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bellman

v0.14.0 Growing

zk-SNARK library

MIT/Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.60

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 3+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 157 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
1.9M
Dependents
157
Releases
23
Size
70KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

135.4K downloads in the last 30 days (4.5K/day), up 45% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

157 crates depend on bellman. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 99 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 10+ years old, bellman hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include zcash_proofs, sapling-crypto, midnight-zk-stdlib, zebra-consensus, zeekit. When high-quality crates choose bellman, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 4/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 9/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
3K/day avg+25%
02K4K6K8K10K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.14.0
59%
v0.13.1
20%
v0.8.1
14%
v0.11.1
5%
v0.13.0
2%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["groth16", "multicore"]

groth16*multicore*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
19
direct dependencies
Dependents
157
crates depend on bellman