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Noir is a domain specific language for zero knowledge proofs

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The Noir Programming Language

Non-deterministic fuzz tests

Noir is a Domain Specific Language for SNARK proving systems. It has been designed to use any ACIR compatible proving system.

This implementation is in early development. It has not been reviewed or audited. It is not suitable to be used in production. Expect bugs!

Quick Start

Read the installation section from the Noir docs.

Once you have read through the documentation, you can visit Awesome Noir to run some of the examples that others have created.

Getting Help

Join the Noir forum or Discord

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Future Work

The current focus is to gather as much feedback as possible while in the alpha phase. The main focuses of Noir are safety and developer experience. If you find a feature that does not seem to be in line with these goals, please open an issue!

Minimum Rust version

This workspace's minimum supported rustc version is 1.89.0.

License

Noir is free and open source. It is distributed under a dual license. (MIT/APACHE)

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this repository by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

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cryptography
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noir-lang/noir

Noir is a domain specific language for zero knowledge proofs

Rust

1,410

7,941 commits

updated Oct 12, 2026

See the code

README

The Noir Programming Language

Non-deterministic fuzz tests

Noir is a Domain Specific Language for SNARK proving systems. It has been designed to use any ACIR compatible proving system.

This implementation is in early development. It has not been reviewed or audited. It is not suitable to be used in production. Expect bugs!

Quick Start

Read the installation section from the Noir docs.

Once you have read through the documentation, you can visit Awesome Noir to run some of the examples that others have created.

Getting Help

Join the Noir forum or Discord

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Future Work

The current focus is to gather as much feedback as possible while in the alpha phase. The main focuses of Noir are safety and developer experience. If you find a feature that does not seem to be in line with these goals, please open an issue!

Minimum Rust version

This workspace's minimum supported rustc version is 1.89.0.

License

Noir is free and open source. It is distributed under a dual license. (MIT/APACHE)

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this repository by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

compiler
cryptography
noir-lang
programming-language
zero-knowledge

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