Is this project still active/maintained?

[devlzcode]

I want to run my own bitcoin node and the features of bcoin are attractive but it doesn't seem like the project has much activity going on. My only other option is bitcoind. Whats the realistic status of this project?

[pinheadmz]

Good question. Not really. There are a few active maintainers but sadly we aren't actively improving bcoin. The most recent feature was bech32m support which is required to send BTC to the new Taproot address format. There is an old outdated pull request to add Taproot validation support to the bcoin full node but it needs a lot of revisions and review. Realistically, if you like bcoin, you should probably ALSO run Bitcoin Core, and to be totally safe, ensure that your bcoin node ONLY connects to the Bitcoin Core node you trust (bcoin --only=<ip address>)