A zig library to interact with EVM blockchains

Zabi aims to add support for interacting with ethereum or any compatible EVM based chain.

Zabi will follow the master branch of ziglang as best as possible.

You can install the latest version of zig here or you can also use a version manager like zvm to manage your zig version.

In the build.zig.zon file, add the following to the dependencies object.

.zabi = .{
    .url = "https://github.com/Raiden1411/zabi/archive/VERSION_NUMBER.tar.gz",
}

The compiler will produce a hash mismatch error, add the .hash field to build.zig.zon with the hash the compiler tells you it found. You can also use zig fetch to automatically do the above steps.

zig fetch --save https://github.com/Raiden1411/zabi/archive/VERSION_NUMBER.tar.gz 
zig fetch --save git+https://github.com/Raiden1411/zabi.git#LATEST_COMMIT

To install zabi with the latest zig version you can install it like so

zig fetch --save git+https://github.com/Raiden1411/zabi.git#zig_version_0.14.0

Zabi will only maintain the latest version available. So when 0.15.0 eventually releases it use that and 0.14.0 will no longer be supported and so on. This should only be until zig reaches 1.0.

Then in your build.zig file add the following to the exe section for the executable where you wish to have zabi available.

const zabi_module = b.dependency("zabi", .{}).module("zabi");
// for exe, lib, tests, etc.
exe.root_module.addImport("zabi", zabi_module);

Now in the code, you can import components like this:

const zabi = @import("zabi");
const meta = zabi.meta;
const encoder = zabi.encoder;

Zabi is a modular library meaning that you can import separete modules if you just need some components of zabi.

const zabi = b.dependency("zabi", .{});
// for exe, lib, tests, etc.
exe.root_module.addImport("zabi-evm", zabi.module("zabi-evm"));

Now in the code, you can import components like this:

const zabi_evm = @import("zabi-evm");

Currently these are all of the modules available for you to use in zabi:

• zabi -> contains all modules.
• zabi-abi -> contains all abi types and eip712.
• zabi-ast -> contains a solidity tokenizer, parser and Ast.
• zabi-clients -> contains all supported RPC clients and a block explorer clients.
• zabi-crypto -> contains the signer used in zabi as well BIP32 and BIP39
• zabi-decoding -> contains all decoding methods supported.
• zabi-encoding -> contains all encoding methods supported.
• zabi-evm -> contains the EVM interpreter.
• zabi-human -> contains a custom human readable abi parser.
• zabi-meta -> contains all of the meta programming utils used in zabi.
• zabi-types -> contains all of the types used in zabi.
• zabi-utils -> contains all of the utils used in zabi as well as the custom cli parser data generator.

You can check of the examples in the example/ folder but for a simple introduction you can checkout the bellow example.

const args_parser = @import("zabi").utils.args;
const std = @import("std");
const clients = @import("zabi").clients;

const HttpProvider = clients.Provider.HttpProvider;
const Wallet = clients.Wallet;

const CliOptions = struct {
    priv_key: [32]u8,
    url: []const u8,
};

pub fn main() !void {
    var gpa = std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator(.{}){};
    defer _ = gpa.deinit();

    var iter = try std.process.argsWithAllocator(gpa.allocator());
    defer iter.deinit();

    const parsed = args_parser.parseArgs(CliOptions, gpa.allocator(), &iter);

    const uri = try std.Uri.parse(parsed.url);
    var provider = try HttpProvider.init(.{
        .allocator = gpa.allocator(),
        .network_config = .{ .endpoint = .{ .uri = uri } },
    });
    defer provider.deinit();

    var wallet = try Wallet.init(parsed.priv_key, gpa.allocator(), &provider.provider, false);
    defer wallet.deinit();

    const message = try wallet.signEthereumMessage("Hello World");

    const hexed = try message.toHex(wallet.allocator);
    defer gpa.allocator().free(hexed);

    std.debug.print("Ethereum message: {s}\n", .{hexed});
}

• Json RPC with support for http/s, ws/s and ipc connections.
• EVM Interpreter that you can use to run contract bytecode.
• Wallet instances and contract instances to use for interacting with nodes/json rpc.
• Wallet nonce manager that uses a json rpc as a source of truth.
• BlockExplorer support. Only the free methods from those api endpoints are supported.
• Custom Secp256k1 ECDSA signer using only Zig and implementation of RFC6979 nonce generator.
• Custom Schnorr signer. BIP0340 and ERC-7816 are both supported.
• Custom JSON Parser that can be used to deserialize and serialized RPC data at runtime.
• Custom solidity tokenizer and parser generator.
• Ability to translate solidity source code to zig.
• ABI to zig types.
• Support for EIP712.
• Support for EIP3074 authorization message. Also supports EIP7702 transactions.
• Parsing of human readable ABIs into zig types with custom Parser and Lexer.
• HD Wallet and Mnemonic passphrases.
• RLP Encoding/Decoding.
• SSZ Encoding/Decoding.
• ABI Encoding/Decoding with support for Log topics encoding and decoding.
• Parsing of encoded transactions and serialization of transaction objects.
• Support for all transaction types and the new EIP4844 KZG commitments.
• Support for OPStack and ENS.
• Custom meta programming functions to translate ABI's into zig types.
• Support for interacting with test chains such as Anvil or Hardhat.
• Custom cli args parser that translates commands to zig types and can be used to pass data to methods.
• Custom data generator usefull for fuzzing.

And a lot more yet to come...

The goal of zabi is to be one of the best library to use by the ethereum ecosystem and to expose to more people to the zig programming language.

Contributions to Zabi are greatly appreciated! If you're interested in contributing to ZAbi, feel free to create a pull request with a feature or a bug fix.
You can also read the contributing guide before submitting a pull request

If you find Zabi useful or use it for work, please consider supporting development on GitHub Sponsors or sending crypto to zzabi.eth or interacting with the drip platform where 40% of the revenue gets sent to zabi's dependencies. Thank you 🙏