Awesome Bitcoin with Rust

A collection of awesome open source Rust Bitcoin projects, libraries and packages.

Projects

• Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) - With BDK, you can seamlessly build cross platform mobile wallets.

• Lightning Dev Kit (LDK) - The simplest way to integrate Lightning into your Bitcoin wallet.

• Nakamoto - Privacy-preserving Bitcoin light-client implementation in Rust.

• Revault - A superior custody solution for institutions holding Bitcoin.

• Fedimint - A modular open source protocol to custody and transact bitcoin in a community context, built on a strong foundation of privacy.

• LNP/BP - Non-profit supervising layer 2 & 3 protocols on Bitcoin & Lightning Network.

• Braiins OS - Our mission is to give you complete control of your Bitcoin mining operation.

• Galoy Money - Bitcoin-native banking infrastructure for organizations

• Bitcredit Protocol - Bitcredit Protocol is a community-driven open software project to unblock the adoption of Bitcoin. It provides a fiat-less on-ramp and finances the real economy's working capital and wage fund needs through the decentralised issuance of peer-to-peer Bitcoin credit money.

Libraries & Frameworks

• Rust Bitcoin - Rust Bitcoin library.

• Miniscript - Library for handling Miniscript, which is a subset of Bitcoin Script designed to support simple and general tooling.

• rust-bitcoin-rpc - This is a Rust RPC client library for calling the Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC API.

• Rust Secp256k1 - rust-secp256k1 is a wrapper around libsecp256k1, a C library implementing various cryptographic functions using the SECG curve secp256k1.

• Rust Lightning - A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust.

• LDK Sample - Sample node implementation using LDK.

• electrs - An efficient Electrum Server in Rust

• Blocksteam electrs fork - A block chain index engine and HTTP API written in Rust based on romanz/electrs.

• Blocks Iterator - Iterate over Bitcoin blocks.

• Rusty Paper Wallet - Generates Bitcoin paper wallet offline in a single html page.

• Rust DLC - Rust library for working with Discreet Log Contracts.

• Rust Nostr - The Stage 2 building block to reach the dream of DSNs with Bitcoin DeFi.

• BIP 39 Solver - Brute force BIP-39 Mnemonic using CPU.

• Validating Lightning Signer Improving Lightning security with fully validated remote signing.

• The Eye of Satoshi - Lightning Watchtower

• Bria - The bridge from your applications to the Bitcoin network.

• Fedimint - Fedimint is a module based system for building federated applications. It is designed to be a trust-minimized, censorship-resistant, and private alternative to centralized applications.

• Bitcredit E-Bills - Bitcoin Credit Money Supply for the Real Economy

• Internet Computer Bitcoin Canister

• Bitcoin SPV A low-level toolkit for working with Bitcoin from other blockchain (latest update 2021-06-26).

Wallets

• Mutiny - Mutiny is a self-custodial lightning wallet that runs in the browser. Github code

Smart Contracts & VMs

• RGB - RGB is a system of private & scalable client-validated smart contracts on Bitcoin & Lightning developed by LNP/BP Standards Association.

• BitMask - BitMask is a Bitcoin-only web wallet and browser extension for accessing decentralized web applications on the Bitcoin timechain. It is designed to support UTXO-based smart contracting protocols such as RGB, in addition to Lightning payments.

• bitcoin-scriptexec - This project is a work-in-progress mostly attempting to facilitate BitVM development. It does not yet fully implement all opcodes, but as a library already gives you pretty good insight into the internals of the execution in a step-wise manner.

• Toy BitVM - Toy BitVM in Rust, Experimental toy BitVM implementation in Rust.

• Sapio - A framework for creating composable multi-transaction Bitcoin Smart Contracts.

• Minsc - A Miniscript-based scripting language for Bitcoin contracts, Source code on Github

Indexers

• OPI - Open Protocol Indexer - Open Protocol Indexer(OPI), is the best-in-slot open-source indexing client for meta-protocols on Bitcoin, fork of ord 0.14.0

• Ord - ord is an index, block explorer, and command-line wallet.

Tutorials & Walkthroughs

• Bitcoin From Scratch Part1, Part2: Node, Part3: Network - Bitcoin from scratch with Rust at 2021

• Programming Bitcoin Rust - Rust implement for Programming Bitcoin book video by Gary Krause latest update 2024-01-10

Related Resources

• BIPs - Bitcoin Improvement Proposals

• Bitcoin Wiki - This wiki is a public resource for the community of Bitcoin users, developers, and businesses as well as anyone interested in Bitcoin.

• Bitcoin development philosophy - Bitcoin Development Philosophy is a guide for Bitcoin developers who already understand the basics of concepts and processes such as Proof-of-Work, block building, and the transaction life cycle, and who want to level up by gaining a deeper understanding of Bitcoin’s design trade-offs and philosophy.

• Learn me a bitcoin - A very excellent website for learning Bitcoin technology by Greg Walker

• Building bitcoin in Rust

• Mastering Bitcoin - Mastering Bitcoin is a technical book that explains what Bitcoin is and how it works.

• Programming Bitcoin - by Jimmy Song

• Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line - Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line is a tutorial for working with Bitcoin (and Lightning) that teaches direct interaction with the servers themselves, as the most robust and secure way to begin cryptocurrency work

• Bitcoin Design - Design Bitcoin for everyone, Open-source design for Bitcoin products.

Contribute

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License - MIT License

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