10 alternatives to go-ethereum

ethereum/go-ethereum — Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol (51,404 stars, LGPL-3.0, database, security, infra).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 1,007 licence-cleared components from ethereum/go-ethereum itself.

The alternatives in detail

• fuellabs/fuel-core
  Rust full node implementation of the Fuel v2 protocol.
  score 6.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 56,786 stars · 614 components · search them
• mark3labs/mcp-go
  A Go implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools.
  score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 9,179 stars · 90 components · search them
• shardeum/shardeum
  Shardeum is an EVM based autoscaling blockchain
  score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 31,183 stars · 153 components · search them · alternatives
• unionlabs/union
  The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance.
  score 7.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 73,734 stars · 1,585 components · search them
• fiware/canismajor
  CanisMajor is a blockchain adaptor that supports various DLT, the adaptor aims to submit the data to DLT using FIWARE Technologies.
  score 6.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 9 stars · 30 components · search them
• tus/tusd
  Reference server implementation in Go of tus: the open protocol for resumable file uploads
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 3,908 stars · 45 components · search them
• mailgun/mailgun-mcp-server
  Implementation of Model Context Protocol server for Mailgun APIs
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 63 stars · 14 components · search them
• amark/gun
  An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.
  score 4.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 19,157 stars · 112 components · search them
• scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth-2
  Open source forkable Ethereum dev stack
  score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 2,057 stars · 71 components · search them
• icefiredb/icefiredb
  @IceFireLabs -> IceFireDB is a database built for web3.0 It strives to fill the gap between web2 and web3.0 with a friendly database experience, making web3 application data storage more convenient, and making it easier
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,160 stars · 186 components · search them

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