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Ink alternatives for AI agents.

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Polkadot's ink! to write smart contracts.

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#1

Solang

Similarity 144Trust 93Excellent 100

Solidity Compiler for Solana, Polkadot and Stellar

1.4K starsMay 24, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add hyperledger-solang/solang
#2

Grants Program

Similarity 136Trust 90Excellent 96

Web3 Foundation Grants Program

1.2K starsMar 19, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsJavaScriptBlockchain
$ npx skills add w3f/Grants-Program
#3

Joystream

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 85

Joystream Monorepo

1.4K starsNov 22, 2025 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add Joystream/joystream
#4

Astar

Similarity 131Trust 85Excellent 86

The dApp hub for blockchains of the future

775 starsJun 12, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add AstarNetwork/Astar
#5

Apps

Similarity 131Trust 95Excellent 100

Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.

1.8K starsJun 7, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsTypeScriptBlockchain
$ npx skills add polkadot-js/apps
#6

Near Sdk Rs

Similarity 130Trust 86Strong 84

Rust library for writing NEAR smart contracts

507 starsJun 15, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add near/near-sdk-rs
#7

Revm

Similarity 129Trust 93Excellent 100

Rust implementation of the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

2.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add bluealloy/revm
#8

Sp1

Similarity 129Trust 95Excellent 100

SP1 is a zero‑knowledge virtual machine that proves the correct execution of programs compiled for the RISC-V architecture.

1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add succinctlabs/sp1
#9

API

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 96

Promise and RxJS APIs around Polkadot and Substrate based chains via RPC calls. It is dynamically generated based on what the Substrate runtime provides in terms of metadata.

1.1K starsMar 24, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsTypeScriptBlockchain
$ npx skills add polkadot-js/api
#10

Extension

Similarity 128Trust 91Excellent 95

Simple browser extension for managing Polkadot and Substrate network accounts in a browser. Allows the signing of extrinsics using these accounts. Also provides a simple interface for compliant extensions for dapps.

1.0K starsMar 31, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsTypeScriptBlockchain
$ npx skills add polkadot-js/extension
#11

Ckb

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

The Nervos CKB is a public permissionless blockchain, and the layer 1 of Nervos network.

1.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add nervosnetwork/ckb
#12

Alloy

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

Transports, Middleware, and Networks for the Alloy project

1.3K starsJun 11, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add alloy-rs/alloy
#13

SnarkVM

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

A zkVM for Decentralized Private Computations (DPC)

1.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add ProvableHQ/snarkVM
#14

Starcoin

Similarity 128Trust 92Excellent 100

Starcoin - A Move smart contract blockchain network that scales by layering

1.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add starcoinorg/starcoin
#15

Holochain

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 98

The current, performant & industrial strength version of Holochain on Rust.

1.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add holochain/holochain
#16

Ethrex

Similarity 124Trust 88Excellent 87

Minimalist, stable, modular, fast, and ZK native implementation of the Ethereum protocol in Rust. L1 and L2 execution client.

875 starsJun 16, 2026 pushweb3-analyticsRustBlockchain
$ npx skills add lambdaclass/ethrex

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