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ethsign

v0.9.0 Growing

A library to read JSON keyfiles and sign Ethereum stuff.

GPL-3.0 Edition 2018

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 2+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)

Security

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Downloads
159.2K
Dependents
37
Releases
16
Size
24KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

3.1K downloads in the last 30 days (104/day), up 30% from the previous period.

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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 7+ years old, ethsign hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 24KB, ethsign is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tiny-hderive, nam-tiny-hderive, ethkey, ya-relay-core, tdn_did. When high-quality crates choose ethsign, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 4/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 10/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 6/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
80/day avg+76%
05010015020012/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.0
53%
v0.7.3
27%
v0.9.0
11%
v0.6.1
6%
v0.5.0
4%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["secp256k1"]

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
8
direct dependencies
Dependents
37
crates depend on ethsign