot governance.

Recordings

Workshops & Demos

UTXO Workshop - Use Substrate to implement a Bitcoin-like chain.
Cumulus Wokshop - Build a parachain with Cumulus.
Enterprise Sample - A fully-featured sample that uses a supply chain use case to demonstrate Substrate’s rich set of capabilities.

Community Resources

DotLeap - Community content and newsletter.
Stack Overflow - Questions tagged substrate.
Reddit - Official subreddit.
Polkadot Stack - Another awesome list maintained by our friends at Web3 Foundation.
PolkaView - Historical data on minimum staked to be rewarded.
Subsocial - Decentralized social network for the Polkadot / Kusama ecosystem. Built on Substrate + IPFS.
DOTspot - An open-place for Substrate ecosystem projects to share their latest news.
DotJobs - A job board for the Polkadot ecosystem from the team at Stateless.Money.
Substrate Migrations - A list of past runtime storage migrations with notes and examples.
OnFinality - Free and public API services to shared Substrate based archival nodes.

Community Resources - Guides

Build Substrate in a few minutes at a low cost - Guide to using cargo remote and Google Cloud to reduce Substrate build times; written by Substrate community member Matej Nemček.

Frameworks

FRAME - An idiomatic system for building Substrate runtimes.
ink! - Smart contract language for Substrate chains.
Cumulus - Simplified Polkadot-compatible parachains.
Bridges - A collection of tools for cross-chain communication.
Frontier - End-to-end Ethereum emulation for Substrate chains.
Polkadot-JS - Rich framework for front-end development.
SubstraTEE - Trusted off-chain execution framework that uses Intel SGX trusted execution environments.
FRAME Benchmarking - The official benchmarking framework for the FRAME system for runtime development.

Templates

Node - A fresh FRAME-based node, ready for hacking.
Pallet - Easily create pluggable blockchain capabilities.
Parachain - A new Cumulus-based Substrate node, ready for hacking (see ‘Cumulus’ under Frameworks for more info).
Front-End - Use the Polkadot-JS API and React to build front-ends for Substrate-based chains.
substrate-stencil - A template for a Substrate node that includes staking and governance capabilities.

Pallets

Open Runtime Module Library (ORML) - Community maintained collection of Substrate runtime modules.
Sunshine Bounty - Distributed autonomous organization (DAO) for administering a bounty program.
Sunshine Identity - Keybase-inspired identity management.
Sunshine Faucet - Dispense resources for a development chain.
Commodities - Defines and implements a non-fungible token interface.
Chainlink Feed Pallet - Chainlink feed pallet and example node showing how to integrate to Substrate chains.

Client Libraries

subxt - Official Rust client.
Substrate API Client - Rust client maintained by Supercomputing Systems AG.
Polkadot-JS API - Semi-official JavaScript library for Substrate-based chains.
Python Substrate Interface - Maintained by Polkascan Foundation.
Go Substrate RPC Client - Maintained by Centrifuge.
Substrate C++ API - Maintained by Usetech.
Substrate .Net API - Maintained by Usetech.
Substrate .NET Standard API in nuget, and Unity 3D integration example - Maintained by DOTMog.
Kotlin Substrate Client - Maintained by Nodle.io

Ecosystem Tools

Polkadot-JS Apps UI - Semi-official block explorer & front-end for Substrate-based chains.
Polkadot-JS Extension - Browser extension for interacting with Substrate-based chains.
Polkadot Tool Index - Here is a very useful list of tools available for your development w/ Polkadot and any substrate chain including Block Explorers, Wallets, Network Monitoring & Reporting, Clients, Benchmarking, Fuzzing, Forking, SCALE Codec, CLI Tools and much more.
Sidecar - REST service that runs alongside Substrate nodes.
Archive - Indexing engine for Substrate chains.
TxWrapper - Helpful library for offline transaction creation.
Subkey - Command line utility for working with cryptographic keys.
Polkascan - Multi-chain block explorer maintained by Polkascan Foundation.
VSCode Substrate - Official plugin for Visual Studio Code.
Parity Signer - Upcycle an unused mobile phone into an air-gapped hardware wallet.
Fork Off Substrate - Script to help bootstrap a new chain with the state of a running chain.
Substrate debug-kit - A collection of tools and libraries for debugging Substrate-based chains, including offline-election, which is a tool that is used to predict nominated proof-of-stake elections.
sup - Command line tool for generating or upgrading a Substrate node.
Substrate Dev Hub Utils - Unofficial utilities for working with official Substrate Developer Hub resources.
Subscan - Multi-network explorer for Substrate-based chains.
Substrate Docker Builders - A set of Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions to auto-build and push a Docker image for Substrate-based chains.
Halva - A toolchain for improving the experience of developing on Substrate.
offchain::ipfs - Substrate infused with IPFS.
Gantree Library - A suite of technologies for managing Substrate-powered parachain networks via rapid spin-up & tear-down.
Redspot - A Truffle-like toolkit for smart contracts for the FRAME Contracts pallet.
Proxy Hot Wallet Demo - A demonstration of a secure, convenient, and flexible hot wallet architecture built on Substrate primitives.
Substrate Faucet Bot - Python-based faucet for development purposes.
Hydra - A GraphQL framework for Substrate nodes with a hosted playground. Check out the great docs.
Substrate Graph - GraphQL indexer for Substrate-based chains.
SubQuery - A GraphQL indexer and query service that allows users to easily create indexed data sources and host them online for free.
Megaclite - Zero-knowledge tools for the Polkadot ecosystem.
Europa - A sandbox for the Substrate runtime execution environment.
Jupiter - Testnet for smart contracts written for the FRAME Contracts pallet.
Staking Rewards Collector - A script to parse and output staking rewards for a given Kusama or Polkadot address and cross-reference them with daily price data.
polkadot-launch - Simple CLI tool to launch a local Polkadot test network.
substrate-js-utils - A set of useful JavaScript utilities for Substrate that uses the Polkadot{JS} API. Also deployed as a website.
substrate-graph-benchmarks - Graph the benchmark output of FRAME pallets.
substrate-balance-calculator - Breakdown the balances of your Substrate account.
substrate-balance-graph - Create a graph of the token balance over time of a Substrate address.
polkadot-js-bundle - A standalone JS bundle that contains Polkadot{JS} libraries.
substrate-society - A basic front-end for the FRAME Society pallet.
Aleph.im - Scalable, decentralized database, file storage, and computation services for Substrate chains and more.
subsee - CLI to inspect metadata of a substrate node as JSON.
polkadot-runtime-prom-exporter - A Prometheus exporter for Polkadot runtime metrics (modifable for substrate use).
subwasm - CLI to inspect a runtime WASM blob offline. It shows information, metadata and can compare runtimes. It can also help you fetch a runtime directly from a node.
srtool - Docker image to deterministically build a runtime.
srtool-cli - CLI frontend for the srtool Docker image.
srtool-actions - Github actions to easily use the srtool Docker image to build your onw runtime.

Substrate Mobile Engineering Tools / Libraries

React-Native-Substrate-Sign - Rust library for React Native.
Polkadot-Dart - Dart Substrate API.
PolkaWallet SDK- Flutter SDK for Substrate-based App.
Fearless Utils iOS - iOS Substrate tools.
Fearless Utils Android - Android Substrate tools.

Alternative Implementations

Gossamer - A Polkadot client implemented in Go; from ChainSafe.
Kagome - A C++17 implementation of the Polkadot client; from Soramitsu.
LimeChain AssemblyScript Runtime - An account-based Substrate proof-of-concept runtime written in AssemblyScript; from LimeChain.

SCALE Codec

Codec Definition - Official codec documentation.

SCALE Codec - Implementations

Parity SCALE Codec - Reference implementation written in Rust.
AssemblyScript - Maintained by LimeChain.
TypeScript - Maintained by Polkadot-JS.
Go - Maintained by Itering.
C++ - Maintained by Soramitsu.
Haskell - Maintained by Robonomics Network.
Java - Maintained by Emerald.
Ruby - Maintained by Itering.
Python - Maintained by Polkascan Foundation.

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