Rust algonaut

A Rust SDK for the Algorand blockchain. Pre-1.0 — the API is stabilising but still moves between minor versions.

Highlights

• Async clients for algod v2, kmd v1, and indexer v2
• One-call transaction builders for payments, asset config / transfer / freeze / clawback, application calls, key registration, and state proofs
• A typestate AtomicGroupBuilder — bundle transactions and ARC-4 ABI calls, then simulate, sign, and execute
• Typed contract clients generated at compile time from an ARC-4 ABI or a full ARC-56 app spec (contract!) — typed-struct args, a deploy constructor, state readers, and ARC-28 events — or compile-time-checked one-off calls with abi_call!
• An open, async Signer trait: Account out of the box, or plug in an HSM, remote KMS, or WalletConnect
• TEAL compile / disassemble + V3 source-map decoder
• Cucumber acceptance suite that exercises the algorand-sdk-testing harness end-to-end

Quickstart: an atomic group

Generate a typed client from an ARC-56 app spec with contract!, deploy it straight from the spec, call a method with a typed-struct argument, dry-run the group with simulate, then sign and execute the very same group — the headline algonaut flow. Raw transactions (payments, asset ops) drop into the same group via add_transaction. See examples/arc56_client.rs for the fully annotated version (events, defaults, lifecycle actions, and more).

use algonaut::Algod;
use algonaut::atomic::AtomicGroupBuilder;
use algonaut::transaction::Signer;
use algonaut::transaction::account::Account;
use std::sync::Arc;
use std::{env, error::Error};

// `contract!` reads an ARC-56 "Extended App Description" at compile time and
// generates a typed `Vault` client: a `deploy` constructor that compiles the
// spec's TEAL, the named `Pair` struct as a typed argument, one builder per ABI
// method, and `global_*` readers that decode state per the spec's declared types.
algonaut::contract!("contracts/vault.arc56.json");

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
    let algod = Algod::new(&env::var("ALGOD_URL")?, &env::var("ALGOD_TOKEN")?)?;

    let alice = Account::from_mnemonic(&env::var("ALICE_MNEMONIC")?)?;
    let sender = alice.address();

    // A signer is shared as `Arc<dyn Signer>`: `Account` here, but any HSM,
    // remote KMS, or WalletConnect impl drops in the same way.
    let signer: Arc<dyn Signer> = Arc::new(alice);

    let params = algod.suggested_params().await?;

    // Deploy straight from the spec: `deploy` compiles the contract's TEAL,
    // submits the app-create with the declared state schema, and hands back a
    // client bound to the new app id — no hand-managed `AppId`.
    let vault = Vault::deploy(&algod, sender, Arc::clone(&signer), &params).await?;
    println!("deployed Vault as app {}", vault.app_id().0);

    // `Pair` is the Rust struct generated for the ARC-56 `Pair`; `store` won't
    // compile unless the spec declares it and the field types line up.
    let store = vault.store(Pair { first: 2, second: 3 }).build(&params);
    let group = AtomicGroupBuilder::new().add_method_call(store).build()?;

    // `simulate` borrows the group, so we dry-run it before touching a key; then
    // `sign` (async — a wallet may await approval) and `execute` the same group.
    group.simulate(&algod).await?;
    let outcome = group.sign().await?.execute(&algod).await?;
    println!("confirmed in round {:?}", outcome.confirmed_round);

    // Global state, decoded per the key's declared ARC-56 type.
    println!("total = {:?}", vault.global_total(&algod).await?);
    Ok(())
}

What's new since 0.4.2

algonaut rested at 0.4.2 for years; the 0.5–0.8 line is a ground-up modernization, and the example above is the API as it stands today:

• 0.5 — Rust 2024 edition (MSRV 1.85); ring swapped for ed25519-dalek, so wasm32 builds need no C toolchain; workspace-wide dependency refresh; lefthook + make ci.
• 0.6 — simulate and dry-run request builders, a TEAL V3 source-map decoder, and domain types that serialize to both JSON and msgpack.
• 0.7 — identifier newtypes (AppId, AssetId, TransactionId) at the client boundary, block / account-resource / ledger-delta endpoints, and msgpack response decoding.
• 0.8 — an open, async Signer trait (HSM / remote KMS / WalletConnect friendly), the typestate AtomicGroupBuilder shown above, compile-time-checked ARC-4 calls via abi_call!, Cargo feature gates for clients (algod, indexer, kmd), and structured error types with full source-chaining.
• unreleased — contract! now generates a typed client from a full ARC-56 app spec: a deploy constructor, typed-struct arguments, global_* state readers, ARC-28 events, and a read-only simulate path, extending the earlier ARC-4 support.

Each decision is recorded as an ADR under docs/adr/; CHANGELOG.md has the full entry-by-entry history.

Workspace layout

Crate	Purpose
algonaut	Top-level crate: the atomic group builder, simulate/dryrun helpers, and re-exports
algonaut_algod	Generated client for the algod v2 REST API
algonaut_kmd	Client for the key-management daemon
algonaut_indexer	Client for the indexer v2 REST API
algonaut_core	Core types: Address, MicroAlgos, Round, AppId/AssetId/TransactionId, keys, multisig
algonaut_crypto	Ed25519 sign/verify (via ed25519-dalek) and BIP-39 mnemonics
algonaut_transaction	Transaction builders and the open Signer trait
algonaut_abi	ARC-4 ABI types, method encoding, TEAL source-map decoder
algonaut_abi_model	Pure serde data model for ARC-4 / ARC-56 app-spec JSON, shared by the runtime and the macros
algonaut_abi_sig	ARC-4 signature/type grammar shared by the macros and the runtime
algonaut_abi_macros	contract! client generator plus abi_call! / abi_method! compile-time-checked ABI proc-macros
algonaut_encoding	Shared serde visitors and base32/base64 helpers
algonaut_model	Hand-written response models shared between the clients

Running the examples

/examples has a wide set of runnable programs.

cp examples.env .env       # ALGOD_URL, KMD_URL, INDEXER_URL, mnemonics
cargo run --example quickstart

If you see Error: NotPresent, your environment variables aren't set — cp examples.env .env and edit as needed.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

Contributing

Read the contribution guidelines before opening a PR. The pre-commit hook runs make ci; commit messages follow Conventional Commits.

Acknowledgements

This crate is based on the work of @mraof.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

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