thunderbiscuit
Oct 1, 2026
Q3 2026 was a quarter of building on the 3.0 foundation. bdk_wallet 3.2.0 starts the move to caller-owned keys by deprecating the wallet-owned signing APIs, and ships an early look at a new PSBT building API powered by bdk-tx. Our Dart bindings reached a stable 1.0, bdk-cli hit 4.0 with experimental silent payments support, and two members of the team gave talks at bitcoin++ in Toronto.
thunderbiscuit
Aug 27, 2026
Q2 2026 is the quarter the 3.0 line landed. bdk_wallet 3.0.0 shipped in April, 3.1.0 followed in June, and the 3.0 API made its way out to every language we support: Swift, Kotlin, Android, JVM, Python, React Native, and Dart. Along the way we welcomed two new corporate members to the BDK Foundation, added two new grantees to the team, and published the first release of a brand new library.
Steve Myers
June 1, 2026
The Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) Foundation is happy to announce two new corporate members joining us in Q2 2026 - Satoshi Patcioli and mempool.space! A big thanks to our new Foundation members as well as our continuing members Spiral, OpenSats, AnchorWatch, CleanSpark, and Proton Foundation for supporting our mission. Corporate members' yearly dues fund the small team of open source developers who maintain the core BDK libraries and related, supporting FOSS projects.
thunderbiscuit
Apr 20, 2026
Q1 2026 was headlined by the release candidate cycle for bdk_wallet 3.0.0, a major milestone the team has been building toward for over a year. Alongside that, we welcomed two new associate members to the BDK Foundation, saw continued momentum in mobile library development, and formalized maintainership and support tiers across every library in the GitHub org.
thunderbiscuit
Jan 21, 2026
Q4 saw two new feature releases of the bdk_wallet library (2.2.0 and 2.3.0), continued work on documentation, and a strong presence at TABConf where four team members presented talks and workshops. We also had a productive three-day summit in Nashville where a large part of the team met with other Rust + Bitcoin developers.
Steve Myers
Dec 17, 2025
I recently joined Bitcoin News for a friendly conversation about Bitcoin Development Kit’s origins, mission, and where we’re headed. I shared how BDK grew from an early side project into a cross-platform foundation, powering wallets and Bitcoin applications across the ecosystem.
thunderbiscuit
Nov 6, 2025
Q3 saw a new feature release of the bdk_wallet library (2.1.0), with great new features being added including support for multipath descriptors, more flexible transaction building capabilities, as well as better caching when working with large wallets.
matthewramsden
Jul 2, 2025
The second quarter of 2025 was an exciting one for the Bitcoin Dev Kit. With major releases, new libraries, a YouTube launch, and ongoing contributions from our community of grantees and collaborators, BDK continues to push forward the frontier of building Bitcoin wallets.
Steve Myers
Apr 8, 2025
The Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) Foundation is happy to announce our first new corporate members for 2025 - AnchorWatch, CleanSpark, and Proton Foundation! A big thanks to our new Foundation members as well as our founding members Spiral and OpenSats for supporting our mission. Corporate members' yearly dues fund the small team of open source developers who maintain the core BDK libraries and related, supporting FOSS projects.
thunderbiscuit
Apr 2, 2025
The bitcoindevkit team is hitting cruising speed after the release of the 1.0 bdk_wallet API. We are implementing a new release cadence of 8-week cycles, planning to do a feature release (1.1, 1.2, etc.) on these dates for 2025.