BSV SDK (Rust)

Pure Rust implementation of the BSV Blockchain SDK, providing cryptographic primitives, transaction building, script interpretation, wallet operations, and authenticated overlay network services -- all without external crypto dependencies.

Installation

Add to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
bsv-sdk = "0.1.6"

To enable async HTTP and WebSocket functionality (wallet services, overlay networks):

[dependencies]
bsv-sdk = { version = "0.1.6", features = ["network"] }

Quick Start

use bsv::primitives::{PrivateKey, PublicKey};
use bsv::script::Address;

fn main() {
    // Import a private key from WIF format
    let wif = "L3yMBjkWMnBcFcqdaMSPK8gSvNiEGgRo5bBrfFabqdRTGVRjcwJR";
    let private_key = PrivateKey::from_wif(wif).expect("valid WIF");

    // Derive the public key and address
    let public_key = PublicKey::from_private_key(&private_key);
    let address = Address::from_public_key(&public_key).expect("valid address");

    println!("Address: {}", address);
}

Module Overview

Module	Description	Key Types
`primitives`	Core cryptographic primitives: keys, hashing, ECDSA, AES-GCM, Shamir secret sharing	`PrivateKey`, `PublicKey`, `BigNumber`, `Point`, `SymmetricKey`, `KeyShares`
`script`	Bitcoin script parsing, execution, and template matching	`Script`, `LockingScript`, `UnlockingScript`, `Address`, `Inscription`
`transaction`	Transaction building, serialization, BEEF/Merkle proofs	`Transaction`, `TransactionInput`, `TransactionOutput`, `Beef`, `MerklePath`
`wallet`	BRC-100 wallet interface, Type-42 key derivation, serialization	`ProtoWallet`, `WalletClient`, `HttpWalletJson`, `CachedKeyDeriver`
`auth`	BRC-31 authenticated transport, certificates, peer communication	`Peer`, `AuthFetch`, `Certificate`, `Transport`
`compat`	Compatibility modules: BIP32, BIP39, BSM, ECIES	`ExtendedKey`, `Mnemonic`, `Bsm`, `ElectrumEcies`, `BitcoreEcies`
`services`	Overlay network services: lookup, broadcast, identity	`LookupResolver`, `TopicBroadcaster`, `IdentityClient`, `GlobalKVStore`

Examples

The SDK includes 14 runnable examples demonstrating common workflows:

Offline Examples (no external services)

Example	Description	Command
`address_from_wif`	Import WIF private key, derive public key and address	`cargo run --example address_from_wif`
`create_wallet`	BIP39 mnemonic generation and BIP32 HD wallet creation	`cargo run --example create_wallet`
`create_signature`	Create and verify Type-42 signatures with ProtoWallet	`cargo run --example create_signature`
`encrypt_decrypt`	AES-GCM symmetric encryption and decryption	`cargo run --example encrypt_decrypt`
`create_hmac`	HMAC creation and verification	`cargo run --example create_hmac`
`keyshares_backup`	Shamir secret sharing: split key into shares, reconstruct	`cargo run --example keyshares_backup`
`hd_key_derivation`	BIP32 hierarchical deterministic key derivation chains	`cargo run --example hd_key_derivation`
`ecies_encrypt`	ECIES encryption (Electrum and Bitcore variants)	`cargo run --example ecies_encrypt`
`p2pkh_transaction`	Build, sign, and serialize a P2PKH transaction	`cargo run --example p2pkh_transaction`
`op_return_transaction`	Embed data on-chain with OP_RETURN outputs	`cargo run --example op_return_transaction`
`inscription_transaction`	Create content-typed inscriptions (OP_FALSE OP_RETURN)	`cargo run --example inscription_transaction`
`verify_beef`	BEEF V1 serialization round-trip and verification	`cargo run --example verify_beef`
`certificate_operations`	BRC-52 certificate construction and field management	`cargo run --example certificate_operations`

Network Examples (requires `--features network`)

Example	Description	Command
`wallet_client_action`	BRC-100 wallet workflow: getPublicKey, createAction, signAction via JSON API	`cargo run --example wallet_client_action --features network`

The wallet_client_action example connects to a BRC-100 wallet service via HttpWalletJson (JSON API, default http://localhost:3321). Set the WALLET_URL environment variable to use a custom endpoint.

Performance

Benchmarked against the TypeScript BSV SDK across 57 operations. The Rust SDK is faster in 55 of 57 benchmarks.

Highlights

Operation	TS (ms)	Rust (ms)	Speedup
BigNumber add (large)	30.08	1.11	27.2x
BN toArray (big-endian)	0.80	0.01	67.6x
BN toArray (little-endian)	0.85	0.01	57.5x
SHA-256 32B	0.0015	0.0002	8.6x
SHA-512 32B	0.0027	0.0002	11.1x
ECDSA sign	0.81	0.48	1.7x
ECDSA verify	1.54	1.06	1.5x
SymmetricKey encrypt 2MB	849.40	131.02	6.5x
SymmetricKey decrypt 2MB	823.64	130.57	6.3x
ECIES Electrum encrypt 64KB	4.51	0.50	9.1x
Transaction signing (deep chain)	176.09	51.78	3.4x
Script findAndDelete (8K chunks)	0.70	0.07	10.4x
Reader/Writer large payloads	17.13	1.62	10.5x
Atomic BEEF serialize	0.64	0.10	6.2x
HMAC-SHA512 1KB	0.016	0.003	5.9x

Areas at Parity or Slower

Operation	TS (ms)	Rust (ms)	Ratio	Notes
BigNumber mul (large)	0.78	1.79	0.4x	BN.js comb algorithm is highly optimized for this case
ECIES Electrum decrypt 32B	0.03	0.07	0.5x	Degenerate small-payload key derivation overhead
ECC Point.mul	0.36	0.43	0.9x	Near parity

Full benchmark report: Rust-vs-TS-performance.md

Feature Flags

Feature	Description
`network`	Enables async HTTP/WebSocket functionality via tokio, reqwest, and tungstenite. Required for `HttpWalletJson`, `LookupResolver`, `TopicBroadcaster`, and other network-dependent types.
(default)	Pure cryptography and data structures. No async runtime, no network I/O.

Minimum Supported Rust Version

MSRV: 1.87

Required for stabilized is_multiple_of, div_ceil, and other standard library features used throughout the crate.

License

Open BSV License. See LICENSE for details.

bsv-sdk 0.1.6