Silent Payments For Developers
For the developers among you, this page is a simple page to point you in the right direction for where to look into for integration on both the wallet and scanning side.
Want to contribute? Checkout the Silent Payments Development Tracker
Wallet libraries
| Library | Language | Sending | Receiving | BIP375 | BIP376 | Used by |
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| bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib | JavaScript | - | - | - | ||
| BDK SP | Rust | - | - | - | ||
| BlueWallet/SilentPayments | TypeScript | - | - | - | BlueWallet | |
| cake-tech/bitcoin_base | Dart | - | Cake Wallet | |||
| cake-tech/sp_scanner | Dart | - | - | - | Cake Wallet | |
| go-bip352 | Go | - | - | BlindBit Desktop | ||
| silent-pay 1 | TypeScript | - | - | - | ||
| shakesco/silent | JavaScript | - | - | Shakepay | ||
| spdk 2 | Rust | - | Dana Wallet |
Scanning back-ends
The following indexer implementations provide the server-side scanning infrastructure that light wallets rely on. See the Silent Payments Indexer Server Spec for the common API.
| Server | Type | State | Index Size3 | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bindex-rs | Tweak Server | WIP | ~8.3 GB | romanz/bindex-rs |
| BlindBit Oracle v2 | Tweak Server | stable | ~105 GB | setavenger/blindbit-oracle |
| Electrs (Cake fork) | Tweak Server | WIP | ~3 TB | cake-tech/electrs |
| Frigate | Remote Scanner | experimental | ~18 GB | sparrowwallet/frigate |
Additional Resources
- Silent Payments Working Group
- BitBox Blog
- Silent Payments Dev Hub
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This library is currently in an experimental stage. It has not undergone extensive testing and may contain bugs or unexpected behavior. Mainnet use is strictly NOT recommended. ↩︎
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This crate is still quite new. Review this library carefully before using it with mainnet funds. ↩︎
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Index sizes are approximate and vary with hardware and pruning configuration. Tweak servers store only the elliptic curve tweak data per block; remote scanners store additional per-output data to do full scanning on the server side. ↩︎