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Bitcoin Dev Kit

The Bitcoin Dev Kit project (formerly Magical Bitcoin 🧙) is building tools and libraries designed to be a solid foundation for descriptor based Bitcoin wallets

Hey there 👋

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Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) is a library that allows you to seamlessly build cross-platform Bitcoin wallets without worrying about bitcoin internals.

BDK is based on the powerful rust-bitcoin and rust-miniscript libraries.

Learn the simplest way to integrate Bitcoin wallet features into any application at bitcoindevkit.org.

Our core libraries

The core libraries are developed and maintained collectively by the Bitcoin Dev Kit devs. The following table outlines those libraries as well as a lead maintainer for each of them.

Library Repository Lead Maintainer
bdk_wallet bdk ValuedMammal
bdk_chain bdk LagginTimes
bdk_core bdk
bdk_esplora bdk
bdk_electrum bdk
bdk_bitcoind_rpc bdk
bdk_file_store bdk
electrum-client rust-electrum-client
esplora-client rust-esplora-client
bdk-kyoto bdk-kyoto rustaceanrob
BitcoinDevkit (Swift) bdk-ffi reez
bdk-android (Kotlin) bdk-ffi thunderbiscuit
bdk-jvm (Kotlin) bdk-ffi thunderbiscuit
bdkpython (Python) bdk-ffi thunderbiscuit

Our documentation

We maintain multiple documentation and documentation-related codebases. The following table outlines them and their official maintainer.

Project Repository Lead Maintainer
https://bitcoindevkit.org bitcoindevkit.org
BdkSwiftExampleWallet BDKSwiftExampleWallet reez
Devkit Wallet devkit-wallet thunderbiscuit
Book of BDK book-of-bdk thunderbiscuit

😃 Join our community

Open source is fundamental to this project and we would love to connect with you.

Most of our communication happens on the BDK discord server, come say hi!

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  1. bdk Public

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

    Rust 941 381

  2. bitcoindevkit.org Public

    BDK project home page (originally magicalbitcoin.org 🧙)

    JavaScript 51 69

  3. bdk-ffi Public

    Rust 102 51

  4. rust-esplora-client Public

    Bitcoin Esplora API client library. Supports plaintext, TLS and Onion servers. Blocking or async.

    Rust 35 56

  5. book-of-bdk Public

    The documentation website for BDK

    Just 28 20

  6. bdk-kyoto Public

    BDK blockchain backend using P2P light client Kyoto

    Rust 10 9

Repositories

Showing 10 of 35 repositories
  • bdk-ffi Public
    Rust 102 51 30 4 Updated Mar 31, 2025
  • devkit-wallet Public

    The sample Android app for BDK.

    Kotlin 11 Apache-2.0 4 3 0 Updated Mar 29, 2025
  • rust-electrum-client Public

    Bitcoin Electrum client library. Supports plaintext, TLS and Onion servers.

    Rust 83 MIT 65 27 (1 issue needs help) 7 Updated Mar 28, 2025
  • bitcoindevkit.org Public

    BDK project home page (originally magicalbitcoin.org 🧙)

    JavaScript 51 69 1 0 Updated Mar 27, 2025
  • book-of-bdk Public

    The documentation website for BDK

    Just 28 20 18 2 Updated Mar 26, 2025
  • bdk-tx Public

    Miniscript based transaction builder used to create and update PSBTs

    Rust 2 MIT 2 0 0 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • bitcoin-ffi Public
    Rust 13 9 7 3 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • bdk Public

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

    Rust 941 381 204 (13 issues need help) 50 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • rust-esplora-client Public

    Bitcoin Esplora API client library. Supports plaintext, TLS and Onion servers. Blocking or async.

    Rust 35 MIT 56 11 (2 issues need help) 8 Updated Mar 17, 2025
  • bdk-swift Public

    Swift package for bdk-ffi

    Swift 33 15 0 0 Updated Mar 13, 2025