Rust-BCH

A library to build Bitcoin Cash (BCH) applications in Rust.

Documentation

This library was originally developed by Brenton Gunning, who discontinued it in favor of rust-sv. This is a fork to resume active development.

Features:

• P2P protocol messages (construction and serialization)
• Address generation (cashaddr and legacy)
• Transaction signing
• Script evaluation
• Node connections and basic message handling
• Wallet key derivation and mnemonic parsing
• Mainnet and testnet support
• Various Bitcoin primitives

Missing features:

• OP_CHECKDATASIG
• Canonical Transaction Ordering (CTOR)
• Schnorr signatures
• OP_REVERSEBYTES
• SLP tokens

Patches welcome!

Installation

Add bch = "0.2.0" to Cargo.toml in your project.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.

Known limitations

This library should not be used for consensus code because its validation checks are incomplete.

Comparison with other Rust libraries

rust-sv - started as a fork of rust-bch, in active development. rust-bch will pull code from it as long as both libraries remain compatible.

rust-bitcoin - rust-bch has no ties to rust-bitcoin. This library can do everything rust-bitcoin can do and more for Bitcoin Cash.

parity-bitcoin - The parity Bitcoin client is a full node in Rust. Its code is more full-featured and also more complex.

bitcrust - The bitcrust project is strong in some areas and lacking in others. The two projects could be used together.

License

rust-bch is licensed under the MIT license.