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whisky

The Cardano Rust SDK, inspired by MeshJS

80 releases (16 stable)

new 1.0.17 Dec 17, 2025
1.0.16 Nov 24, 2025
1.0.14 Oct 28, 2025
1.0.9 Jun 30, 2025
0.6.10 Jul 15, 2024

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Whisky Whisky - Cardano Rust SDK

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whisky

Whisky is an open-source Cardano Rust SDK, containing following modules:

  • whisky - The core Rust crate supporting Cardano DApp development in Rust.
  • whisky-common - Serving universal types and utilities.
  • whisky-csl - The crate to implement most cardano-serialization-lib wrapper.
  • whisky-provider - The crate to connect external services like blockfrost or maestro.
  • whisky-wallet - The crate to handle wallet signing and provide key encryption utility.
  • whisky-macros - The crate to provide Rust macros utility.
  • whisky-js - An point of output for wasm package for @meshsdk/core-csl.

With whisky, you can

  • Builder transaction with cardano-cli-like APIs, supporting serious DApps’ backend on the Rust codebase.
  • Handling transaction signing in Rust
  • Interacting with blockchain with provider services like Maestro and Blockfrost
  • Off-node evaluation on transaction execution units, and updating the transaction accordingly with TxPipe's uplc integrated.

Installation

Rust Library

cargo add whisky

JS / TS WASM Lib

# For nodejs package
yarn add @sidan-lab/whisky-js-nodejs
# For browser package
yarn add @sidan-lab/whisky-js-browser

Getting Started

use whisky::*;

pub fn send_lovelace(
    recipient_address: &str,
    my_address: &str,
    inputs: &[UTxO],
) -> Result<String, WError> {
    let mut tx_builder = TxBuilder::new_core();
    tx_builder
        .tx_out(
            recipient_address,
            &[Asset::new_from_str("lovelace", "1000000")],
        )
        .change_address(my_address)
        .select_utxos_from(inputs, 5000000)
        .complete_sync(None)?;

    Ok(tx_builder.tx_hex())
}

Contributor Guides

Make sure llvm is installed

Maintainers List

  • Hinson Wong (Github Handle: HinsonSIDAN) - Maintainer
  • Tsz Wai (Github Handle: twwu123) - Maintainer
  • Ken Lau (Github Handle: kenlau666) - Maintainer
  • Anson Chui (Github Handle: AnsonSIDAN) - Project Manager

APIs

Please refer to the hosted documentation for the list of endpoints.

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Community Channel Invite

Please join SIDAN Lab's discord server for regular update using https://discord.gg/prJvB6b6p4.

Please view SIDAN Lab's dedicated channel for any SIDAN - Whisky V2 - Cardano Rust SDK with Pallas Catalyst Project Update in https://discord.com/channels/1166784293805228061/1441817320245952532.

Dependencies

~27–45MB
~764K SLoC