Overview

Ox (⦻) is the foundation of robust Ethereum software written in TypeScript. It is an Ethereum Standard Library that provides a set of lightweight, performant, and type-safe TypeScript modules for Ethereum.

It offers core utilities & types for primitives such as: ABIs, Addresses, Blocks, Bytes, ECDSA, Hex, JSON-RPC, RLP, Signing & Signatures, Transaction Envelopes, and more.

As an unopinionated Standard Library, it is designed to be used by higher-level consumers (such as Viem, Tevm, or their alternatives) to provide their own opinionated interfaces, and/or when reaching for low-level primitives may be needed without buying into a Client Abstraction stack (Viem, Ethers, Web3.js, etc).

Documentation

Head to the documentation to read and learn more about Ox.

Example Usage

The example below demonstrates how to construct, sign, and broadcast a transaction envelope using Ox:

import { Provider, Secp256k1, TransactionEnvelopeEip1559, Value } from 'ox'
 
// 1. Construct a transaction envelope.
const envelope = TransactionEnvelopeEip1559.from({
  chainId: 1,
  gas: 21000n,
  nonce: 0n,
  maxFeePerGas: Value.fromGwei('10'),
  maxPriorityFeePerGas: Value.fromGwei('1'),
  to: '0x70997970c51812dc3a010c7d01b50e0d17dc79c8',
  value: Value.fromEther('1'),
})
 
// 2. Get the signing payload for the envelope.
const payload = TransactionEnvelopeEip1559.getSignPayload(envelope) 
 
// 3. Sign the payload with your private key using secp256k1.
const signature = Secp256k1.sign({ payload, privateKey: '0x...' })

// 4. Serialize the envelope with the signature.
const serialized = TransactionEnvelopeEip1559.serialize(envelope, { signature })

// 5. Broadcast the envelope to the network.
const provider = Provider.from(window.ethereum)
const hash = await provider.request({
  method: 'eth_sendRawTransaction',
  params: [serialized],
})

Note

Ox's APIs are purposely stateless, unopinionated, and verbose. The example above can definitely be achieved in a few lines of code in a more concise manner, however, the goal is for higher-level abstractions (Viem, etc) built on top of Ox to handle this for you.

Community

Check out the following places for more Ox-related content:

• Follow @wevm_dev, @jxom, and @awkweb on Twitter for project updates
• Join the discussions on GitHub

Support

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