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Below is a comprehensive list of all the Bitcoin projects that we track for discussing updates on the Bitcoin.Review podcast.

Bitcoin Core

  • Bitcoin: Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
  • HWI: Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Interface

Coinkite Products

  • COLDCARD Firmware: Firmware and simulator for Coldcard Hardware Wallet
  • COLDCARD Edge Firmware
  • SATSCHIP: Add #Bitcoin authenticity to your artwork
  • SATSCARD: Like cash in hand, pass physical Bitcoin along multiple times
  • TAPSIGNER: The simple Bitcoin wallet in your pocket.
  • BLOCKCLOCK: an electro-mechanical display
  • BLOCKCLOCK MINI: Bitcoiner’s new favorite display art device

Signing Devices:

  • Ledger
  • Trezor
  • Keystone
  • Seedsigner: Use an air-gapped Raspberry Pi Zero to sign for Bitcoin transactions
  • Specter DIY: DIY airgapped hardware wallet that uses QR codes for communication with the host
  • Krux: Open-source signing device firmware for Bitcoin
  • Krux Installer: A GUI based application to flash Krux firmware on K210 based devices (WIP)
  • BitKey: Self-custody bitcoin wallet with an app, hardware, and recovery tools.
  • Frostsnap: Firmware and software for Frostsnap - easy, personalized, secure Bitcoin multisignatures
  • Portal: Firmware and supporting libraries for the Portal Hardware Wallet

Desktop Wallets:

  • Fully Noded: Self sovereign, secure, powerful, easy to use wallet that utilizes your own node as a backend.
  • Electrum: Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
  • Electrs: An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust
  • Specter Desktop: A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets
  • Sparrow Wallet: Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source.
  • Wasabi Wallet: Open-source, non-custodial, privacy preserving Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
  • Liana: The missing safety net for your coins
  • Mycitadel-Desktop: MyCitadel Wallet app for Linux, Windows & MacOS desktop made with GTK+3

Servers

  • Electrum Personal Server: Maximally lightweight electrum server for a single user
  • Floresta: A fully-validating Bitcoin node powered by Utreexo, with an integrated Electrum Server
  • Phoenixd: Server equivalent of the popular Phoenix wallet for mobile.

Mobile Wallets

  • BlueWallet: Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android
  • Blockstream Green: A multi-platform, feature-rich Bitcoin and Liquid wallet
  • Nunchuk: Security and privacy. Get both with Nunchuk Bitcoin wallet.
  • Zeus: A mobile Bitcoin wallet fit for the gods
  • Muun: Self-custodial wallet for bitcoin and lightning
  • Wallet of Satoshi: simple Bitcoin Lightning wallet
  • Breez: Breez is a Lightning Network mobile client and a hub
  • Blixt: Bitcoin Lightning Wallet with focus on usability and user experience
  • Phoenix: self-custodial Bitcoin wallet using Lightning to send/receive payments.
  • bitnob: Send and receive money globally
  • Bitcoin Tribe: A simple bitcoin wallet made to be used with Friends and Family
  • Cash App: Send and spend, bank, and buy stocks or bitcoin
  • Keeper: open source, bitcoin-only app designed for seasoned bitcoin hodlers
  • Keeper Desktop: a secure, cross-platform desktop app for using hardware wallets with the Bitcoin Keeper mobile app.
  • Pouch.ch: The Philippines’ top app for bitcoin savings + global payments
  • Simple Bitcoin Wallet: non-custodial Bitcoin wallet for Android.
  • Osmo: Send, receive, pay, invest and save through Bitcoin.
  • Plasma: Core Lightning Wallet
  • Aqua Wallet: free, open-source wallet for iOS and Android.
  • Silentium: BIP352 light mobile wallet
  • Volt: modern descriptor-based bitcoin wallet
  • Bitcoin Jungle Mobile: fork of GaloyMobile, Bitcoin Beach Wallet mobile application
  • ProtonWallet: open-source, E2E-encrypted, and self-custodial Bitcoin wallet
    • Andromeda: libraries aim to provide logical blocks to build a privacy-focused, cross-platform, self-custody Bitcoin and Lightning wallet. [Github]
    • Flutter-app: Proton Wallet application [Github]
  • Bitcoin Safe: A Bitcoin Wallet for the entire Family
  • BullBitcoin mobile: The Bull Bitcoin Mobile Wallet and Exchange App
  • Diamond Wallet: self-custodial Lightning wallet from built using Breez SDK and Blockstream’s Greenlight nodes
  • Alby Go: The easiest mobile app to use bitcoin on the Go and that works great with Alby Hub
  • Kyoto, Bitcoin Light Client: An implementation of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 157/158

Bitcoin Testnet

  • Padawan Wallet: The bitcoin wallet trainer on Android

Lightning Implementations

  • Core Lightning: Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
  • LND: Lightning Network Daemon
  • LDK: A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust.
  • Eclair: A scala implementation of the Lightning Network.

Lightning Tools and Projects

  • Alby: Wallet interface to multiple lightning nodes and key signer for Nostr, Liquid and onchain use
    • [Website]((https://getalby.com/)
    • Github
  • LNbits: free and open-source Lightning wallet and accounts system
  • ZEBEDEE: free and open-source Lightning wallet and accounts system
  • Mutiny Wallet: self-custodial lightning wallet that runs everywhere
  • Mutiny Node: SDK behind Mutiny Wallet
  • Lightning Terminal: browser-based interface for managing channel liquidity
  • mercury-node: Lightning node (service) for mercury wallet
  • Polar: One-click Bitcoin Lightning networks for local app development & testing
  • Lightning Loop: on-Custodial Off/On Chain Bridge
  • Spark wallet: all-in-one software solutions for the cryptocurrency payments, online payments, and financial transactions
  • LNp2pBot: Peer-to-peer lightning network telegram bot
  • Bijli: Non-Custodial Bitcoin Lightning Wallet
  • lnrecc: A tool for streamlining recurring lightning payments

Lightning Testing

  • lnprototest: Lightning BOLT Protocol Test Framework
  • scaling-lightning: A Testing Toolkit for the Lightning Network

Payments

  • BTCPay Server: Free and open-source Bitcoin payment processor which allows you to accept bitcoin without fees or intermediaries
  • Swiss Bitcoin Pay: Accept Bitcoin payments in your business
  • Speed Bitcoin POS: Lightning Bitcoin payment processor for businesses of all sizes to accept online or in-person payments
  • lipa
    • Non-custodial mobile Lightning wallet for individuals iOS
    • Bitcoin and Lightning merchant payments for businesses iOS/Android
  • LDK node: A ready-to-go node implementation built using LDK
  • Musqet: Securely accept payments in store or online and receive Bitcoin from anywhere in the world

Dev Kits/Primatives/Protocols

  • Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK): A modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust
  • Breez SDK: end-to-end solution for integrating self-custodial Lightning payments into apps and services
  • libwally-core: cross-platform, cross-language collection of useful primitives for cryptocurrency wallets
  • libwally-swift: Swift wrapper for LibWally, a collection of useful primitives for cryptocurrency wallets
  • Nix-Bitcoin: collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
  • rgb-core: command-line tool & wallet runtime library for desktop and mobile integration
  • Descriptor wallet library: Library for building descriptor-based bitcoin wallets using rust-bitcoin
  • alby-js-sdk: JavaScript SDK for the Alby OAuth2 Wallet API and the Nostr Wallet Connect API.
  • taproot-assets: layer 1 daemon, for the Taproot Assets Protocol specification
  • libsecp256k1: Optimized C library for EC operations on curve secp256k1
  • ckcc-protocol 1.4.0: Coldcard CLI and Python Interface Library
  • BIP-329 Python Library: provides a set of tools for working with BIP-329 compliant label files.
  • Smart Vaults: Bitcoin multi-custody signature orchestration
  • coinselect: TypeScript library for Bitcoin transaction management
  • Alby Bitcoin Connect: Enable WebLN in all browsers with a single button
  • Liquid Wallet Kit: collection of Rust crates for Liquid Wallets
  • Ark: layer-two protocol designed to scale Bitcoin transactions

Nodes

  • Umbrel: home server OS for self-hosting with an app store
  • RasPiBlitz: do-it-yourself Bitcoin & Lightning Fullnode running on a RaspberryPi 4&5
  • StartOS: Open source Linux distro optimized for self-hosting
  • MyNode: run a dedicated, easy to use, Bitcoin Node and Lightning Wallet
  • Citadel: simple, minimalistic host system components for running a Citadel server
  • MicroBolt: self-hosted Bitcoin & Lightning full node guide on a personal computer

Node management

  • Torq: Advanced node management software that helps lightning node operators analyze and automate their nodes.
  • Thunderhub: ThunderHub LND Lightning Node Manager in your Browser
  • Clams Remote: Remote control your Core Lightning node
  • Bolt.Observer: enterprise-grade solutions for node management, liquidity, and observability.
  • Coffee: Reference implementation for a flexible core lightning plugin manager
  • BitBanana: Lightning Node Management for Android
  • validating-lightning-signer: library and reference implementation for a signer module to secure Lightning nodes.
  • Lightning Orb: cross-platform application for managing an LND / CLN Lightning node.
  • LNDg: GUI for LND Data Analysis and Node Management
  • Nodeyez: Display panels to get the most from your node.
  • CLBOSS: Automated Core Lightning Node Manager
  • Ride the Lightning: A full function web browser app for LND, C-Lightning and Eclair
  • Mutiny-StartOS: Mutiny Wallet for StartOS
  • Utreexo: Hash based dynamic accumulator
  • Utreexod: Fully validating Bitcoin node with Utreexo support
  • Greenlight: Build apps using self-custodial lightning nodes in the cloud

Privacy Tools

  • JoinMarket: Bitcoin CoinJoin implementation with incentive structure to convince people to take part
  • Joininbox: A terminal based graphical menu for JoinMarket
  • Jam: A modern interface for JoinMarket
  • Rust-Payjoin: Supercharged payment batching to save you fees and preserve your privacy

Block Explorers:

  • Mempool.Space: The Mempool Open Source Project™
  • BTC RPC Explorer: Database-free, self-hosted Bitcoin explorer, via RPC to Bitcoin Core.
  • Blockstream Satellite: Protects against network interruptions and provides areas without reliable internet connection access to the Bitcoin network.
  • Mempal: A Bitcoin mempool monitoring and notification app for Android.

Exchanges

Federated Cash

  • Cashu Nutshell: Chaumian Ecash wallet and mint for Bitcoin Lightning
  • Cashu.me: Cashu wallet PWA
  • Cashu Development Kit: CDK is a collection of rust crates for Cashu wallets and mints written in Rust
  • Fedimint: Federated E-Cash Mint
  • Nutstash Wallet: Cashu Wallet with multi-mint and send-to-nostr-key functionality
  • Github
  • Nutstash Browser Extension: Cashu Browser Extension
  • eNuts: A Cashu wallet for Android and iOS
  • Cashcrab: A Cashu wallet with a flutter UI and with as much logic as possible in rust using cashu-crab with nostr integration for contacts and messaging.
  • Minibits Wallet: (Beta) Ecash and Lightning wallet with a focus on ease of use and security

Podcasting 2.0

Rewards

  • The Bitcoin Company: Buy prepaid Visa cards with bitcoin and spend them almost anywhere
  • Satsback: an evolution of cashback and loyalty rewards.
  • Lolli: Earn free rewards at 25,000+ top stores
  • Oshi: Integrate Bitcoin rewards into your business with ease
  • Smiles Bitcoin: Get free Bitcoin rewards for walking, shopping, playing games, and surveys.
  • Joltz: Unlock the Bitcoin economy with Taproot assets.

Mining

  • ESP-Miner: A bitcoin ASIC miner for the ESP32
  • NerdMiner: Open-source Micro Miner
  • DATUM Gateway: Decentralized Alternative Templates for Universal Mining

Hobbyist Projects

  • Orange Clock: OrangeClock displays moscow time
  • M17-Project Module_17: M17 modem board for 9600-baud capable radios
  • Sideband: extensible LXMF messaging client, situational awareness tracker and remote control and monitoring system for Android, Linux, macOS and Windows
  • NomadNet:Off-grid, resilient mesh communication with strong encryption, forward secrecy and extreme privacy.
  • reticulum-meshchat: A simple mesh network communications app powered by the Reticulum Network Stack

Tools & Productivity

  • BIP39-XOR: Encrypt or decrypt BIP39 codewords array using exclusive OR (XOR)/Vernam cipher
  • LabelBase: label management service for Bitcoin transactions and addresses
  • Pylabelbase: official Python API wrapper for LabelBase
  • sms4sats: Send and receive SMS without giving away your phone number
  • Zaprite: Bitcoin invoicing, project management and expense tracking
  • Wavlake: The first-ever Lightning-powered music streaming site
  • SeedHammer: Steel backup specialized for bitcoin multisig wallets
  • TX Pusher: conditional transaction broadcasting tool
  • LiveWallet: An application to help estimate the effect of bitcoin transaction fees on invididual utxos and transactions containing multiple utxos.

Smart contracts

  • BitMask: Bitcoin-only web wallet and browser extension for accessing decentralized web applications on the Bitcoin timechain

Privacy Software

Other

  • BTC Map: Easily find places to spend sats anywhere on the planet.
  • Atomic.finance: Earn returns on your Bitcoin, while holding your keys.
  • Emeralize: A lightning marketplace and lightweight learning management system.