Awesome Ethereum Virtual
Machine
A curated list of resources on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM),
which is the virtual machine executed on the Ethereum network.
Not listed there yet, but in the spirit of 
Here is how to contribute.
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Specification
- Yellow Paper
- A terse specification of EVM and Ethereum blocks
Illustration
Tutorials
Tests
EVM Implementations
Live on Main Network
- go-ethereum
- A popular Ethereum client with its own EVM implementation (core/vm
directory)
- Parity in Rust
- Another popular Ethereum client with its own EVM implementation (ethcore
directory)
- cpp-ethereum
- An Ethereum client that generates the consensus test suite (libevm/VM.cpp)
- Pyethereum in
Python
- Py-EVM in
Python
- A Python implementation designed to be highly configurable and
modular and compliant with the Ethereum test suite, work is in progress
on it to run a full node and develop sharding.
- EthereumJ in
Java
- A client with its own EVM implementation
- For more, see here.
Other Implementations
Programming
Languages that Compile into EVM
- Solidity
- The most popular programming language for Ethereum contracts
- Awesome
Solidity
- The LLL compiler is also in the same repository
- Vyper
- A language with overflow-checking, numeric units but without
unlimited loops
- Pyramid
Scheme (experimental)
- Flint
- A language with several security features: e.g. asset types with a
restricted set of atomic operations
- LLLL
- An LLL-like compiler being implemented in Isabelle/HOL
- HAseembly-evm
- An EVM assembly implemented as a Haskell DSL
- Bamboo
(experimental) - A language without loops but with explicit
constructor invocation at the end of every call
Programming
Languages that Compile zk-SNARK Circuits and Proofs
- Zokrates
- snarky
- An OCaml front-end for writing R1CS SNARKs (parametrized over the
backend SNARK libraries)
- Shallowly embedded DSL that can be compiled into SNARK circuits
- The verifier is an OCaml function, so some more work is necessary
before using it on Ethereum
- jsnark
- A Java front-end for writing R1CS SNARKs
Debuggers
Code Analyzers
- Echidna
- A fuzzer on EVM that also takes Solidity input
- Able to fuzz a program with sequences of multiple transactions
- MAIAN
- An automatic tool that detects trace vulnerabilities (Greedy,
Prodigal and Suicidal) with depth-first search of symbolic execution of
multiple invocations
- Mythril
- A blockchain exploration tool that indexes all contracts on the
network, containing a disassembler, an ABI function detector and a
control flow analyzer
- Comes with a –fire-laser
option
- Powered by laser-ethereum
- porosity
- A reverse enginering tool, a disassembler, an ABI function detector
and a decompiler that also highlights vulnerabilities
- Manticore
- A symtolic execution engine that can generate inputs to cover
codepaths (asciicast),
which also comes with a Python API
- evmdis
- A disassembler for EVM code
- ethersplay
- Securify
- A tool that strives to achieve no false-negatives
- The implementation seems not public as of now
- Oyente
- An automatic EVM code analyzer based on symbolic execution and Z3 SMT solver
- Dr. Y’s Ethereum Contract
Analyzer
- A symbolic executor for EVM code
Improvement Proposals
- Ethereum Improvement
Proposals
- A portal for EVM & Ethereum improvements
- The soonest changes are listed in the README
- EVM
1.5
- A proposal to tame jumps so that a linear-time scan can determine
stack layouts
- eWASM
- A proposal to use a WebAssembly for Ethereum contract
execution
License of This List
Awesome Ethereum Virtual Machine
Written in 2017 by Yoichi Hirai i@yoichihirai.com
[other author/contributor lines as appropriate]
To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all
copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the
public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any
warranty.
You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication
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