2025 Q4 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
bdk_wallet 2.3.0 and more!
Bitcoin Dev Kit Documentation
2025 Q4 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
2025 Q4 Update on the Bitcoin Dev Kit Project
Bitcoin Dev Kit
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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.
BDK just crossed ⭐️ 1k stars on GitHub
Grateful to the contributors, users, and supporters who’ve shaped Bitcoin Dev Kit… excited for what’s next in 2026!
GitHub
GitHub - bitcoindevkit/bdk: A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust!
A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust! - bitcoindevkit/bdk
Welcome 🦊 MetaMask users to self custodial #bitcoin! For all you devs checkout bdk-wasm (kudos to @Dario Nakamoto ) to see how it's done.
https://nitter.net/metamask/status/2000614577575428200
GitHub
GitHub - bitcoindevkit/bdk-wasm: The Bitcoin Dev Kit for Browsers and Node
The Bitcoin Dev Kit for Browsers and Node. Contribute to bitcoindevkit/bdk-wasm development by creating an account on GitHub.
📣 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.
GitHub
Release Release wallet-2.3.0 · bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet
Summary
This minor release of BDK Wallet v2.3.0 includes a new feature for returning events upon applying blocks to the Wallet. It also fixes a TxB...
Did You Know: BDK supports Compact Block Filters via Kyoto
Check it out, to use in your app, or try it out on desktop & mobile 👇
Bitcoin Safe - 💻desktop mainnet:
BDK Example iPhone - 📱mobile signet:
Sync a wallet with Kyoto - Book of BDK
Book of BDK
https://bitcoin-safe.org/uk/download/
Join the BDK Wallet beta
Available on iOS
📢 `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 @tvpeter for his tireless work as a maintainer and our two new contributors 110CodingP and va-an!
GitHub
Release Release 2.0.0 · bitcoindevkit/bdk-cli
Summary
This release updates bdk_wallet to 2.1.0, adds Taproot descriptor support, and introduces --pretty output formatting. It also adds redb as ...
Big news from project grantee Nymius ( 🙌
"First BDK silent payment wallet roundtrip on signet 🚀 :
* Funding tx (
, using bdk-cli and bdk_sp::send::psbt::derive_sp
* 'Cashback' tx ( 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"
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The Mempool Open Source Project®
Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.
The Mempool Open Source Project®
Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.
We're excited to award @Luis Schwab 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 @npub13s0k...5g70 or their early support for Luis and his work through their Vinteum Fellowship program.
📣 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.
GitHub
Release Release wallet-2.1.0 · bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet
Summary
This release of bdk_wallet v2.1.0 introduces two significant features: comprehensive support for BIP-389 two-path multipath descriptors wit...
📢 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!
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GitHub
GitHub - bitcoindevkit/bdk-swift: Swift package for bdk-ffi
Swift package for bdk-ffi . Contribute to bitcoindevkit/bdk-swift development by creating an account on GitHub.
Maven Central
Maven Central: org.bitcoindevkit:bdk-android
Discover bdk-android in the org.bitcoindevkit namespace. Explore metadata, contributors, the Maven POM file, and more.
Maven Central
Maven Central: org.bitcoindevkit:bdk-jvm
Discover bdk-jvm in the org.bitcoindevkit namespace. Explore metadata, contributors, the Maven POM file, and more.
Client Challenge
2025 Q2 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
bdk_wallet 2.0, BDK YouTube, and more!
Bitcoin Dev Kit Documentation
2025 Q2 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
2025 Q2 Update on the Bitcoin Dev Kit Project
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
📢 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: 
GitHub
Release Release wallet-2.0.0 · bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet
Summary
This release includes a bug fix for handling stuck or evicted transactions, performance enhancements for large wallets, more extensive test...
📣 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: 
GitHub
Release Release wallet-2.0.0-beta.0 · bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet
Summary
This is a beta release in preparation for a final v2.0.0 of BDK wallet. We encourage users to test the release and report any issues.
The r...
A big thanks to @tvpeter 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 Q1 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
bdk_wallet 1.1, Book of BDK, Kyoto, and more!
Bitcoin Dev Kit Documentation
2025 Q1 Update: What Have We Been Up To?
2025 Q1 Update on the Bitcoin Dev Kit Project
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
Happy to announce our first new BDK Foundation corporate members for 2025 @AnchorWatch, @CleanSpark_Inc, and @Proton Wallet 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/
We're excited to have @Leonardo 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 @npub13s0k...5g70 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
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:
GitHub
Release Release wallet-1.2.0 · bitcoindevkit/bdk
Summary
In this release of bdk_wallet 1.2.0 The TxBuilder add_recipient function now accepts anything that implements Into<ScriptBuf>. The wallet c...