awesome-bitcoin
by igorbarinov
A curated list of bitcoin services and tools for software developers
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Bitcoin toolkit
A curated list of tools and services for software developers to work with Bitcoin
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Utilities
Nigiri
CLI to quickly fire up a a Bitcoin regtest box along with Electrs and Esplora. Includes faucet and push commands
hal
Bitcoin CLI swiss-army-knife (based on rust-bitcoin)
- BitKey
Live USB for airgapped transactions and Bitcoin swiss army knife
Pycoin
Python-based Bitcoin and alt-coin utility library
bx
Bitcoin Command Line Tool
txwatcher
A little Python utility that lets you monitor Bitcoin addresses through Blockchain Websocket API and perform custom callbacks
hellobitcoin
A collection of simple programs which can generate bitcoin wallets, create and sign transactions, and send transactions over the bitcoin network
HD Wallet Scanner
Find all used addresses in your Bitcoin HD wallets bypassing gap limits
<qr-code>
– A no-framework, no-dependencies, customizable, animate-able, SVG-based web component
Blockchain API and Web services
- 3xpl.com
Fastest ad-free universal block explorer
- Bitquery.io
Bitquery provides blockchain data, offering real-time streaming APIs for 40+ chains, NFT APIs, and a money flow investigation tool
- blockchair.com
Universal blockchain explorer and search engine
Esplora
Self-hosted blockchain explorer
Chainradar API
Blockchain Explorer API for Chainradar
One-Time Address
A better way to share your Bitcoin address
- Cryptocurrency Alerting
Bitcoin wallet monitoring and blockchain alerts
- BTC Connect
Unified Bitcoin Layer-1 and Layer-2 wallet connection and account abstraction
- Tatum
The blockchain development platform to build Web3 application. The go-to blockchain data API for Web3 developers
- mempool.space
Open source and self hostable REST, WebSocket and Electrum RPC API
- kibō.money
An open source Bitcoin Core data extractor and visualizer (aka FOSS Glassnode)
Market Data API
- CoinMetrics.io
JSON REST API (free as well as paid) with access to market data. Also CSV data file download available
- Messari.io
JSON REST API (free as well as paid) with access to market data, news, metrics, profile, etc
Wallets API
Open Source Wallets
Privacy projects
Joinmarket
Decentralized CoinJoin implementation
- Jam
User friendly frontend for Joinmarket
Blockchain Explorers
- 3xpl.com
Fastest ad-free universal block explorer
- Blockchair.com
Universal blockchain explorer and search engine
- Blockstream.info
Blockchain explorer with API (mainnet, testnet and Liquid)
- Bitkit
Real time transaction updates
- mempool.space
Open source, self hostable blockchain, mempool and lightning network explorer
C Libraries
C++ Libraries
JavaScript Libraries
bcoin
Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers
- Libauth
– A lightweight, zero-dependency, JavaScript/TypeScript bitcoin library
noble-curves
— audited implementation of secp256k1 + schnorr in pure typescript
noble-secp256k1
— alternative implementation of secp256k1: size is only 4KB gzipped; lots of comments, very valuable for learning how algorithms work
scure-btc-signer
— audited & minimal library for creating, signing & decoding Bitcoin transactions. With Schnorr, Taproot, UTXO & PSBT
bitcoin-sdk-js
— Bitcoin TypeScript/JavaScript Library for NodeJS, Browser and Mobile. Segwit & Taproot support
PHP Libraries
Ruby Libraries
bitcoinrb
Ruby bitcoin library including script interpreter
bech32rb
Bech32 and Bech32m encode/decode library
bip-schnorrrb
Schnorr signature library for Bitcoin
Rust Libraries
- Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK)
With BDK, you can seamlessly build cross platform mobile wallets
Rust Bitcoin
support for de/serialization, parsing and executing on data-structures and network messages
- Lightning Dev Kit (LDK)
Complete Lightning implementation packaged as an SDK
Python Libraries
btctxstore
Simple library to store/retrieve information in bitcoin transactions using OP_RETURN
pybitcointools
Python library for Bitcoin signatures and transactions from Vitalik Buterin. Project discontinued
pycoin
Python library for Bitcoin keys, signatures, transactions. Includes full VM implementation and tools for manipulating keys (ku) and transactions (tx)
bitcoin_tools
Python library for building and analyzing transactions and scripts (both standard and custom). Comes along with a UTXO set analysis tool. Includes several examples and exhaustive documentation
- oogway
A secure Bitcoin utility library for Python
pybtc
Python BTC is an experimental project that aims to provide human-friendly interfaces for common BTC operations
Java Libraries
XChange
Library that provides a simple and consistent API for interacting with 50+ Bitcoin currency exchanges
Bitcoin Spring Boot Starter
Bitcoin integration for Spring Boot applications
Scala libraries
- Bitcoin-S
Scala/JVM toolkit for Bitcoin applications, includes Bitcoin data structures, transaction signing, strongly typed /Eclair RPC clients, and more
Swift libraries
secp256k1.swift
Swift package for secp256k1 applications, includes Elliptic Curve operations, Schnorr, ZKP and more for Bitcoin
.Net Libraries
NBitcoin
Comprehensive Bitcoin library for the .NET framework
BitcoinLib
The most complete, up-to-date, battle-tested .net Library and RPC Wrapper for Bitcoin and Altcoins in C#
Haskell Libraries
Haskoin-core
Haskoin Core is a library of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash functions written in Haskell
Playgrounds
Bitcoin IDE
Bitcoin Script for dummies
blockchain-demo
A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts
Bitcoin Script Debugger
Visualize Bitcoin script execution for real transactions
- Bitauth IDE
– An interactive development environment for Bitcoin contracts
- ChainQuery Bitcoin RPC
Run select bitcoin RPC API calls and read full RPC docs in your browser
Blockchain dump
- WebBTC
These are postgres database dumps of the bitcoin-ruby-blockchain database generated by webbtc.com
BitcoinDatabaseGenerator
A high performance data transfer tool that can be used to copy data from Bitcoin Core blockchain files to a SQL Server database
Blockparser+SQL
Fast, quick and dirty bitcoin blockchain parser
BitcoinABE
Abe: block browser for Bitcoin and similar currencies
Chaingraph
– A multi-node blockchain indexer and GraphQL API
Full nodes
btcd
Go-based full node since 2013
Bitcoin-ruby-node
bitcoin node based on bitcoin-ruby-blockchain
Bitcore Node
bitcoind linked to node.js by BitPay
Bitcore
Formerly just a Nodejs library, now a full node
- Bitcoin Core
direct descendant of the original Bitcoin implementation in C++
Read
- Grokking Bitcoin
An in-depth technical book with rich illustrations
- btcinformation.org / Developer Documentation
Find useful resources, guides and reference material for developers
Course
Additional Resources
- @lopp / Bitcoin Developers
Software developers who have experience working on Bitcoin implementations or applications
- @lopp / Lightning Developers
Software developers with experience working on LN implementations / applications
- bitcoin-resources.com
Meta-list of Bitcoin resources, from books, articles, to podcasts
- Jameson Lopp Bitcoin Resource List
Very detailed curated Bitcoin resource list and meta-list by J. Lopp
- Svrgnty.com: Everything Bitcoin
A curated list of the best Bitcoin resources
- River Learn
A collection of educational resources to learn about Bitcoin basics, investing, technology, and more
- Learn me a Bitcoin - Greg Walker
extensive learning ressource for bitcoin developers
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