PyRank
ethereum

py-ecc

Python implementation of ECC pairing and bn_128 and bls12_381 curve operations
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

py-ecc has 1.2M monthly downloads and 229 GitHub stars. Version 8.0.0 supports Python <4,>=3.8, first published in 2017.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2025.

It is built on top of eth-typing and eth-utils. It is used by 47 tracked packages, including py-evm, eth-keyfile and open-autonomy.

GitHub topics include ethereum, ecc and secpk256k1.

Downloads
Day
39.6K
Week
263.6K
Month
1.2M
Stars
229
Forks
88
Issues
33
Version
8.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
52
Adoption
70
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
202 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,225,921
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
• Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,225,921
Stars
229
Stars per 1k downloads
0.19
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
37,653
Month daily avg
40,864
Momentum
-7.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
449 days ago
Total releases
32
Releases/year
3.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
• Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
27
Monthly downloads
1,225,921
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
67
 
Issue Burden
144.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
247d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 23.2K
Windows 388
macOS 382

Python Versions

3.11
42.5% 9.4K
3.12
20.6% 4.5K
3.10
20.5% 4.5K
3.13
8.7% 1.9K
3.14
7.7% 1.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
17.9K
2. KR KR
1.2K
3. BE BE
1.0K
4. SG SG
897
5. IE IE
672
6. DE DE
568
7. HK HK
249
8. IN IN
205
9. CN CN
183
10. CH CH
175
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 7, 2017
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
8.0.0
Total Releases
32
Contributors
27
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
The Ethereum Foundation
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
ethereum
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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