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cid

v0.11.3 Growing

CID in rust

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.81
#multihash#ipfs#multiformats#ipld#cid

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 28d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (3.3K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
15.7M
Dependents
3.3K
Releases
30
Size
18KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

656.8K downloads in the last 30 days (21.9K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Widely adopted

3.3K crates depend on cid. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 126 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 9+ years old, cid hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 18KB, cid is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include litep2p, sc-network, ipfs-unixfs, fvm_shared, libipld-core. When high-quality crates choose cid, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 16/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 16/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
23K/day avg-17%
010K20K30K40K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.9.0
40%
v0.11.1
26%
v0.10.1
22%
v0.8.6
11%
v0.8.5
1%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

arbstd*allocserdescale-codecserde-codec

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
12
direct dependencies
Dependents
3.3K
crates depend on cid

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