Awesome BitShares Blockchain 
A curated list of awesome BitShares resources for users and developers.
The BitShares Blockchain is an industrial-grade decentralized platform built for high-performance financial smart contracts. It represents the first decentralized autonomous community that lets its core token holder decide on its future direction and products. In contrast to other smart contracting platform, its strict focus on security and reliabilty has allowed the BitShares Blockchain to become the largest host of decentralized exchanges.
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Contents
- Awesome BitShares Blockchain
- Utilities
- Libraries
- Projects Using the BitShares Blockchain
- Other Blockchains in the BitShares Family
Awesome BitShares Blockchain
A curated list of resources around the BitShares Blockchain and its ecosystem.
Want to contribute to the list? Read the contributors guide!
Websites
- Bitshares.github.io - Main website.
- BitShares.build - Main website backup.
- BitSharesGroup.org - BitShares Group is an independent organization acting in the best interests of the BitShares Blockchain.
Documentation
- BitShares.Github.io/docs - New documentation site, work in progress.
- How.BitShares.works - The primary documentation, maintained by the community, hosted by github.
- BitShares Build Docs - Light prompt help pages.
- Dev.BitShares.works Docs - The BitShares Developers Portal.
- BitShares-Core Wiki - Documentation about the core software development and integration.
- BitShares-Core Doxygen Documentation - Documentation generated from BitShares-Core code base.
- BitShares-UI Wiki - Guidelines about how to integrate or contribute to the reference wallet project.
- BitShares-UI Help - Guidelines about how to use the reference wallet software.
- BitShares NFT Specification - NFT documentation
- docs.bitshares.eu - The original, worker funded documentation site. Now redirects to how.bitshares.works. The old documentation is here.
- 中文文档 - Documentation in Chinese, maintained by the Chinese community.
Community
- BitSharesTalk Forum - The original board of discussion for BitShares (ever since 2013).
- Hive#bitshares - #bitshares tagged posts on the Hive blockchain.
- Hive: Bitshares community - Community dedicated for Bitshares on the Hive blockchain.
- Twitter@BitSharesGroup - Content managed by BitSharesGroup.org owner.
- Twitter@artcasa_fine - Twitter account for the Bitshares Artcasa NFT Gallery.
- Twitter@nftea_gallery - Twitter account for the Bitshares NFTEA NFT Gallery.
- Twitter#BitShares - #BitShares tagged on Twitter.
- Twitter#bitshares - #bitshares tagged on Twitter.
- YouTube@BitSharesBlockchain
- Reddit#bitshares - Reddit sub-reddit for BitShares.
- Whaleshares#bitshares - #bitshares tagged posts on the WHALESHARES blockchain.
- Telegram:
- BitShares Group - Group for general discussions.
- BitShares DAC - Another group for general discussions.
- BitShares 比特股中文社区 - Group for Chinese speaking people.
- BitShares Development - For developers.
- BitShares Wallet - Focus on BitShares reference wallet.
- BitShares Wallet Help - Web-based wallet & desktop wallet support.
- BitShares Mobile - Focus on BitShares mobile app.
- BitShares News - BitShares News channel.
- BitShares Investors - For developers.
- BitShares Traders - Focus on Trading.
- BitShares Node Admins - Provides server admins & interested parties with tech support.
- BitShares NFTs - NFT (Non-fungible tokens) discussions.
- BitShares Liquidity Pools - Liquidity Pools and Automated-market making on BitShares blockchain.
- PyBitShares - Focus on python-bitshares development.
- PoolTool - Dicussions about PoolTool.
- BeetApp - Focus on beetapp development.
- DEXBot - Focus on DEXBot development.
- Committee - (invite only) For committee members.
- Witnesses - (invite only) For block producers.
- Discord - BitShares
- WeChat Groups - Please ask for invitations in the Chinese Telegram group https://t.me/BitSharesDEXcn
News
Conferences
- Web3 Berlin 2023 - June 10-11, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
- Decentralized 2019 - BitShares as Event Partner - In Athens, Greece.
- Bitfest 2018 - in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Graphene DevCon 2018 - in Shanghai, China.
Utilities
Downloads
- BitShares-Core - full node and command line tools
- BitShares-UI - desktop light wallet
- BitShares Mobile App - iOS and Android
- Media Kit - Logos, banners and etc
Blockchain API
Given that many businesses and community members operate their own API endpoints, duplicating that list here would be unecessary efforts. Hence, we here link to the list of nodes as used in the reference wallet on wallet.bitshares.org.
Extended APIs
There are some extended APIs provided by the community.
- https://api.bitshares.ws/docs
- https://api.bitshares.build/api-docs
- https://market-api-v2.xbts.io
- https://market-api-v1.xbts.io
- https://api.testnet.bitshares.ws/docs - for the public testnet
Kibana and ElasticSearch Endpoints
Kibana and ElasticSearch endpoints can be used to query blockchain data and perform visualizations.
- kibana.bitshares.eu Down for maintenance.
- kibana.bts.mobi (and es.bts.mobi for raw data).
Opensource Wallets
- BitShares-UI (Reference Wallet) - reference web wallet (ReactJS).
- BitShares Mobile (BTS++) - native Android/iOS app.
- BiTSy - native Android wallet with Merchants/Tellers map, in 104 languages.
- Bitshares Beet - A fully implemented multi-crypto wallet coded in vue3.
- BeetEOS - A Beet wallet fork with additional chains and experimental features.
- Citadel Desktop Wallet - desktop wallet written in Python
- EVRAZ Wallet - Android app
- Ledger App - Bitshares Wallet App for Ledger Nano S
- Oases - Android app.
- Community UI - A partially implemented Bitshares web wallet coded with Vue2.
- Bitshares DEX Astro UI - A Bitshares DEX user interface implemented in React and Astro.
Hosted Wallets
Warning: Since these are hosted wallets, they may have access to your private account credentials and thus, your funds may be at risk. Please do your own research before using them.
Hosted Mainnet Wallets
- wallet.bitshares.org - BitShares.org hosted reference wallet, lastest release.
- staging.bitshares.org - BitShares.org hosted reference wallet, latest release candidate.
- develop.bitshares.org - BitShares.org hosted reference wallet, latest in-development version.
- bts.exchange - BitSharesGroup.org hosted reference wallet.
- dev.bts.mobi and pr.bts.mobi - Random in-development versions of bitshares-ui, publicly hosted on Github Pages (dev, pr), published by Github Actions from a fork of bitshares-ui
- m.magicw.net - Web version of the MagicWallet Android/iOS app.
- app.xbts.io - New DeFi wallet with AMM liquidity pools
- SwapBTS.com - Lightweight web wallet with many features, for mobile use
- BTWTY.com - New reference wallet hosted by the Bit20 group.
- BEOS BTS Wallet
- Check the Exchanges running on the BitShares blockchain too.
Hosted Testnet Wallets
- test.xbts.io
- wallet.bitshares.org - To use with Testnet, connect to a testnet API node in settings
- testnet.bitshares.org - down for maintenance.
Hardware Wallets
Blockchain Explorers
- built-in explorer - open source reference wallet built-in explorer.
- blocksights.info - supports both Mainnet and the public testnet. The back end is closed source, the front end is open source. It is an improved version of the open-source BitShares blockchain explorer open-explorer.
- bitsharescan.info - BitShares Blockchain explorer.
- bitshares.network - BitShares network information.
Libraries
Libraries capable of communicating with the BitShares blockchain.
C++ Libraries
- bitshares-core - reference code base that operates the blockchain.
Go Libraries
- bitshares-go - BitShares golang client
- go-bitshares - API for BitShares - supports websocket RPC & Wallet functions
Java Libraries
- graphenej - Graphene Java lib for mobile app Developers.
- bitshares-kit
https:``//github.com/huskcasaca/bitshares-kit- A Kotlin/JVM based library for BitShares blockchain. Code is being refactored. An older forked version is here.
JavaScript Libraries
- bitsharesjs - used by reference wallet.
- bitsharesjs-ws - used by reference wallet.
- btsdex - alternative javascript library.
- vuex-bitshares - used by Trusty/Community UI.
- BTS Buntime - A fork of bitsharesjs for BunJS
Python Libraries
- python-bitshares - full featured python library.
- Uptick - command line tool.
- bitshares-p2p - Pocking around p2p protocol of BitShares network.
- BitShares Explorer REST API - API for the open-source BitShares blockchain explorer open-explorer
- BitShares HUG REST API - A HUG REST API for the BitShares network
PHP Libraries
- bitshares-php - A php library, for reading bitshares blockchain
Tools and Scripts
- DEXBot - Market Maker bot
- extinction-event - bitsharesQUANT Distributed Exchange Algo Trading Framework
- bitshares-scripts - a set of python scripts.
- bitshares-tradehistory-analyzer - a set of scripts for exporting and analyzing trading history.
- StakeMachine - Trading Bot Infrastructure for the BitShares Decentralized Exchange (DEX).
- Telegram notifier - a simple bitshares telegram notifier
- bts-notifier - Telegram bot for sending BitShares account notifications
- PoolTool - A simple GUI tool to help anyone use Liquidity Pools on the BitShares blockchain.
- Bitshares_NFT_Issuance_Tool - An open source GUI to help users issue new NFTs on the Bitshares blockchain.
- NFT_Viewer - An open source GUI to view NFTs on the Bitshares blockchain.
- Airdrop tool - An open source GUI for fetching tickets, analyzing ticket leaderboards, calculating airdrop vectors and performing airdrops.
- BTS-QRCodes - QR code generation scripts for Bitshares blockchain operations.
- BEET-JS - A JS library for 3rd party apps to interact with the Bitshares BEET multiwallet.
- BEET-Deeplinks - A module for constructing Bitshares BEET deeplinks.
- Bitshares Next.JS NFT Gallery - open source code for new galleries.
- Bit20s NFT Creator Tool - open source python NFT creation tool.
- Bit20s Pool Tool - open source python based Bitshares liquidity pool tool.
- Beet API - An ElysiaJS API used by the Bitshares DEX Astro UI.
Projects Using the BitShares Blockchain
Warning: Being listed here is not endorsement nor does it provide any credibility to these projects. Even though the authors of this list have high quality standards, limited resources prevent them from keeping this list up-to-date with respect to their credibility. Use this list at your own risk and do your own research!
Exchanges
- XBTS
- ioBanker
- BTWTY GATEWAY - Bit20 community ran
- DelionDEX
- EVRAZ
- PirateCash - PirateCash DEX
- GDEX (no dedicated website, deposits and withdrawals are processed manually)
- Citadel
https``://citadel.lioutdated
Bridges
Games
NFT
- BitShares NFT Specification - NFT documentation
- ArtCASA Gallery
- NFTEA Gallery
- Alguien's NFT gallery
Services
- PalmPay - A chain-agnostic Point Of Sale system, using Bitshares DEx, in 104 languages.
- EVRAZ - Global System of Electronic Payments on BitShares
- CryptoNinjaPay (Android/iOS)
- Quintric
- Apptrade - A profit sharing marketplace, described as “the stock market for apps”, that runs on the BitShares blockchain.
- Compumatrix - Business process outsourcing and home-based employment.
- Moneda Par - A non-profit based in Argentina that allows the exchange of goods and services through mutual loans.
Other Blockchains in the BitShares Family
BitShares being the first that is build on the Graphene or graphene-like base system, other blockchains have been deployed that make use of the very same foundations:
- EOS
- Hive
- Peerplays
- BEOS
- Crypviser
- Steem
- Whaleshares
- Yoyow
- TUSC
- CWD.GLOBAL (codebase)
- Cybex
- Revolution-Populi (codebase)
- Scorum
- Serey
- VIT
License
To the extent possible under law, Dr.-Ing. Fabian Schuh has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.