ethereum/go-ethereum
Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
51.4k stars · 22.2k forks · Go
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 55 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 88
- Human commits, 90 days
- 226
- Human commits, 365 days
- 972
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 55
- Last release
- Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 43 hours
Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 52% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 days.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 500 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 4
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 16
- Contributors
- 444
Top committers
- cuiweixie: 20% of commits
- rjl493456442: 19% of commits
- jrhea: 7% of commits
- MariusVanDerWijden: 6% of commits
- healthykim: 4% of commits
The top committer changed during this period.
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Dec 5, 2017 to Dec 8, 2017: about 206 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 27, 2019 to Oct 31, 2019: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 14, 2022 to Apr 14, 2022: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 16, 2022 to Sep 17, 2022: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 10, 2024 to Apr 11, 2024: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- GPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- GPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum (GO): latest v1.17.8, published Oct 8, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: ethereum/go-ethereum, deps.dev: Go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy