2024 Q1 Project Update
# Core BDK
The majority of BDK rust library work this quarter was towards finishing new and improved electrum, esplora and Bitcoin Core RPC (block-by-block) syncing APIs. Bug fixes and improvements were also completed for the transaction builder and other wallet APIs. Six bi-weekly 1.0.0-alpha releases were made (alpha.3 (opens new window), alpha.4 (opens new window), alpha.5 (opens new window), alpha.6 (opens new window), alpha.7 (opens new window), alpha.8 (opens new window)). For the quarter 54 PRs (opens new window) were merged and 55 issues (opens new window) were closed.
# BDK-FFI
For the language binding libraries (Kotlin, Swift, Python) the focus was on small bug fixes for the pre-1.0 releases (0.30.0 (opens new window) and 0.30.1 (opens new window)) and creating the first 1.0.0-alpha bindings release (1.0.0-alpha.7 (opens new window)). For the quarter 23 PRs (opens new window) were merged and 8 issues (opens new window) closed.
# Plans for Next Quarter
The focus for Q2 development is completing our first 1.0.0 beta release and improving user docs and testing for it. The team will also work on updating all language bindings (Kotlin/Swift/Python) to use new rust lib 1.0.0 beta APIs.
# BDK contributors spotlight
In this section we share what some of our hardworking contributors are doing to educate people about BDK, help on board new projects, and generally promote bitcoin and open source development around the world.
Evan Linjin (opens new window)
February 22: Gave a talk on BDK 1.0 at BTC++ (opens new window) in Buena Aires, Argentina.
Other current and future contributors...
If you are a contributor to BDK and doing something fun that's BDK and/or bitcoin related let us know! Tag @bitcoindevkit (opens new window) on X, notmandatory (opens new window) on nostr, or send us an email: blog at bitcoindevkit dot org.