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Consensus projects on GitHub

Distributed consensus algorithms keeping replicated state in agreement.

As of , the most-starred Consensus projects on GitHub are node (68.3K stars), etcd (52.4K stars) and go-ethereum (51.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 23 Consensus repositories with 472.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was solana-classic, with +57 stars in a day.

23Projects
472.7KStars in total
+94Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+57

solana-classic

solana-classic/solana-classic · ★ 443

Solana Classic is an open-source SVM blockchain built with Solana's Agave engine, run as an independent network whose roadmap is dedicated to art, NFTs and memes instead of treating them as a side category. It currently runs an experimental devnet with a single validator.

+11

go-ethereum

ethereum/go-ethereum · ★ 51.4K

Go-ethereum (geth) is the Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol — the main CLI client used to run a full Ethereum node, sync the blockchain, and expose JSON-RPC APIs to interact with the network.

+6

etcd

etcd-io/etcd · ★ 52.4K

A distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system, written in Go and kept consistent across machines with the Raft consensus algorithm.

+5

rqlite

rqlite/rqlite · ★ 17.8K

rqlite is a lightweight, fault-tolerant distributed relational database built on SQLite — think etcd, but with relational modeling — built to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.

The all-time top

23 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · base/node

    node

    A Docker build for running a Base node. Base is a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly Ethereum L2 built on Optimism's OP Stack, with base-reth-node as the execution client and base-consensus as the consensus client.

    68.3K
  2. #2 · etcd-io/etcd

    etcd

    A distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system, written in Go and kept consistent across machines with the Raft consensus algorithm.

    52.4K
  3. #3 · ethereum/go-ethereum

    go-ethereum

    Go-ethereum (geth) is the Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol — the main CLI client used to run a full Ethereum node, sync the blockchain, and expose JSON-RPC APIs to interact with the network.

    51.4K
  1. 4

    anoma

    33.6Kanoma/anoma · Elixir

    Anoma is the reference implementation of the Anoma protocol - a distributed, peer-to-peer system combining blockchain-style consensus and cryptography, written mainly in Elixir with a Rust component.

  2. 5

    shardeum

    31.2Kshardeum/shardeum · TypeScript

    Shardeum is an EVM-compliant blockchain platform that uses dynamic state sharding to scale horizontally, aiming for faster processing and lower transaction costs without sacrificing security or decentralization.

  3. 6

    whitepaper

    20.1Kunicitynetwork/whitepaper · TeX

    This repository hosts the Unicity protocol whitepaper and its companion papers, describing the 'Autonomous Agentic Internet', the protocol's system model, tokenomics, and how the network components fit together.

  4. 7

    system-design-resources

    18.5KInterviewReady/system-design-resources

    A curated collection of the best System Design resources on the Internet — one README that organizes engineering writeups, papers and talks into a topic-by-topic reading list.

  5. 8

    rqlite

    17.8Krqlite/rqlite · Go

    rqlite is a lightweight, fault-tolerant distributed relational database built on SQLite — think etcd, but with relational modeling — built to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.

  6. 9

    brpc

    17.6Kapache/brpc · C++

    bRPC is an industrial-grade C++ RPC framework built at Baidu for high-performance systems like search, storage, machine learning, advertisement and recommendation; the name stands for 'better RPC'.

  7. 10

    tigerbeetle

    17.2Ktigerbeetle/tigerbeetle · Zig

    TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for mission-critical safety and performance, designed to power OLTP (online transaction processing) workloads for decades to come using debit/credit transfer primitives.

  8. 11

    tikv

    16.9Ktikv/tikv · Rust

    An open-source, distributed, transactional key-value database. Unlike traditional NoSQL systems, it offers not only classical key-value APIs but also transactional APIs with ACID compliance.

  9. 12

    fabric

    16.7Khyperledger/fabric · Go

    Hyperledger Fabric is an enterprise-grade permissioned distributed ledger (blockchain) framework for building distributed ledger solutions and applications, with a modular architecture that balances confidentiality, resiliency and scalability.

  10. 13

    diem

    16.7Kdiem/diem · Rust

    Diem Core is the prototype implementation of the Diem blockchain (formerly Libra) — a decentralized, programmable distributed ledger meant to provide financial infrastructure for a global payment network.

  11. 14

    canopy

    14.7Kcanopy-network/canopy · Go

    Canopy is the official Go implementation of the Canopy Network Protocol, a recursive blockchain framework where new chains bootstrap off a 'seed chain' to launch with built-in security and consensus instead of starting from scratch.

  12. 15

    EIPs

    14Kethereum/EIPs · Python

    It is the official repository of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) — technical standards documents that specify improvements to Ethereum itself and conventions built upon it.

  13. 16

    zookeeper

    12.8Kapache/zookeeper · Java

    Apache ZooKeeper is an open-source Java service for coordinating distributed systems — its repo topics cover coordination, consensus, configuration management, service discovery and a distributed key-value store.

  14. 17

    nebula

    12.4Kvesoft-inc/nebula · C++

    NebulaGraph is an open-source distributed graph database built to handle large volumes of highly connected data with millisecond latency and quick horizontal scaling.

  15. 18

    awesome-distributed-systems

    12.4Ktheanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems

    A curated reading list for learning distributed systems: papers, books, courses, videos, and blog posts organized by topic, inspired by awesome-python style lists.

  16. 19

    talent-plan

    11Kpingcap/talent-plan · Rust

    An open source training program initiated by PingCAP: a set of courses on open source collaboration, Rust programming, distributed systems and distributed databases.

  17. 20

    yugabyte-db

    10.6Kyugabyte/yugabyte-db · C

    YugabyteDB is an open-source, PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database. It combines the transactional correctness of a traditional RDBMS with the horizontal scalability of NoSQL systems, aimed at business-critical cloud-native OLTP apps.

  18. 21

    quip-validator

    5.6KQuipNetwork/quip-validator · Rust

    Quip Validator is the Rust node software for the Quip Network, a Substrate-based solochain blockchain that was forked from the Substrate framework.

  19. 22

    solana-classic

    443solana-classic/solana-classic · Rust

    Solana Classic is an open-source SVM blockchain built with Solana's Agave engine, run as an independent network whose roadmap is dedicated to art, NFTs and memes instead of treating them as a side category. It currently runs an experimental devnet with a single validator.

  20. 23

    BlockNetDiamond

    117lgomesappj/BlockNetDiamond · JavaScript

    BlockNetDiamond is a library that implements a distributed ledger with a consensus-driven architecture, aimed at developers who need a straightforward building block for cryptographic security.

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