Introduction¶

The Base SDK for Dash is a collection of packages that enable applications to parse, construct and interact with the Dash blockchain. This is achieved by leveraging the rust-bitcoin ecosystem to provide a framework that builds upon existing, familiar APIs and contract expectations.

To achieve this, state-independent portions of the consensus engine have been split into composable packages that can be imported as needed.

Crate	Description	Version
dash-num	Hash blobs, 256-bit arithmetic, compact target encoding
dash-p2p-core	P2P message types and wire format	Unreleased.
dash-params	Chain parameters for `mainnet`, `testnet3`, and `regtest`	Unreleased.
dash-pkc	BLS (legacy + IETF) and secp256k1 operations
dash-pow	Proof of work scheme
dash-primitives	Blocks, transactions, payloads, governance objects	Unreleased.
dash-script	Script opcodes, classification, and address derivation	Unreleased.
dash-types	Shared byte and integer newtypes, serde helpers

System Requirements¶

Some crates rely on instruction set extensions that set hardware minimums for the architectures listed below. Builds for these architectures fail unless the build flags for them are defined or the portable feature is enabled. Builds for other architectures run without hardware acceleration.

(x86_64) Intel Broadwell, AMD Zen, or newer with AES-NI and ADX enabled.
(AArch64) ARMv8-A or newer with cryptographic extensions.
(WebAssembly) Wasm 2.0-capable runtime with support for vector instructions.

Using non-portable builds on hosts that do not meet the above requirements will likely result in abrupt termination due to illegal instructions (SIGILL).

Is the SDK a full node?¶

The Base SDK is not a full node implementation nor does it intend to be. no_std + alloc restricts I/O and networking making it better suited for resource-constrained, sandboxed or otherwise limited environments. The public contract reflects this, restricted to only stateless or relatively context-independent portions of the overall consensus engine.

For a more batteries-included solution, consider rust-dashcore or the C++ reference implementation, Dash Core over RPC, REST or ZMQ.