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sp-consensus

v0.46.0 Growing

Common utilities for building and using consensus engines in substrate.

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.8K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
1.1M
Dependents
1.8K
Releases
59
Size
29KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

155.3K downloads in the last 30 days (5.2K/day), up 124% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.8K crates depend on sp-consensus. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 658 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 6+ years old, sp-consensus hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 28KB, sp-consensus is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include polkadot-sdk, sp-blockchain, sc-client-api, sc-consensus, sc-service. When high-quality crates choose sp-consensus, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 14/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
3K/day avg+219%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.45.0
28%
v0.9.0
25%
v0.8.0
16%
v0.40.0
15%
v0.42.0
15%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
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direct dependencies
Dependents
1.8K
crates depend on sp-consensus