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Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) is a suite of software libraries that allows you to build secure, feature-rich, and cross-platform Bitcoin wallets.

Most of the BDK projects are based on the powerful rust-bitcoin and rust-miniscript libraries.

The home page for the overarching BDK project and the BDK Foundation that supports it is bitcoindevkit.org.

Project Tiers

We provide the technical infrastructure to maintain a number of software and documentation projects across different maturity levels and support models. To help you navigate these projects, we've categorized them along two dimensions: Maturity Level (Stable or Experimental) and Support Model (Foundation or Community). See "The Book of BDK" chapter on library tiers for more details.

The lead and secondary maintainers for each project are responsible for:

triaging new issues and PRs
providing guidance to contributors
reviewing and merging changes based on rough consensus
making and publishing releases

Foundation Supported

Stable

Project	Lead Maintainer	Secondary Maintainer
bdk_wallet	ValuedMammal	oleonardolima
bdk_core	evanlinjin	oleonardolima
bdk_chain	evanlinjin	oleonardolima
bdk_esplora	oleonardolima	luisschwab
bdk_electrum	evanlinjin	oleonardolima
bdk_bitcoind_rpc	evanlinjin	ValuedMammal
bdk_testenv	tvpeter	luisschwab
esplora-client	oleonardolima	luisschwab
electrum-client	oleonardolima	luisschwab
bdk-ffi	thunderbiscuit	reez
bdk-jvm	thunderbiscuit	ItoroD
bdk-android	thunderbiscuit	reez
bdk-swift	reez	thunderbiscuit
book-of-bdk	thunderbiscuit	reez

Experimental

Project	Lead Maintainer	Secondary Maintainer
bdk_coin_select	evanlinjin
bdk_file_store	nymius
bdk_tx	ValuedMammal	aagbotemi
bdk_sp	nymius
electrum_streaming_client	evanlinjin	oleonardolima
bdk-bitcoind-client	ValuedMammal	tvpeter
bdk_sqlite	ValuedMammal
bdk-dart	reez	Johnosezele
bdk-rn	thunderbiscuit	reez
bdk-cli	tvpeter
BDKSwiftExampleWallet	reez
devkit-wallet	thunderbiscuit

Community Supported

Stable

Project	Lead Maintainer	Secondary Maintainer
bdk_kyoto	rustaceanrob
bdk-python
bdk-wasm	darioAnongba
bdk-reserves	ulrichard
rust-cktap	notmandatory	reez
awesome-bdk	thunderbiscuit

Experimental

Project	Lead Maintainer	Secondary Maintainer
bdk_sqlx	matthiasdebernardini
bitcoin-ffi
bdk-message-signer	aagbotemi

😃 Join our community

Community is fundamental to building and maintaining free and open source software and documentation. Please connect with us on GitHub and the BDK discord server!

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A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust!

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A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust!

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The documentation website for BDK

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Asynchronous and blocking clients and types for interacting with Esplora servers over HTTP.

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BDK blockchain backend using P2P light client Kyoto

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rust-esplora-client Public
Asynchronous and blocking clients and types for interacting with Esplora servers over HTTP.

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bdk Public
A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust!

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bdk-rn Public
Uniffi-based React Native bindings for the Bitcoin Development Kit

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bdk-python Public
The Python language bindings for BDK.

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rust-cktap Public
Coinkite Tap Protocol implementation for use with SATSCARD™ and TAPSIGNER® products

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bdk_wallet Public
A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust!

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rust-electrum-client Public
Bitcoin Electrum client library. Supports plaintext, TLS and Onion servers.

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