Rust Canister Development Kit

Rust CDK provides tools for building Canisters on Internet Computer (IC).

You may be looking for:

• Documentation Site of the Internet Computer
• Tutorials of Rust CDK
• dfx for managing IC projects

If you are looking for a crate to communicate with existing canisters on IC, you may want to check agent-rs.

Introduction

A canister is a WebAssembly (wasm) module that can run on the Internet Computer.

To be a canister, a wasm module should communicate with the execution environment using Canister interfaces (System API).

This repo provides libraries and tools to facilitate developing canisters in Rust.

• ic0: Internet Computer System API binding.
• ic-cdk: Internet Computer Canister Development Kit.
• ic-cdk-bindgen: Generate Rust bindings from Candid to make inter-canister calls.
• ic-cdk-macros: Annotate functions with attribute macros to make them exposed public interfaces.
• ic-cdk-timers: The library implements multiple and periodic timers.
• ic-management-canister-types: Types for calling the IC management canister.
• ic-certified-map: An implementation of map which support certified queries.
• ic-ledger-types: Type definitions to communicate with the ICP ledger canister.

Rust CDK in Action

In Cargo.toml:

[lib]
crate-type = ["cdylib"]

[dependencies]
ic-cdk = "0.18"
candid = "0.10" # required if you want to define Candid data types

Then in Rust source code:

#[ic_cdk::query]
fn hello() -> String{
    "world".to_string()
}

Check Rust quickstart for a detailed guidance.