ark-bn254
v0.6.0 GrowingThe BN254 pairing-friendly elliptic curve
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 29d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (2.3K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
1.8M downloads in the last 30 days (61.6K/day), up 17% from the previous period.
2.3K crates depend on ark-bn254. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 5+ years old, ark-bn254 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 24KB, ark-bn254 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include ruint, light-poseidon, revm-precompile, ark-r1cs-std, ark-groth16. When high-quality crates choose ark-bn254, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["curve"]
