Getting Started

Notice

This book is up-to-date with version 1.0.0 of the bdk_wallet rust library.

Install Rust

See the Rust Getting Started page to install the Rust development tools.

Using BDK in a Rust project

Follow these steps to use BDK in your own rust project with the electrum blockchain client.

1. Create a new Rust project:

cargo init my_bdk_app
cd my_bdk_app

1. Add bdk_wallet to your Cargo.toml file. Find the latest bdk_wallet release on crates.io, for example:

cargo add bdk_wallet@1.0.0

1. Add other required dependencies:

cargo add bdk_electrum@0.20.1

Follow the Sync a Wallet with Electrum page for a simple example of how to create and sync a wallet.