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    #80 this week

    Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.

    blockchain
    web3
    testing
    alloy
    bytecode
    compiler
    compilers
    dapp
    Rust
    Apache-2.0
    10.7K stars
    2.7K forks
    10.7K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 18, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #80 of 3,103 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 3%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 446 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #61 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 11, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a fast, modular toolkit for Ethereum smart contract development including building, testing, debugging, and deploying Solidity and Vyper contracts.
    • Delivers blazing-fast compilation and testing speeds with incremental compilation, parallelized pipelines, and built-in fuzz and invariant testing.
    • Use for developing and testing Solidity smart contracts with integrated fuzzing and debugging in a high-performance Rust-based environment.
    • Use for running a local Ethereum development node with mainnet forking to simulate and test blockchain interactions efficiently.
    • Use for command-line interaction with Ethereum contracts and chain data, enabling transaction sending, tracing, and querying via a Swiss Army knife tool.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Need help getting started with Foundry? Read the 📖 Foundry Docs!

    Next, run foundryup.

    It will automatically install the latest version of the precompiled binaries: forge, cast, anvil, and chisel.

    For additional details see the installation guide in the Foundry Docs.

    If you're experiencing any issues while installing, check out Getting Help and the FAQ.

    Excerpt from the foundry-rs/foundry README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Jul 31: +4Aug 5: +2Aug 6: +3Sep 27: +0

    +145 stars over 80 days across 12 snapshot days; best day +4 on Jul 31.

    Forks

    2.7K+89

    Open issues

    251-114

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