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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_wallet ValuedMammal
bdk_chain bdk evanlinjin
bdk_core bdk
bdk_tx bdk-tx
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 bdk Public

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

    Rust 974 397

  2. bdk_wallet bdk_wallet Public

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

    Rust 20 31

  3. bdk-ffi bdk-ffi Public

    Rust 112 56

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

    The documentation website for BDK

    Just 30 21

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

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

    Rust 38 61

  6. bdk-kyoto bdk-kyoto Public

    BDK blockchain backend using P2P light client Kyoto

    Rust 16 11

Repositories

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  • bdk Public

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

    bitcoindevkit/bdk’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 974 397 32 (4 issues need help) 28 Updated Jul 20, 2025
  • bdk_wallet Public

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

    bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 20 31 180 (9 issues need help) 25 Updated Jul 19, 2025
  • BDKSwiftExampleWallet Public

    A native iOS app example using BDK

    bitcoindevkit/BDKSwiftExampleWallet’s past year of commit activity
    Swift 30 12 6 2 Updated Jul 19, 2025
  • bitcoindevkit.org Public

    BDK project home page (originally magicalbitcoin.org 🧙)

    bitcoindevkit/bitcoindevkit.org’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 52 70 1 0 Updated Jul 18, 2025
  • bdk-swift Public

    Swift package for bdk-ffi

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-swift’s past year of commit activity
    Swift 37 15 0 0 Updated Jul 17, 2025
  • bdk-ffi Public
    bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 112 56 33 6 Updated Jul 17, 2025
  • bdk-sp Public

    Experimental project to integrate silent payments in BDK

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-sp’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 11 MIT 1 8 3 Updated Jul 16, 2025
  • rust-esplora-client Public

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

    bitcoindevkit/rust-esplora-client’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 38 MIT 61 9 (2 issues need help) 8 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • bdkpython Public
    bitcoindevkit/bdkpython’s past year of commit activity
    Python 1 0 1 0 Updated Jul 10, 2025
  • bdk-tx Public

    Miniscript based transaction builder used to create and update PSBTs

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-tx’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 9 MIT 8 6 4 Updated Jul 10, 2025