Stellar Community Fund

By AssemblyScript Soroban SDK

AssemlyScript smart contracts SDK

SCF #10

$59.0K

Legacy v3.0 Award

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Develop Stellar smart contracts with ease!

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We want to provide an open source, free AssemblyScript smart contracts SDK, that will help developers implement smart contracts for Stellar. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has decided to build a native smart contract platform on Stellar. The project is called Jump Cannon and is being built on a WebAssembly (WASM) runtime. It should be implemented by the end of 2022.

WASM is a low-level byte code format designed to be fast to parse and to execute. Developers will write Stellar smart contracts in a “human readable” programming language that provides a toolchain having WASM as a compilation target. For example, Rust or AssemblyScript.

In similar environments, Rust is often used as the programming language. It has been the most popular and loved programming language for over five years in a row. However, Rust is harder to learn for web developers. AssemblyScript, on the other hand, is easier to learn for JavaScript and TypeScript developers because it is a dialect of TypeScript.

With our open source AssemblyScript smart contracts SDK, we want to ease the smart contract development process especially for web developers by providing a contract library, documentation, and examples of smart contracts built with the SDK.