bitcoindevkit
Bitcoin Dev Kit

The Bitcoin Dev Kit project is building open source tools and libraries designed to be a solid foundation for cross-platform, descriptor based #bitcoin wallets.

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2026-01-22 14:58:27 UTC

2025 Q4 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
bdk_wallet 2.3.0 and more!
https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2025-q4-update/

2026-01-08 18:38:16 UTC

BDK just crossed ⭐️ 1k stars on GitHub
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk
Grateful to the contributors, users, and supporters who’ve shaped Bitcoin Dev Kit… excited for what’s next in 2026!

2025-12-27 17:20:44 UTC

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Thank you @nprofile…5h0z ! Your long term financial support helps BDK provide the long term software support to the downstream projects using our libraries to build awesome #bitcoin apps and services. 🤝 🧡
#nevent1q…clxu

2025-12-17 17:30:05 UTC

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nice! please post a comment with your details on the below thread so we can add you to our adoption page:
https://github.com/orgs/bitcoindevkit/discussions/64

2025-12-17 16:58:49 UTC

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Checkout this interview for a great introduction to the past, present and future of BDK!
Companies and individuals who want to support our mission please consider joining us as a BDK Foundation member.
https://bitcoindevkit.org/foundation/about/
#nevent1q…dfnu

2025-12-16 00:19:34 UTC

Welcome 🦊 MetaMask users to self custodial #bitcoin! For all you devs checkout bdk-wasm (kudos to @nprofile…a7ek ) to see how it's done.
https://nitter.net/metamask/status/2000614577575428200
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-wasm

2025-12-04 18:56:15 UTC

📣 BDK Wallet v2.3.0 is out now! it includes a new feature for returning events upon applying block to the Wallet. It also fixes a TxBuilder::build_fee_bump error when a parent of the transaction being fee-bumped isn't found in the wallet.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet/releases/tag/wallet-2.3.0

2025-11-24 14:50:14 UTC

Did You Know: BDK supports Compact Block Filters via Kyoto
https://bookofbdk.com/cookbook/syncing/kyoto/
Check it out, to use in your app, or try it out on desktop & mobile 👇
Bitcoin Safe - 💻desktop mainnet:
https://bitcoin-safe.org/download
BDK Example iPhone - 📱mobile signet:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/A3nAuYvZ

2025-09-10 19:09:27 UTC

📢 `bdk-cli` 2.0 release is out ! Highlights: update `bdk_wallet` to 2.1.0, Taproot descriptor and redb support, improved `bdk_kyoto` tx handling. 🙏 to @nprofile…esjd for his tireless work as a maintainer and our two new contributors 110CodingP and va-an!
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-cli/releases/tag/v2.0.0

2025-08-20 17:44:43 UTC

Big news from project grantee Nymius (https://bitcoindevkit.org/foundation/grantees/#nymius) 🙌
"First BDK silent payment wallet roundtrip on signet 🚀 :
* Funding tx (https://mempool.space/signet/tx/6a92dc86af56439661f046a25a00d7af30e8bd3bafa7630dda6740df4e2a0124) , using bdk-cli and bdk_sp::send::psbt::derive_sp
* 'Cashback' tx (https://mempool.space/signet/tx/7b725847d4fdd95cf0cc4ccc8999856cefa50d774dc6d913769df039c7a1f895) using bdk-sp cli tools. Using kyoto-cbf to request compact block filters and blindbit to request tweaks.
Find the code here:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-sp/compare/master...nymius:bdk-sp:refactor/indexer"

2025-08-14 17:38:19 UTC

We're excited to award @nprofile…sez6 a year long project grant for his work on integrating Floresta, a Utreexo-powered node implementation, with BDK, through the bdk-floresta crate.
A huge thanks to @nprofile…pp2c or their early support for Luis and his work through their Vinteum Fellowship program.

2025-08-07 19:12:29 UTC

📣 bdk_wallet v2.1.0 is out now!
This release introduces two significant features: comprehensive support for BIP-389 two-path multipath descriptors and enhanced transaction building capabilities. It also includes other features and fixes.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet/releases/tag/wallet-2.1.0

2025-07-31 19:11:19 UTC

📢 Version 2.0.0 of our language bindings libraries (bdk-ffi) have all been released (iOS, Android, Kotlin/JVM, and Python)!
Better clients, arbitrary persistence, new PSBT methods, display implementations, and much more!
- https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-swift
- https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.bitcoindevkit/bdk-android
- https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.bitcoindevkit/bdk-jvm
- https://pypi.org/project/bdkpython/

2025-07-10 18:55:56 UTC

2025 Q2 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
bdk_wallet 2.0, BDK YouTube, and more!
https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2025-q2-update/

2025-07-02 20:18:30 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/@bitcoindevkit
YouTube.com/@bitcoindevkit

2025-07-02 14:51:02 UTC

BDK YouTube just posted its most recent video for "Tech Talks", check all of them out from Q2:
https://www.youtube.com/@bitcoindevkit
1 - Language Bindings
2 - Silent Payments
3 - Transactions
4 - CLI
5 - Compact Block Filters
6 - Mobile

2025-06-11 18:19:44 UTC

📢 bdk_wallet v2.0.0 is out now! This is the final 2.0, even though the major version went up most users will see no API breaking changes, and check the release notes for compatible chain client crates.
See: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet/releases/tag/wallet-2.0.0

2025-05-29 22:50:44 UTC

📣 bdk_wallet v2.0.0-beta.0 is out now! Note this is a beta release in preparation for a final 2.0 while we continue to gather feedback from users. Even though the major version went up most users will see no API breaking changes. See: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet/releases/tag/wallet-2.0.0-beta.0

2025-05-19 17:42:11 UTC

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Release notes here:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.0

2025-05-19 17:41:04 UTC

A big thanks to @nprofile…esjd for getting the bdk-cli 1.0.0 release done! and rustaceanrob for adding the cool new kyoto based compact block filter client to it! See release notes for all the details.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.

2025-04-28 21:20:42 UTC

2025 Q1 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
bdk_wallet 1.1, Book of BDK, Kyoto, and more!
https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2025-q1-update/

2025-04-21 14:51:12 UTC

BDK YouTube is alive! New recent content  
- Tech Talk: Language Bindings
  - Tutorial: Build a bitcoin wallet in ~11 mins 
And more coming this year…
https://www.youtube.com/@bitcoindevkit  
https://m.primal.net/QYRB.gif

2025-04-09 22:06:23 UTC

Happy to announce our first new BDK Foundation corporate members for 2025 @AnchorWatch, @CleanSpark_Inc, and @nprofile…talj foundation! Thank you for supporting our mission to build awesome FOSS tools for #bitcoin software devs everywhere.
https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2025q1-new-foundation-members/

2025-04-08 17:25:28 UTC

We're excited to have @nprofile…g7l0 on the team as a project maintainer. He will be a huge help supporting and improving the growing collection of libs and tools that make up BDK!
A huge thanks to @nprofile…pp2c for supporting Leo and other Brazilian BDK & Bitcoin contributors.
https://medium.com/vinteum-org/leonardo-lima-named-bdk-maintainer-and-renews-his-vinteum-grant-65df014e9292

2025-04-03 14:59:59 UTC

Release bdk_wallet 1.2.0 is out! TxBuilder::add_recipient function now accepts impls of Into<ScriptBuf>, coinbase outputs are eligible for selection if maturing in next block, and Wallets persisted with a rusqlite are thread-safe. For all the details see:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/wallet-1.2.0

2025-03-13 15:18:32 UTC

`bdk-ffi` version 1.1.0 is released along with its native language bindings:
* 🤖 Android
* ☕️ Java
* 🐍 Python
* 📱 Swift
Congrats to all our contributors, this is our first bindings release for the 1.0 version of bdk, packed with new features and capabilities 🚀
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi
`bdk-ffi` exposes Bitcoin Dev Kit (🦀 Rust) to more languages that you love, each of the native language bindings can be found below ⬇️
`bdk-android`: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.bitcoindevkit/bdk-android
`bdk-jvm`: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.bitcoindevkit/bdk-jvm
`bdk-python`: https://pypi.org/project/bdkpython/
`bdk-swift`: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-swift/

2025-02-10 17:53:16 UTC

Congratulations to @nprofile…talj !
We love seeing you give your 100M users this great privacy-focused easy-to-use #Bitcoin wallet built on FOSS software.
https://proton.me/blog/wallet-launch

2025-02-05 18:13:30 UTC

The bdk_wallet v1.1.0 release is out! tx builder now defaults to version 2 transactions and we added support for testnet4. This is the first in our planned series of 1.x bi-monthly features releases. All the details here:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/wallet-1.1.0

2025-01-14 16:40:38 UTC

This year the BDK Foundation is focusing on growing our membership base.
We're happy to welcome our new grantee, the pseudonymous John Galt!
John will be working on developing our membership program, partnerships & onboarding new members. Reach out at hello@bitcoindevkit.org.
The BDK Foundation is overseen by a volunteer board of directors, and run by a small operations team, who do the day to day work of paying developer grants, maintaining the web site, and recruiting new contributors and grantees.
https://bitcoindevkit.org/foundation/about/
The BDK Foundation is a non-profit, membership based organization.
Think of it as a trade associate for projects building on BDK with the mission to support the developers maintaining the open source software and project infrastructure.
Join us: https://bitcoindevkit.org/foundation/become-a-member/

2025-01-08 23:00:27 UTC

🚨 the legacy `bdk` crate release 0.30.1 is out! This is a patch release that fixes a regression in electrum syncing introduced in 0.30.0. Check it out:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v0.30.1
This release also officially deprecates the `bdk` crate, please migrate to the new `bdk_wallet` 1.0.0.

2024-12-19 20:28:04 UTC

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This is a good time to look back at what it took to get here.
The "Initial commit" on github was made on Jan 22, 2020.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/commit/96c87ea5ed6e0b772e86f624645ad26664ed1233
Since then:
79 individual contributors
2264 git commits
14289 lines of code with 83.9 % test coverage
On GitHub:
984 close PRs, https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
497 closed issues, https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed
602 dependent repos, https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/network/dependents
On crates.io, all-time downloads:
Original bdk, 530884
https://crates.io/crates/bdk
New bdk_wallet, 49205
https://crates.io/crates/bdk_wallet

2024-12-19 20:27:39 UTC

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Please thank everyone who has contributed to this project:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/graphs/contributors
And supporters present and past: @npub1spr…8s72, @npub10pe…n34f, @npub13s0…5g70, Brink, Bitfinex/Tether, ₿trust

2024-12-19 20:14:51 UTC

👏 Congrats to all our contributors on finishing the final `bdk_wallet` 1.0.0 release! This tag also contains small improvements to the wallet `transactions` function and `next_unused_address` API docs. https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/wallet-1.0.0

2024-12-12 02:49:14 UTC

BDK 1.0.0-beta.6 is out! This is the final "beta" test release before a final bdk_wallet 1.0.0 version. Changes include small bug fixes and API improvements plus an improved algorithm for determining which transactions are in the current best "canonical" block chain. The new canonicalization algorithm processes the transaction graph in linear time versus the prior quadratic time algorithm.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.6

2024-12-03 17:27:25 UTC

✨ New BDK blog post
🔎 “2024 Q4 Code Audit”
https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2024-q4-code-audit/
Check out the results of a code audit we had on BDK 1.0!

2024-11-22 16:14:49 UTC

📣 Bitcoin Dev Kit Foundation Q4 Grantee updates
1) LagginTimes: New Full-Time Rust maintainer!
🔗 https://github.com/LagginTimes
2) @npub1kys…de60: Continuing with BDK as Part-Time Rust Maintainer (and joining Frostsnap)!
🔗 https://github.com/evanlinjin
3) Nymius: New Project Grantee (working on Silent Payments and more)!
🔗 https://github.com/nymius
Check out our grantees https://bitcoindevkit.org/foundation/grantees/ and apply for 2025!
✉️ grants@bitcoindevkit.org

2024-11-11 18:10:50 UTC

📝 New BDK Blog Post … What we were up to in Q3
https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2024-q3-update/
🚀 1.0 betas! New grant projects! Rust Summit! Proton Wallet!

2024-10-02 20:59:32 UTC

BDK 1.0.0-beta.5 is out!
This release changes bdk_wallet transaction creation to enable RBF by default, updates the bdk_esplora client to retry server requests that fail due to rate limiting, the bdk_electrum crate now also offers a use-openssl feature, and more ➡️ https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.5

2024-09-13 16:27:23 UTC

BDK Wallet 1.0.0-beta.3 is out! 🚀 Fixed transaction creation to not skip unused addresses, added function for sorting wallet transactions and option to change default BNB fallback back coin selection. We moved the bdk_hwi crate functionality to the rust-hwi repo. For all the details see:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.3
NOTE: The bdk_wallet BETA releases are meant for early user testing to find bugs, get feedback on APIs and identify any missing functionality. A final bdk_wallet 1.0.0 release will be available once known bugs are fixed, and tutorial docs and language bindings projects are updated.

2024-08-26 16:23:07 UTC

Apply for a Full-Time Open Source Rust Maintainer Grant 🦀
The Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) Foundation is seeking proposals for a full-time Rust maintainer to support the ongoing development and maintenance of the BDK suite of open source software.
(Details in new blog post ⬇️)
https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2024-q3-rfp-rust-maintainer/

2024-08-25 18:29:17 UTC

📢 BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 it out! The primary user facing changes are re-enabling single descriptor wallets and renaming LoadParams methods to be more explict. Wallet persistence was also simplified and blockchain clients no longer depend on bdk_chain. For all the details: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.2

2024-08-19 15:10:22 UTC

📣 Bitcoin Dev Kit Foundation is excited to announce its full-time grantees!
- @npub1kys…de60 is a Rust/Golang developer who has been contributing to BDK since 2022, and is one of the architects of BDK 1.0
- @npub1thu…a79l is an Android engineer who has been working on the project for over 3 years, leading the work on the language bindings and Kotlin Example Wallet
- @npub1ree…9ty4 is an iOS engineer with a focus on the language bindings and Swift Example Wallet
- valuedmammal is a Rust developer and node operator who is the newest full-time contributor on BDK
Check out more about the BDKF grantees ➡️ https://bitcoindevkit.org/foundation/grantees/

2024-08-12 16:01:33 UTC

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Formatting running wild, thank you 😅

2024-08-12 16:00:49 UTC

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https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2024-q2-update/

2024-08-12 15:54:28 UTC

📝 New BDK Blog Post … What we were up to in Q2   https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2024-q2-update/%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8%F0%9F%9A%80 1.0 alphas! New grant projects! btc++! Bitkey!

2024-07-22 15:37:46 UTC

📢 BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 has landed 🚀. This release includes the first beta version of bdk_wallet with a stable 1.0.0 API. The changes in this version include reworked wallet persistence, changeset, and construction, optional user provided RNG, custom tx sorting, and use of merkle proofs in bdk_electrum. See the release notes for all the details.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.1

2024-06-15 03:17:16 UTC

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.13 is done! This release includes major changes required to finalize the bdk_wallet 1.0.0 APIs, including: upgrading to rust-bitcoin 0.32 and rust-miniscript 0.12.0, constructing a Wallet now requires two descriptors (external and internal), the db field was removed from Wallet, staged changes can be persisted via a blocking or async data store. See the release notes for all the details.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.13

2024-05-23 23:33:31 UTC

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Release notes:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.12

2024-05-23 23:30:10 UTC

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.12 is ready to go. This bi-weekly release fixes an electrum syncing bug when calculating fees and adds the bdk_sqlite crate for storing wallet data in SQLite tables. The Wallet::allow_shrinking function was also remove because it was too easy to misuse. See the release notes for all the details.

2024-05-10 22:46:13 UTC

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.11 is out! This incremental bi-weekly release includes three big improvements. New electrum full_scan and sync APIs were added for more efficiently querying blockchain data. And the keychain::Changeset now includes public key descriptors and keychain::Balance uses bitcoin::Amount instead of u32 sats amounts. See the changelog for all the details.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.11

2024-05-02 19:31:18 UTC

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.10 is done. This release improves the address API, simplifies the Esplora API, and adds easier spk-based scanning and syncing with electrum/esplora. It also removes the generic T from the Wallet. https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.10

2024-04-15 21:48:20 UTC

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.9 is published! This regular bi-weekly alpha release updates dependencies rust-bitcoin to v0.31.0 and rust-miniscript to v11.0.0 plus replaces the deprecated rust-miniscript function max_satisfaction_weight with max_weight_to_satisfy. It also adds chain module improvements needed to simplify syncing with electrum and esplora blockchain clients.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.9

2024-03-27 20:28:41 UTC

📢 It's that time again! BDK 1.0.0-alpha.8 updates APIs to use the rust-bitcoin FeeRate type, fixes PSBT finalization to remove extra taproot fields, and fixes blockchain scanning stop_gap definition. We recommend all alpha users upgrade to this release. https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/issues/1388

2024-03-27 20:28:18 UTC

2024-03-14 00:23:27 UTC

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2024-03-06 01:00:21 UTC

hello world! we are now live on #nostr.