Developer Tools

NFT Marketplaces & Minting

Anvil is a Cardano build shop and platform whose products include an NFT and token minting service, a staking and rewards platform, an SDK and a REST API for transaction building and smart-contract deployment.

Identity & Real World

Hyperledger Identus is the self-sovereign identity stack contributed by Input Output and formerly known as Atala PRISM, covering decentralized identifiers, verifiable credentials, a DIDComm mediator and wallet SDKs.

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cardano-cli is the official command-line tool for talking to a Cardano node, covering key and address management, transaction building, stake pool operations and governance actions.

Wallets

UTXOS offers wallet-as-a-service with social login and sponsored transactions for Cardano, Bitcoin and Spark, keeping wallets non-custodial while removing fee friction for users.

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MeshJS is a TypeScript SDK for Cardano dApps, providing a transaction builder, React components, wallet connectors, NFT minting helpers and smart-contract integrations.

Infrastructure & Oracles

Ogmios is a lightweight bridge that exposes the Cardano node's mini-protocols over JSON-RPC and WebSockets, so applications can sync the chain and submit transactions without speaking the binary protocol.

Developer Tools

The StakePool Operator Scripts are a maintained script collection for creating and running a Cardano stake pool, managing DRep keys and submitting governance actions, with Ledger and Trezor support.

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The Guild Operators suite is a community-maintained toolkit and documentation set for running Cardano stake pool infrastructure, including the widely used cntools and gLiveView scripts.

Identity & Real World

blocktrust builds decentralized identity tooling on Cardano, including an identity wallet, a DIDComm mediator, credential issuance and verification tools and an analytics platform.

Infrastructure & Oracles

Blockfrost is a hosted Cardano API that gives developers instant, scalable access to chain data and transaction submission without running their own node, including a free tier.

Infrastructure & Oracles

Blink Labs builds open-source nodes, protocol libraries, indexers and data services for UTxO blockchains, and co-operates the Demeter managed Cardano API service with TxPipe.

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Hydra SDK is a TypeScript kit from Vtechcom for building Cardano and Hydra layer 2 applications, covering wallet connections, transaction building and Hydra head management.

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The Cardano Developer Portal is the Cardano Foundation's documentation hub for builders, with getting-started guides, a builder-tools catalog and integration how-tos.

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Cardano Signer signs and verifies data with Cardano keys, generating CIP-8, CIP-30 and CIP-36 payloads and signing CIP-100, CIP-108 and CIP-119 governance documents.

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cardano-js-sdk is Input Output's JavaScript SDK for Cardano, bundling key management options and hardware-wallet support for building wallet-grade applications.

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Anastasia Labs provides Cardano smart-contract auditing, protocol design and development services, and maintains open-source tooling including Lucid Evolution.

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Vacuumlabs is a fintech product engineering company and long-standing Cardano contributor, responsible for hardware-wallet integrations and the AdaLite wallet.

Infrastructure & Oracles

Demeter is a managed platform for Cardano dApp infrastructure, giving teams hosted nodes, indexers and APIs they can scale without running servers themselves.

Infrastructure & Oracles

TxPipe builds open-source Cardano infrastructure, including the Oura event stream, the Pallas libraries, the Dolos data node and the Demeter hosting platform.

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Agrow Labs is an enterprise blockchain development firm building on Cardano, covering supply chain traceability, cross-chain bridges and smart contract work.

Infrastructure & Oracles

dcSpark builds blockchain products focused on interoperability and composability, and maintains Cardano developer libraries and the Milkomeda sidechain work.

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MLabs is a Haskell and Cardano engineering firm that builds and formally verifies high-assurance software, including smart contracts and protocol components.

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Gastronomy is a UPLC debugger from Sundae Labs with time-travel and step-by-step execution for inspecting Cardano smart contracts, integrated with Aiken.

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pg_cardano is a PostgreSQL extension adding Cardano cryptographic functions, address encoding and decoding and chain data processing inside the database.

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Aiken is a modern smart-contract platform for Cardano: a purpose-built language, compiler, test runner and toolchain that produces Plutus validators.

Infrastructure & Oracles

Tangocrypto offers Cardano APIs, webhooks and no-code tools so teams can read chain data and react to on-chain events without running infrastructure.

DAOs & Governance

EMURGO is one of Cardano's founding entities, providing blockchain products, services and commercial support for organizations building on Cardano.

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Cardano Client Lib is a Java library for building Cardano transactions, minting tokens, deriving addresses and working with CIP standards.

Infrastructure & Oracles

cardano-db-sync follows the Cardano chain and writes blocks and transactions into PostgreSQL, providing the relational backend most Cardano explorers and analytics tools rely on.

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Yaci DevKit spins up a local Cardano devnet in seconds so developers can build and test dApps and smart contracts against a private chain.

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Obsidian Systems is a functional-programming engineering firm that has built Cardano infrastructure and high-assurance software for capital markets and other regulated settings.

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cardano-multiplatform-lib is dcSpark's Rust implementation of Cardano data structures with bindings for multiple platforms, used as a serialization layer by wallets and dApps.

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IntelliAda is an IntelliJ IDEA plugin that brings Cardano node configuration, account management and transaction tooling into the IDE.

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SAIB is a Philippines-based engineering firm delivering Cardano and broader blockchain software, and maintains the Argus .NET indexer.

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The Cardano Serialization Library is EMURGO's Rust library for serializing and deserializing Cardano ledger data structures, with bindings used widely in wallets and dApps.

Infrastructure & Oracles

cardano-rosetta-java is a lightweight Java implementation of the Mesh (formerly Rosetta) integration API for Cardano, built on Yaci Store for a smaller resource footprint.