revm

Rust Ethereum Virtual Machine

Revm is an EVM written in Rust that is focused on speed and simplicity. It has a fast and flexible implementation with a simple interface and embedded Host. It passes all ethereum/tests test suites.

Here is a list of guiding principles that Revm follows.

EVM compatibility and stability - this goes without saying but it is nice to put it here. In the blockchain industry, stability is the most desired attribute of any system.
Speed - is one of the most important things and most decisions are made to complement this.
Simplicity - simplification of internals so that it can be easily understood and extended, and interface that can be easily used or integrated into other projects.
interfacing - [no_std] so that it can be used as wasm lib and integrate with JavaScript and cpp binding if needed.

Project

Structure:

crates
- revm -> main EVM library.
- revm-primitives -> Primitive data types.
- revm-interpreter -> Execution loop with instructions
- revm-precompile -> EVM precompiles
bins:
- revme: cli binary, used for running state test jsons

This project tends to use the newest rust version, so if you're encountering a build error try running rustup update first.

There were some big efforts on optimization of revm:

Optimizing interpreter loop: bluealloy#7
Introducing Bytecode format (and better bytecode analysis): bluealloy#121
Unification of instruction signatures: bluealloy#283

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/bluealloy/revm.git
cd revm
cargo build --release

Note: clang is required for building revm with c-kzg or secp256k1 feature flags as they depend on C libraries. If you don't have it installed, you can install it with apt install clang.

Running eth tests

go to cd bins/revme/

Download eth tests from (this will take some time): git clone https://github.com/ethereum/tests

run tests with command: cargo run --release -- statetest tests/GeneralStateTests/ tests/LegacyTests/Constantinople/GeneralStateTests

GeneralStateTests contains all tests related to EVM.

Running benchmarks

TODO needs to be updated. Benches can now be found inside crates/revm/benches

cargo run --package revm-test --release --bin snailtracer

cargo flamegraph --root --freq 4000 --min-width 0.001 --package revm-test --bin snailtracer

Running example

cargo run -p revm --features ethersdb --example fork_ref_transact

Used by:

Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
Helios is a fully trustless, efficient, and portable Ethereum light client written in Rust.
Reth Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol
Arbiter is a framework for stateful Ethereum smart-contract simulation
Zeth is an open-source ZK block prover for Ethereum built on the RISC Zero zkVM.
...

(If you want to add project to the list, ping me or open the PR)

Documentation

The book can be found at github page here: https://bluealloy.github.io/revm/

The documentation (alas needs some love) can be found here: https://bluealloy.github.io/revm/docs/

To serve the mdbook documentation in a local environment, ensure you have mdbook installed (if not install it with cargo) and then run:

mdbook serve documentation

Contact

There is public telegram group: https://t.me/+Ig4WDWOzikA3MzA0

Or if you want to hire me or contact me directly, here is my email: dragan0rakita@gmail.com and telegram: https://t.me/draganrakita

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