The Bitcoin Dev Kit

May 25, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

A suite of libraries for building modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallets written in Rust!

MIT or Apache-2.0 Licensed CI Status Rustc Version 1.85.0+ Chat on Discord

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The bdk libraries aim to provide well engineered and reviewed components for Bitcoin wallets and other applications. They are built upon the excellent rust-bitcoin and rust-miniscript crates.

Architecture

The workspace in this repository contains several crates in the /crates directory:

Sub-DirectoryDescriptionBadges
chainTools for storing and indexing chain data.Chain Crate Info Chain API Docs
coreA collection of core structures used by the bdk_chain, bdk_wallet, and BDK's chain data source crates.Core Crate Info Core API Docs
esploraExtends the esplora-client crate with methods to fetch chain data from an esplora HTTP server in the form that bdk_chain and Wallet can consume.Esplora Crate Info Esplora API Docs
electrumExtends the electrum-client crate with methods to fetch chain data from an electrum server in the form that bdk_chain and Wallet can consume.Electrum Crate Info Electrum API Docs
bitcoind_rpcExtends bitcoincore-rpc for emitting blockchain data from the bitcoind RPC interface in the form that bdk_chain and Wallet can consume.BitcoinD RPC Crate Info BitcoinD RPC API Docs
file_storePersistence backend for storing chain data in a single file. Intended for testing and development purposes, not for production.File Store Crate Info File Store API Docs

The bdk_wallet repository and crate contains a higher level Wallet type that depends on the above lower-level mechanism crates.

Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)

The following BDK crates maintains a MSRV of 1.85.0. To build these crates with the MSRV of 1.85.0 you will need to pin dependencies by running the pin-msrv.sh script.

  • bdk_core
  • bdk_chain
  • bdk_bitcoind_rpc
  • bdk_esplora
  • bdk_file_store
  • bdk_electrum

Just

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License

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Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.