Although there is *some* code to handle multipath keys inside bdk, it's all untested, and from a few quick tests it seems that it's pretty easy to find buggy edge cases. Better to deny multipath descs for now, and revisit the decision once we work on supporting multidescriptor wallets.
The Bitcoin Dev Kit
BDK

A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust!
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About
The bdk
libraries aims to provide well engineered and reviewed components for Bitcoin based applications.
It is built upon the excellent rust-bitcoin
and rust-miniscript
crates.
⚠ The Bitcoin Dev Kit developers are in the process of releasing a
v1.0
which is a fundamental re-write of how the library works. See for some background on this project: https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/road-to-bdk-1/ (ignore the timeline 😁) For a release timeline see thebdk_core_staging
repo where a lot of the component work is being done. The plan is that everything in thebdk_core_staging
repo will be moved into thecrates
directory here.
Architecture
The project is split up into several crates in the /crates
directory:
bdk
: Contains the central high levelWallet
type that is built from the low-level mechanisms provided by the other componentschain
: Tools for storing and indexing chain datafile_store
: A (experimental) persistence backend for storing chain data in a single file.esplora
: Extends theesplora-client
crate with methods to fetch chain data from an esplora HTTP server in the form that [bdk_chain
] andWallet
can consume.electrum
: Extends theelectrum-client
crate with methods to fetch chain data from an electrum server in the form that [bdk_chain
] andWallet
can consume.
Fully working examples of how to use these components are in /example-crates
Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)
This library should compile with any combination of features with Rust 1.57.0.
To build with the MSRV you will need to pin dependencies as follows:
# log 0.4.19 has MSRV 1.60.0+
cargo update -p log --precise "0.4.18"
# tempfile 3.7.0 has MSRV 1.63.0
cargo update -p tempfile --precise "3.6.0"