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About

rust-bitcoin refers to the GitHub rust-bitcoin organization and also to the main repository (and Rust crate) within that organization.

The rust-bitcoin crate is a library that supports the Bitcoin network protocol and associated primitives. It is designed for Rust programs built to work with the Bitcoin network.

Crates

The rust-bitcoin organization includes a number of repositories containing various Rust crates that you may find useful when writing Rust code that interacts with the Bitcoin network.

  • rust-bitcoincore-rpc: A client library for the Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC API.

  • rust-miniscript: Miniscript is an alternative to Bitcoin Script. It can be efficiently and simply encoded as Script to ensure that it works on the Bitcoin blockchain, but its design is very different.

  • rust-bitcoin: Your one-stop-shop for interacting with the Bitcoin network in Rust.

  • bitcoin-hashes: A simple, no-dependency library which implements the hash functions needed by Bitcoin.

  • rust-secp256k1: Rust bindings for Pieter Wuille’s secp256k1 library, which is used for fast and accurate manipulation of signatures on the secp256k1 curve.

  • rust-bitcoinconsensus: Rust bindings for the libbitcoinconsensus library from Bitcoin Core.

  • rust-bech32: Rust implementation of the Bech32 encoding format described in BIP-0173 and Bech32m encoding format described in BIP-0350.

Projects

Currently rust-bitcoin is used by a number of projects, including:

  • electrs: Electrum server in Rust.
  • Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK): A library that allows you to seamlessly build cross-platform Bitcoin wallets without worrying about bitcoin internals.
  • Lightning Dev Kit (LDK): A library that allows you to build a lightning node without worrying about implementing low-level lightning logic correctly.
  • Fedimint: Federated chaumian e-cash on Bitcoin.
  • Mutiny Wallet: Mutiny is a self-custodial lightning wallet that runs in the browser.