W24 BDK Language Bindings Dev Call

[thunderbiscuit]

Bitcoindevkit Language Bindings Dev Call

📆 June 14, 2022 13:00 UTC
📍 Discord General Voice Channel

Discussion Items

• "Following" the LDK announcement Discord channel
• 0.5.1 to 0.7.0 migration guide
• Following the BDK release schedule (should we start with 0.20.0?)
• Version 0.7.0 of bdk-ffi should be ready this week
• @thunderbiscuit working on indentifying APIs required in the bindings to fully interoperate with ldk-java (ldk-swift uses different bindings and so might have slightly different requirements)
• Type-safe descriptor builder?
• Any review begs? 🙏
• Blockers? 🪨

Dependent Projects and Support

• Hardware project
• Kldk Node (Kotlin Lightning node built with LDK)
• RGB
• React-native/Flutter
• Bull Bitcoin

Top Issues and PRs

• MERGED: #162 Update BDK to version 0.19.0
• MERGED: #161 Match bdk API and return a boolean when signing a PSBT
• OPEN: #148 Add Wallet and TxBuilder tests using test funded wallet
• OPEN: #154 Add child key pair generation api
• OPEN: #158 Add list_unspent method
• OPEN: #164 Add coin selection methods

Boards

FFI project board
Kotlin project board
Swift project board
Python project board