A Series of projects to implement various Bitcoin protocols in Rust.

rust-bitcoin hosts thebitcoin crate that supports theBitcoin network protocol and associated primitives. It is designed for Rust programs built to workwith the Bitcoin network.

The "core" crates developed and maintained collectively by therust-bitcoin devs. There is a listof officialmaintainersfor thebitcoin crate, for other crates please see the git index to get an idea of who is who.

For these crates we hold ourselves to high standards relating to security, testing, releaseschedule, API design, and coding style. Our current focus is on stabilizing these crates¹.

We aim to make usage of these crates secure, ergonomic, and intuitive. We try to enable users ofthese crates to follow software engineering best practices e.g., semver compliance.

If we fall short of these stated aims, or can in anyway improve our support of Bitcoin free softwareprojects, please raise issues or contact maintainers directly. For security related issues pleaseseeSECURITY.md.

If you write proprietary software and want better integration with these crates by all means raiseissues on the respective repository. We are interested in all users and your usecase may help usimprove the libraries, however all development is done in the open and will stay that way.

Other crates/repositories hosted here and developed and maintained by the community.

These crates are developed and maintained by a subset of therust-bitcoin devs or other members ofthe community. We are fairly open about hosting any Bitcoin-related crates in this organization, providedthat they are actively maintained. Other requirements are:

• The repository contains Bitcoin-specific crates (implies Bitcoin-only and not general purpose crates).
• The repository has at least minimal CI.
• The author has made at least some effort to adhere to practices and standards maintained in thecore crates (defined above).

These crates may not be reviewed or maintained by the primaryrust-bitcoin maintainers. Keep this inmind when choosing to use them as dependencies. And as with any dependencies, you should review newversions rather than blindly upgrading.

Repositories that are not crates (libraries).

These crates have either been moved to another location or are no longer actively maintained.

• constants:rust-bitcoin/constants#9
• rust-bitcoin/rust-bech32-bitcoin#39

Repositories