How awesome is Bitshares? December 2022 Awesome Bitshares update!

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Awesome BitShares Blockchain - December 2022 edition

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.

Contributions welcome. Comment below to influence the future of awesome-bitshares!

Contents

• Awesome BitShares Blockchain
  • Websites
  • Documentation
  • Community
  • News
  • Conferences
• Utilities
  • Downloads
  • Blockchain API
  • Extended APIs
  • Kibana and ElasticSearch Endpoints
  • Opensource Wallets
  • Hosted Wallets
  • Hardware Wallets
  • Blockchain Explorers
• Libraries
  • C++ Libraries
  • Go Libraries
  • Java Libraries
  • JavaScript Libraries
  • Python Libraries
  • Tools and Scripts
• Projects Using the BitShares Blockchain
  • Exchanges
  • Bridges
  • Games
  • NFT
  • Services
• Other Blockchains in the BitShares Family

Awesome BitShares Blockchain

A curated list of resources around the BitShares Blockchain and its
ecosystem.

Websites

• Bitshares.github.io - The new main website
• BitShares.build - Another site maintained by the community
• BitSharesGroup.org - BitShares Group is an independent organization acting in the best interests of the BitShares Blockchain.

Documentation

• How.BitShares.works / docs.bitshares.org - The primary documentation, maintained by the community, hosted by github.
• 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 Build Docs - Light prompt help pages
• 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.
• Whaleshares#bitshares - #bitshares tagged posts on the WHALESHARES 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.
• Reddit#bitshares - Reddit sub-reddit for BitShares.
• Telegram:
  • BitShares DAC - General discussions.
  • BitShares Group - Another group for general discussions.
  • BitShares News - BitShares News channel
  • BitShares Mobile - Focus on BitShares mobile app.
  • BitShares Development - For developers.
  • 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.
  • BitShares Traders - Focus on Trading.
  • BitShares Wallet Help - Web-based wallet & desktop wallet support.
  • 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

News

• Bitshares hive community feed

Conferences

• 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.

• List of Blockchain API endpoints

Extended APIs

There are some extended APIs provided by the community.

• https://api.bitshares.ws/docs
• https://api.bitshares.build/api-docs
• https://cryptofresh.com/api/docs
• https://xbts.io/cmc-api
• 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.
• Beet - A fully implemented multi-crypto wallet coded in vue3.
• 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.

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
• testnet.bitshares.org - down for maintenance.

Hardware Wallets

• Ledger Nano S
• Keybox

Blockchain Explorers

• built-in explorer - open source
• BTS.ai - closed source.
• cryptofresh.com - closed source, operational since 2015.
• 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.

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.

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 - A GUI to help users issue new NFTs on the Bitshares blockchain.
• NFT_Viewer - A GUI to view NFTs on the Bitshares blockchain.
• 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.

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
• GDEX (no dedicated website, deposits and withdrawals are processed manually)
• Citadel https``://citadel.li outdated
• PirateCash - PirateCash DEX
• AEX - A centralized exchange with its exchange token (GAT) and stable coins (CNC) on BitShares

Bridges

• BlockTrades
• Exolix
• GoDex
• SimpleSwap
• StealthEx
• SwapSpace
• ioxbank

Games

• SmartHoldem

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

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I have created an associated github pull request to reflect december's changes!

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Which of the above services, softwares and explorers interest you the most? Have you found something new from this list today? Comment below!

Do be careful when clicking some of the links to other blockchain projects, I've only used a subset of them.