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crytic/echidna

Ethereum smart contract fuzzer observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/crytic/echidna · homepage · Haskell · AGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

89/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 71
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 103.0
  • age_days: 3293
  • days_rel: 37
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 7

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Adoption not part of the score

3170 stars · 432 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Echidna is a Haskell-based fuzzer for Ethereum smart contracts that performs property-based testing by generating sequences of contract calls to falsify user-defined invariants or Solidity assertions. It uses grammar-based fuzzing with coverage guidance, corpus collection, and Slither integration to find deep bugs in EVM contracts.

Use cases

  • fuzz my solidity smart contract for bugs
  • test that a contract invariant always holds
  • find call sequences that break my token's balance guarantees
  • property-based testing for ethereum contracts
  • check solidity assertions with random inputs
  • audit smart contracts before deployment
  • verify my defi protocol's security invariants

When to choose

  • you need to test Solidity invariants or assertions against randomized call sequences
  • you want coverage-guided fuzzing with corpus collection and test case minimization
  • you are auditing or hardening Ethereum smart contracts before deployment
  • you prefer a mature, widely adopted tool with extensive documentation and tutorials

When to avoid

  • you need parallelized fuzzing or a Go API for custom testing methodology (consider medusa)
  • your project is not EVM/Solidity based
  • you need formal verification with mathematical proofs rather than fuzzing
  • you want symbolic execution rather than input generation

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

testing fuzzing security vulnerability-scanning security blockchain developer-tools testing cli ethereum solidity evm property-based-testing smart-contract-security invariant-testing haskell smart-contracts linux macos docker

10 sources

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