Reliable, well-audited developer libraries are the hidden plumbing of bitcoin. They abstract away the heavy lifting—key generation, transaction building, network rules—so wallet creators, node operators, and application developers can focus on user experience. When these libraries mature, they do more than save engineering hours; they embed security best practices, prevent subtle bugs from propagating across projects, and allow new ideas to spread quickly through the ecosystem.

OpenSats funding enables these library developers and maintainers to do all of their high-impact work in public repositories, where every commit and code review is fully transparent, audit-ready, and immediately reusable across the wider Bitcoin ecosystem.

This impact report highlights seven key library initiatives:

• Bitcoin Dev Kit
• Rust-Bitcoin
• Secp256k1
• DLC Dev Kit
• Payjoin Dev Kit
• LN Proto Test
• Splicing in LDK

These initiatives have collectively stabilized core APIs, enhanced cryptographic security, improved privacy features, and enabled advanced functionalities like on-chain derivatives, collaborative payments, protocol testing, and dynamic Lightning channels, resulting in widespread adoption across wallets, nodes, and services that make Bitcoin development more accessible, reliable, and innovative for builders of this ecosystem.

Let's take a closer look at how these developer library initiatives are making an impact.

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