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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

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Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) is a suite of software libraries that allows you to build secure, feature-rich, and cross-platform Bitcoin wallets.

Most of the BDK projects are based on the powerful rust-bitcoin and rust-miniscript libraries.

The home page for the overarching BDK project and the BDK Foundation that supports it is bitcoindevkit.org.

Project Tiers

We provide the technical infrastructure to maintain a number of software and documentation projects across different maturity levels and support models. To help you navigate these projects, we've categorized them along two dimensions: Maturity Level (Stable or Experimental) and Support Model (Foundation or Community). See "The Book of BDK" chapter on library tiers for more details.

The lead and secondary maintainers for each project are responsible for:

  • triaging new issues and PRs
  • providing guidance to contributors
  • reviewing and merging changes based on rough consensus
  • making and publishing releases

Foundation Supported

Stable
Project Lead Maintainer Secondary Maintainer
bdk_wallet ValuedMammal oleonardolima
bdk_core evanlinjin oleonardolima
bdk_chain evanlinjin oleonardolima
bdk_esplora oleonardolima luisschwab
bdk_electrum evanlinjin oleonardolima
bdk_bitcoind_rpc evanlinjin ValuedMammal
bdk_testenv tvpeter luisschwab
esplora-client oleonardolima luisschwab
electrum-client oleonardolima luisschwab
bdk-ffi thunderbiscuit reez
bdk-jvm thunderbiscuit ItoroD
bdk-android thunderbiscuit reez
bdk-swift reez thunderbiscuit
book-of-bdk thunderbiscuit reez
Experimental
Project Lead Maintainer Secondary Maintainer
bdk_coin_select evanlinjin
bdk_file_store nymius
bdk_tx ValuedMammal aagbotemi
bdk_sp nymius
electrum_streaming_client evanlinjin oleonardolima
bdk-bitcoind-client ValuedMammal tvpeter
bdk_sqlite ValuedMammal
bdk-dart reez Johnosezele
bdk-rn thunderbiscuit reez
bdk-cli tvpeter
BDKSwiftExampleWallet reez
devkit-wallet thunderbiscuit

Community Supported

Stable
Project Lead Maintainer Secondary Maintainer
bdk_kyoto rustaceanrob
bdk-python
bdk-wasm darioAnongba
bdk-reserves ulrichard
rust-cktap notmandatory reez
awesome-bdk thunderbiscuit
Experimental
Project Lead Maintainer Secondary Maintainer
bdk_sqlx matthiasdebernardini
bitcoin-ffi
bdk-message-signer aagbotemi

😃 Join our community

Community is fundamental to building and maintaining free and open source software and documentation. Please connect with us on GitHub and the BDK discord server!

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  1. bdk bdk Public

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

    Rust 1.1k 519

  2. bdk_wallet bdk_wallet Public

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

    Rust 61 117

  3. bdk-ffi bdk-ffi Public

    Rust 127 85

  4. book-of-bdk book-of-bdk Public

    The documentation website for BDK

    Shell 42 36

  5. rust-esplora-client rust-esplora-client Public

    Asynchronous and blocking clients and types for interacting with Esplora servers over HTTP.

    Rust 57 74

  6. bdk-kyoto bdk-kyoto Public

    BDK blockchain backend using P2P light client Kyoto

    Rust 20 13

Repositories

Showing 10 of 46 repositories
  • bdk-cli Public

    A CLI wallet library and REPL tool to demo and test the BDK library

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-cli's past year of commit activity
    Rust 143 104 27 11 Updated Oct 22, 2026
  • coin-select Public

    Tool to help you select inputs for making bitcoin transactions.

    bitcoindevkit/coin-select's past year of commit activity
    Rust 18 18 12 7 Updated Oct 22, 2026
  • bdk Public

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

    bitcoindevkit/bdk's past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,077 519 62 (1 issue needs help) 36 Updated Oct 22, 2026
  • bdk-bitcoind-client Public

    Bitcoin Core RPC Client

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-bitcoind-client's past year of commit activity
    Rust 6 6 5 10 Updated Oct 22, 2026
  • rust-electrum-client Public

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

    bitcoindevkit/rust-electrum-client's past year of commit activity
    Rust 89 86 25 9 Updated Oct 22, 2026
  • bdk-sqlx Public

    BDK sqlx demo

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-sqlx's past year of commit activity
    Rust 6 MIT 11 4 0 Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • electrum_streaming_client Public

    Electrum client library that honors the Electrum API’s push-based model.

    bitcoindevkit/electrum_streaming_client's past year of commit activity
    Rust 10 MIT 8 23 10 Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • bdk-kyoto Public

    BDK blockchain backend using P2P light client Kyoto

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-kyoto's past year of commit activity
    Rust 20 13 5 3 Updated Oct 17, 2026
  • devkit-wallet Public

    The sample Android app for BDK.

    bitcoindevkit/devkit-wallet's past year of commit activity
    Kotlin 18 Apache-2.0 16 8 1 Updated Oct 17, 2026
  • rust-esplora-client Public

    Asynchronous and blocking clients and types for interacting with Esplora servers over HTTP.

    bitcoindevkit/rust-esplora-client's past year of commit activity
    Rust 57 74 26 8 Updated Oct 16, 2026

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