Used in agent projects
34
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in auth and security libraries
#32 of 47
by use in those projects
Downloads
10.1M
PyPI, last 7 days, ecdsa
GitHub stars
974
last push Jun 8, 2026
How ecdsa is used
ecdsa is a dependency in 34 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #32 of 47 in auth and security libraries. The most used alternative there is NextAuth.js. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (88.2%), solders (82.4%), CFFI (70.6%).
Often used with ecdsa
| Requests | 88.2% of ecdsa projects · 16.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| solders | 82.4% of ecdsa projects · 24.7× more than average |
| CFFI | 70.6% of ecdsa projects · 106.7× more than average |
| pycparser | 70.6% of ecdsa projects · 108.0× more than average |
| base58 | 67.6% of ecdsa projects · 35.5× more than average |
| websockets | 67.6% of ecdsa projects · 30.0× more than average |
Install
| Package | pip install ecdsa |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (33), Other (1) |
| Example projects | solana-developers/solana-cookbook, fireblocks/fireblocks-key-recovery-tool, neonevm/proxy-model.py, NA-DEGEN-GIRL/multi-perp-dex, glazybyte/Crypto-Escrow-Telegram-Bot |
Alternatives to ecdsa
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NextAuth.js npm Complete open-source authentication solution designed for Next.js applications. |
266 (2.1%) | 6.7M | 28.4K | ISC |
| bcryptjs npm Pure JavaScript bcrypt implementation for secure password hashing without dependencies. |
256 (2.0%) | 14.7M | 3,797 | BSD-3-Clause |
| jsonwebtoken npm Create, verify and decode JSON Web Tokens for authentication and secure data transmission. |
241 (1.9%) | 59.3M | 18.2K | MIT |
| cryptography pypi Python library providing cryptographic recipes and primitives for secure applications. |
213 (1.7%) | 281M | 7,803 | — |
| jose npm Comprehensive JWT and JWK handling for Node.js and web runtimes. |
141 (1.1%) | 151M | 7,824 | MIT |
| PyJWT pypi Python library for encoding and decoding JSON Web Tokens. |
128 (1.0%) | 154M | 5,714 | — |
| Better Auth npm Comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript with multiple strategies. |
126 (1.0%) | 11.4M | 30.2K | MIT |
| Helmet npm Express middleware that sets HTTP security headers to prevent vulnerabilities. |
125 (1.0%) | 16.2M | 10.7K | MIT |