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ark-bn254

v0.5.0 Growing

The BN254 pairing-friendly elliptic curve

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021
Cryptography #cryptography#finite-fields#elliptic-curves

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.0K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
17.3M
Dependents
2.0K
Releases
7
Size
14KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

1.6M downloads in the last 30 days (53.6K/day), up 21% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.0K crates depend on ark-bn254. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, ark-bn254 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 14KB, ark-bn254 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include ruint, light-poseidon, revm-precompile, ark-groth16, solana-bn254. When high-quality crates choose ark-bn254, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 19/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
43K/day avg+61%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.0
70%
v0.5.0
28%
v0.3.0
3%
v0.2.0
0%
v0.5.0-alpha.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["curve"]

stdr1cscurve*scalar_field

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
8
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.0K
crates depend on ark-bn254

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