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CardanoVSC
VS Code extension for Cardano smart contract development, with Haskell and Plutus syntax highlighting, code completion, on-chain queries via Blockfrost and CardanoScan, and script-address generation from compiled Plutus contracts.
Developer EnvironmentsHaskell
Cardano on BigQuery
Full Cardano mainnet dataset on Google BigQuery, updated hourly, verified each epoch, and queryable with standard SQL.
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hydra-sdk
TypeScript SDK for building wallet apps on Hydra, with Head lifecycle management, transaction building inside a Head, and WASM bindings for browser and Node.
SDKs & LibrariesTypeScript
plutus-halo2-verifier-gen
Generates on-chain verifiers in Plinth or Aiken from a Rust Halo2 circuit, so its zero-knowledge proofs can be verified inside Cardano validators.
Smart ContractsRustHaskell
gnark-cardano
Pipeline for writing Groth16 zero-knowledge circuits in Go with gnark and verifying them on-chain with a generic Aiken verifier.
Smart ContractsGoPython

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