Rust implementation of an Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) relayer.
This project comprises primarily of 6 crates:
ibc-relayerprovides an implementation of an IBC relayer, as a library.ibc-relayer-cliis a CLI (a wrapper over theibc-relayerlibrary), comprising thehermesbinary.ibc-chain-registryprovides functions to fetch data from the chain registry and automatically generate chain configuration for Hermes.ibc-telemetryis a library for use in the Hermes CLI, for gathering telemetry data and exposing that in a Prometheus endpoint.ibc-relayer-restis a library for use in the Hermes CLI, for exposing a REST API to inspect the state of the relayer.ibc-test-frameworkprovides the infrastructure and framework for writing end-to-end (E2E) tests that include the spawning of the relayer together with Cosmos full nodes.
See the table below for more details.
⚠️ Theibcandibc-protocrates have been moved to their own repositories.
The repository also includes TLA+ specifications.
| Crate name | Type | Version | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibc-relayer-cli | bin: hermes |  |
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| ibc-relayer | lib |  |
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| ibc-chain-registry | lib |  |
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| ibc-relayer-rest | lib |  |
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| ibc-telemetry | lib |  |
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| ibc-test-framework | lib |  |
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The crates in this project require Rust 1.71.0.
We have a comprehensive guide at hermes.informal.systems.
IBC is specified in English in the cosmos/ibc repo. Any protocol changes or clarifications should be contributed there.
This repo contains the TLA+ specification and Rust implementation for the IBC modules and relayer. If you're interested in contributing, please comment on an issue or open a new one!
See also CONTRIBUTING.md.
We follow Semantic Versioning, though APIs are still under active development.
Copyright © 2023 Informal Systems Inc. and Hermes authors.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use the files in this repository except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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