aries-vcx

The repository contains

• Rust library aries-vcx implementing Aries protocols,
• collection of supporting projects.

If you are Rust 🦀 developer

You can build your Rust project on top of

• aries-vcx - ready to go Rust library to work with Aries protocols, both from issuer/verifier's side or as a credential holder/prover.

Additionally, aries-vcx is built on top of smaller Rust crates which are part of this repo:

• messages - crate for building and parsing Aries messages
• diddoc - crate to work with DIDDocs

If you are mobile 📱 developer

Aries-vcx can be used to build native mobile applications. There are 2 approaches:

• deprecated: libvcx and its Java and Objective-C wrappers is complete, but deprecated
• encouraged, but in stage of POC: uniffi_aries_vcx is next generation approach to enable aries-vcx on mobile, providing Swift and Kotlin wrappers. However, this is yet in POC stage and new adopters of aries-vcx on mobile are highly encouraged to contribute to its development.

Read more about libvcx deprecation and unifii benefits here

Reach out 👋

• Ask a question on discord
• Talk to us on public community call every Thursday @ 09:00 am UTC via Zoom, see details
• See high level 2023 roadmap at ROADMAP_2023.md
• We welcome new contributors! Connect with us via the channels above and take a look at CONTRIBUTING.md

Versioning & releases

• All releases have currently major version 0
  • We bump minor version on releases containing new features, significant refactors or breaking changes.
  • We bump patch version if release only contains fixes or smaller refactoring.
• See more info on releases
• See releases page.