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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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129 links in 25 sections, with live GitHub stats.activeno commit in 2y

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

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

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

  • Fullnode

    Javascript implementation of bitcoin

  • 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++

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