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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
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 455

  2. bdk_wallet bdk_wallet Public

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

    Rust 50 88

  3. bdk-ffi bdk-ffi Public

    Rust 124 74

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

    The documentation website for BDK

    Shell 40 32

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

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

    Rust 51 71

  6. bdk-kyoto bdk-kyoto Public

    BDK blockchain backend using P2P light client Kyoto

    Rust 19 11

Repositories

Showing 10 of 46 repositories
  • bdk_wallet Public

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

    bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 50 88 161 (6 issues need help) 42 Updated Jun 4, 2026
  • bitcoindevkit.org Public

    BDK project home page (originally magicalbitcoin.org 🧙)

    bitcoindevkit/bitcoindevkit.org’s past year of commit activity
    Just 52 73 7 0 Updated Jun 4, 2026
  • bdk-ffi Public
    bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 124 74 33 (2 issues need help) 10 Updated Jun 3, 2026
  • bdk-dart Public
    bitcoindevkit/bdk-dart’s past year of commit activity
    Dart 10 12 7 4 Updated Jun 3, 2026
  • bdk-jvm Public

    The JVM language bindings for the Bitcoin Development Kit. See our API docs at the URL below:

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-jvm’s past year of commit activity
    Kotlin 7 3 3 1 Updated Jun 3, 2026
  • bdk-tx Public

    Miniscript based transaction builder used to create and update PSBTs

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-tx’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 13 MIT 17 15 6 Updated Jun 2, 2026
  • book-of-bdk Public

    The documentation website for BDK

    bitcoindevkit/book-of-bdk’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 40 32 24 5 Updated Jun 2, 2026
  • bdk-python Public

    The Python language bindings for BDK.

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-python’s past year of commit activity
    Python 11 9 5 0 Updated Jun 1, 2026
  • 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 51 71 11 3 Updated Jun 1, 2026
  • bdk-rn Public

    Uniffi-based React Native bindings for the Bitcoin Development Kit

    bitcoindevkit/bdk-rn’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 7 4 9 0 Updated May 29, 2026