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cid

v0.11.1 Growing

CID in rust

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.60
#multihash#ipfs#multiformats#ipld#cid

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 2+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (3.0K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
14.4M
Dependents
3.0K
Releases
28
Size
13KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

742.0K downloads in the last 30 days (24.7K/day), up 76% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

3.0K 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 124 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 13KB, cid is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

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

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 7/25

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 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
16K/day avg+108%
010K20K30K40K12/301/172/42/223/123/29

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.9.0
37%
v0.11.1
21%
v0.10.1
21%
v0.5.1
10%
v0.8.6
10%

Release Timeline

28 releasessince 2017
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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

arbstd*allocserdescale-codecserde-codec

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
13
direct dependencies
Dependents
3.0K
crates depend on cid

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