5 releases (breaking)
0.6.0 | May 12, 2021 |
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0.5.0 | Apr 14, 2021 |
0.4.0 | Mar 17, 2021 |
0.3.0 | Feb 17, 2021 |
0.2.0 | Dec 21, 2020 |
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The Bitcoin Dev Kit
BDK

A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust!
Project Homepage | Documentation
About
The bdk
libraries aims to provide well engineered and reviewed components for Bitcoin based applications.
It is built upon the excellent rust-bitcoin
and rust-miniscript
crates.
⚠ The Bitcoin Dev Kit developers are in the process of releasing a
v1.0
which is a fundamental re-write of how the library works. See for some background on this project: https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/road-to-bdk-1/ (ignore the timeline 😁) For a release timeline see thebdk_core_staging
repo where a lot of the component work is being done. The plan is that everything in thebdk_core_staging
repo will be moved into thecrates
directory here.
Architecture
The project is split up into several crates in the /crates
directory:
bdk
: Contains the central high levelWallet
type that is built from the low-level mechanisms provided by the other componentschain
: Tools for storing and indexing chain datafile_store
: A (experimental) persistence backend for storing chain data in a single file.esplora
: Extends theesplora-client
crate with methods to fetch chain data from an esplora HTTP server in the form thatbdk_chain
andWallet
can consume.electrum
: Extends theelectrum-client
crate with methods to fetch chain data from an electrum server in the form thatbdk_chain
andWallet
can consume.
Fully working examples of how to use these components are in /example-crates
Dependencies
~1–1.2MB
~30K SLoC