Awesome Substrate 
An awesome list is a list of awesome things curated by the community.
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.
Contents
Official Resources
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.
- 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.
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
Client Libraries
- 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.
- 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.
Alternative Implementations
SCALE Codec
SCALE Codec - Implementations