Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-09 03:22 UTC

bnb-chain / go-sdk

GoApache-2.0★ 202 stars⑂ 94 forkssince Oct 2018View on GitHub ↗

bnb-chain/go-sdk holds a health index of 25 out of 100, placing it in the At Risk band. It scores highest on Sustainability & Governance (67/100) and lowest on Vitality (21/100). It was last updated 925 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

At Risk

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met

Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps

Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable

Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended

Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas

At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution

Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 45 is calibrated to 42 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

bnb-chainOrganization

4,329 followers226 public repossince Dec 2018

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	github.com/bnb-chain/go-sdk	v1.3.2	-	30	1232 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

21At Risk · 21% of overall

Development activity

1Critical

Abandonment alert

Work has arrived and nobody has attended to it

no human commit in 925 daysautomated commits excludeda published fix left unappliedreleases stalledOpenSSF Scorecard reports it unmaintainedOverall rating: At Risk ceiling

Silence alone is never the finding — a small, finished library may need no commits for years. This alert requires both: no human commit for a long time, and obligations the project is visibly not discharging. Automated commits do not count as maintenance.

How abandonment is assessed

How it's scored

0/36	Push recency — last push 925 days ago
0/36	Commit cadence — 0/52 weeks with commits
0/18	Commit volume — 0 commits in the last year
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

commits_last_year	0
human_commit_share	0.96
days_since_last_push	925
active_weeks_last_year	0

Release discipline

52Moderate

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 30 releases published
0/36	Release recency — latest release 1,232 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~109.6 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	30
latest_release_tag	v1.3.2
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	1,232
mean_days_between_releases	109.6

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

56Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

62Moderate

How it's scored

37.4/60	Stars — 202 stars
16.4/25	Forks — 94 forks
8/15	Watchers — 28 watchers

Inputs used

forks	94
stars	202
watchers	28
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

50Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	—
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

67Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

32At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
9.9/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 56% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 19 contributors
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	19
top_contributor_share	0.558

Issue & PR responsiveness

93Exceptional

How it's scored

41.4/42	Issue resolution — 99% of issues closed
24.7/30	PR acceptance — 94/114 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
15/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed

Inputs used

merged_prs	94
open_issues	1
closed_issues	71
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	0.986
closed_unmerged_prs	20
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

80Excellent

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain
25/25	Owner reach — 4,329 followers of bnb-chain
25/25	Track record — 226 public repos, account ~7 yr old

Inputs used

followers	4,329
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	no
owner_login	bnb-chain
public_repos	226
account_age_days	2,835

Package maintenance

69Good

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on go
4/35	Publish recency — latest publish 1,232 days ago
20/20	Version history — 30 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/bnb-chain/go-sdk
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	1,232

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

34At Risk · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

24At Risk

How it's scored

0/24	CI workflows
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
0/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 0 out of 22 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_ci	no
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

50Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
0/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 1 topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	sdk
has_wiki	yes
homepage	—
docs_site	—
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	no

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

41Weak · 16% of overall

Security posture

40Weak

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
0/2.5	CI-Tests — 0 out of 22 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
7.5/7.5	Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
0/2.5	Contributors — project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
0/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no data
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
0/7.5	Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — no data
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — no data
0/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 37 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	12
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	6
scorecard_aggregate	4

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Pinned-Dependencies, Signed-Releases, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

44Weak

How it's scored

5.2/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 3 affected: golang.org/x/crypto 0.10.0 (critical 10.0), github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk 0.25.0 (high 7.5), github.com/gorilla/websocket 1.5.0 (moderate 6.5)
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
27.8/40	No advisories left outstanding — 2 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 1,194 days ago

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	118
affected_packages	11
assessed_packages	84
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	critical 2, high 5, moderate 2, unknown 2
direct_affected_packages	3

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 84 resolved dependencies against OSV. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

67Good · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

21At Risk

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
21.1/40	Legible commit history — 38 of 96 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.396
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

77Good

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8	Automated maintenance — 4 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — no data

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.04

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies. Remaining weights renormalized.

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/83 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	33,307
source_files_sampled	83
oversized_source_files	0

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional

How it's scored

0/40	API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20	MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40	Runnable examples — example

Inputs used

example_dirs	example
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	—
interfaces_expected_of	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

202GitHub stars

19contributors

0commits, last 12 months

925days since last push

30releases

1bus factor

1open issues

Gopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 94 ⇿

0Stars

94Forks

29Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

Major 0Minor 3Patch 23

Each point covers 6 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 4.0 / 10

4.0aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-09-09 03:22 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
n/a	Branch-Protection	internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
0	CI-Tests	0 out of 22 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
10	Code-Review	all changesets reviewed
0	Contributors	project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
n/a	Dangerous-Workflow	no workflows found
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
0	Maintained	0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
n/a	Pinned-Dependencies	no dependencies found
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
n/a	Token-Permissions	No tokens found
0	Vulnerabilities	37 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 13

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/bnb-chain/node	`v0.10.16`	go.mod
Go	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2	`v2.3.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk	`v0.25.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/cosmos/go-bip39	`v0.0.0-20180819234021-555e2067c45d`	go.mod
Go	github.com/gorilla/websocket	`v1.5.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/pkg/errors	`v0.9.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.8.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/tendermint/btcd	`v0.1.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/tendermint/go-amino	`v0.15.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/tendermint/tendermint	`v0.35.9`	go.mod
Go	github.com/zondax/ledger-cosmos-go	`v0.9.9`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.10.0`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/resty.v1	`v1.12.0`	go.mod

All dependencies 84

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 13 direct and 71 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/bnb-chain/node	`0.10.16`	direct
Go	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2	`2.3.2`	direct
Go	github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk	`0.25.0`	direct
Go	github.com/cosmos/go-bip39	`0.0.0-20180819234021-555e2067c45d`	direct
Go	github.com/gorilla/websocket	`1.5.0`	direct
Go	github.com/pkg/errors	`0.9.1`	direct
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`1.8.2`	direct
Go	github.com/tendermint/btcd	`0.1.1`	direct
Go	github.com/tendermint/go-amino	`0.15.0`	direct
Go	github.com/tendermint/tendermint	`0.35.9`	direct
Go	github.com/zondax/ledger-cosmos-go	`0.9.9`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`0.10.0`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/resty.v1	`1.12.0`	direct
Go	github.com/bartekn/go-bip39	`0.0.0-20171116152956-a05967ea095d`	indirect
Go	github.com/beorn7/perks	`1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/bgentry/speakeasy	`0.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/bnb-chain/ics23	`0.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil	`1.1.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2	`2.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/cosmos/ledger-go	`0.9.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/davecgh/go-spew	`1.1.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4	`4.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/etcd-io/bbolt	`1.3.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum	`1.11.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify	`1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-kit/kit	`0.10.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt	`0.5.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/gogo/protobuf	`1.3.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/golang/protobuf	`1.5.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/golang/snappy	`0.0.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/btree	`1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/gorilla/mux	`1.8.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru	`0.5.5-0.20210104140557-80c98217689d`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/hcl	`1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/herumi/bls-eth-go-binary	`0.0.0-20210917013441-d37c07cfda4e`	indirect
Go	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap	`1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/jcmturner/gofork	`1.7.6`	indirect
Go	github.com/jmhodges/levigo	`1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2	`2.2.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/libp2p/go-buffer-pool	`0.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/magiconair/properties	`1.8.5`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-isatty	`0.0.18`	indirect
Go	github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions	`1.0.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/minio/sha256-simd	`1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir	`1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure	`1.4.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/mohae/deepcopy	`0.0.0-20170929034955-c48cc78d4826`	indirect
Go	github.com/pelletier/go-toml	`1.9.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib	`1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`1.14.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_model	`0.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/common	`0.42.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/procfs	`0.9.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/prysmaticlabs/fastssz	`0.0.0-20220628121656-93dfe28febab`	indirect
Go	github.com/prysmaticlabs/gohashtree	`0.0.3-alpha`	indirect
Go	github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/v4	`4.0.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics	`0.0.0-20190826022208-cac0b30c2563`	indirect
Go	github.com/rs/cors	`1.7.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/sirupsen/logrus	`1.9.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/afero	`1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/cast	`1.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`1.5.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman	`1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`1.0.5`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/viper	`1.8.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/subosito/gotenv	`1.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/supranational/blst	`0.3.8-0.20220526154634-513d2456b344`	indirect
Go	github.com/syndtr/goleveldb	`1.0.1-0.20220721030215-126854af5e6d`	indirect
Go	github.com/tendermint/iavl	`0.12.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/thomaso-mirodin/intmath	`0.0.0-20160323211736-5dc6d854e46e`	indirect
Go	github.com/zondax/hid	`0.9.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/net	`0.11.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`0.9.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`0.10.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/genproto	`0.0.0-20210624195500-8bfb893ecb84`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/grpc	`1.40.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`1.30.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/ini.v1	`1.67.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/jcmturner/aescts.v1	`1.0.1`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/jcmturner/dnsutils.v1	`1.0.1`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/jcmturner/gokrb5.v7	`7.5.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/jcmturner/rpc.v1	`1.1.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v2	`2.4.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`3.0.1`	indirect

Dependency advisories 11

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 84 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 11 carry known advisories, of which 3 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
golang.org/x/crypto	`0.10.0`	direct	critical	41	`3.4.0`
google.golang.org/grpc	`1.40.0`	indirect	critical	9	`1.85.0-dev.0.20260825072537-93e31b48545e`
github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk	`0.25.0`	direct	high	20	`0.53.3`
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum	`1.11.3`	indirect	high	15	`1.17.0`
github.com/sirupsen/logrus	`1.9.0`	indirect	high	2	`1.9.3`
golang.org/x/net	`0.11.0`	indirect	high	23	`12.0.2`
google.golang.org/protobuf	`1.30.0`	indirect	high	2	`1.33.0`
github.com/gorilla/websocket	`1.5.0`	direct	moderate	2	`1.5.3`
github.com/supranational/blst	`0.3.8-0.20220526154634-513d2456b344`	indirect	moderate	2	`0.3.11`
golang.org/x/sys	`0.9.0`	indirect	unknown	1	`0.44.0`
golang.org/x/text	`0.10.0`	indirect	unknown	1	`0.39.0`

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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