Is ethers safe to use?

ethers has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (6.16.0). DepScope rates its health at 57/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of ethers?

The latest version of ethers is 6.16.0, released 2025-12-03.

Does ethers have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of ethers.

Is ethers deprecated?

No, ethers is actively maintained. Latest release: 6.16.0 (2025-12-03).

What are alternatives to ethers?

Popular alternatives to ethers in npm include: semver, minimatch, ansi-styles, brace-expansion, strip-ansi.

ethers

npmv6.16.0

A complete and compact Ethereum library, for dapps, wallets and any other tools.

License MITpermissive333 versions1 maintainers7 deps

git://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 57/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

📦

Bundle Size

367.9 KBminified

133.1 KB gzipped

7 direct dependencies

ESM

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.68high

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (7)

ws tslib aes-js @types/node @noble/curves @noble/hashes @adraffy/ens-normalize

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