The Bitcoin Dev Kit

BDK

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

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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 the BDK 1.0 project page.

Architecture

The project is split up into several crates in the /crates directory:

• wallet: Contains the central high level Wallet type that is built from the low-level mechanisms provided by the other components
• chain: Tools for storing and indexing chain data
• persist: Types that define data persistence of a BDK wallet
• file_store: A (experimental) persistence backend for storing chain data in a single file.
• esplora: Extends the esplora-client crate with methods to fetch chain data from an esplora HTTP server in the form that bdk_chain and Wallet can consume.
• electrum: Extends the electrum-client crate with methods to fetch chain data from an electrum server in the form that bdk_chain and Wallet can consume.

Fully working examples of how to use these components are in /example-crates:

• example_cli: Library used by the example_* crates. Provides utilities for syncing, showing the balance, generating addresses and creating transactions without using the bdk_wallet Wallet.
• example_electrum: A command line Bitcoin wallet application built on top of example_cli and the electrum crate. It shows the power of the bdk tools (chain + file_store + electrum), without depending on the main bdk_wallet library.
• example_esplora: A command line Bitcoin wallet application built on top of example_cli and the esplora crate. It shows the power of the bdk tools (chain + file_store + esplora), without depending on the main bdk_wallet library.
• example_bitcoind_rpc_polling: A command line Bitcoin wallet application built on top of example_cli and the bitcoind_rpc crate. It shows the power of the bdk tools (chain + file_store + bitcoind_rpc), without depending on the main bdk_wallet library.
• wallet_esplora_blocking: Uses the Wallet to sync and spend using the Esplora blocking interface.
• wallet_esplora_async: Uses the Wallet to sync and spend using the Esplora asynchronous interface.
• wallet_electrum: Uses the Wallet to sync and spend using Electrum.

Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)

The BDK library maintains a MSRV of 1.63.0. This includes the following crates:

• bdk_core
• bdk_chain
• bdk_bitcoind_rpc.
• bdk_esplora.
• bdk_wallet.

The MSRV of bdk_electrum is 1.75.0.

To build with the MSRV of 1.63.0 you will need to pin dependencies by running the pin-msrv.sh script.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

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