Last July, Bitcoin.com launched a developer platform, Developer.bitcoin.com, which provides BCH developers with free SDKS, cloud servers for deployment and expansion, and a marketplace for testing monetization efforts. The site hopes to help bitcoin Cash change the world by building such a first-class suite of tools to transform developers’ workflows and reduce their development stress.

Recently, the Developer platform has released two new BCH development kits, the Badger SDK and the SLP SDK.

Badger SDK

The Badger SDK is one of the easiest ways to build a BCH application and can be your gateway into the world of Bitcoin Cash application development.

Programmers can use the Badger API to send requests to web site visitors to send A BCH or use the Cash-ID protocol for authentication. Badger wallets have become BCH versions of Ethereum wallets, as wallets can connect to various BCH applications and tokens. For example, it supports SLP tokens and is easily integrated with popular platforms such as Satoshi Dice and Sideshift.

Badger, based on Google and Firefox, processes micropayments and smart assets, enabling decentralised transactions and mining. Badger can also connect to the cash-ID protocol, which allows users to log in to web pages and BCH-based applications and unlock content using their private key. Bitcoin.com also offers the Badger React component, which makes it easier for developers to integrate Bitcoin cash into any project.

SLP SDK

Since the launch of SLP cryptocurrencies, people have been creating all types of tokens based on BCH networks. The SLP development kit provides programmers with a full-featured Javascript framework, which means developers can get everything they need to securely create tokens on the BCH, including publishing, payments, and transactions.

The SLP framework is robust and extensible for the light wallet ecosystem, allowing programmers to apply multi-signed addresses and other Bitcoin scripting features to SLP tokens. It also has a built-in console with REPL, Bitbox, and a Bitcoin Cash JSON RPC API. The SLP SDK is also coupled to REST, so no further setup is required.

Introduction to other major features of the Developer platform

BITBOX SDK

BITBOX is a full-featured javascript framework that provides mnemonics, HD tags, EC Pairs, encryption, address translation, transactions and more utilities.

REST

The Bitcoin Cash JSON RPC, delivered over THE HTTP protocol, includes a fully documented and interactive GUI that developers can use to test their ideas and confirm that their code is making the appropriate API calls.

GUI

Helped create the BIP44 development wallet; 2. Convert between CashadDR/legacy addresses; Create QR codes for WIF, XPub, and XPrivs. 4. Sign and verify messages.

Faucets

BCH test network for developers.

Cloud (Cloud)

Blockchain cloud browser, infrastructure for deploying and scaling applications. An ecosystem of add-ons for data, monitoring, logging, measurement, testing, and more, all built with BITBOX.

market

Help with paid downloads, popular media posts, in-app purchases, coins, and more ways you can make money.

What is the use of the BCH software development kit?

1. Reduce the difficulty of development and accelerate the implementation of relevant applications

Than the underlying protocol for the Internet, traditional block chain technology development to today is still a relatively complex, new emerging things, and based on the technology to build up the encryption of currency for most practitioners engaged in the development of the traditional Internet still seem to be obscure, which is why block chain industry technology developers to the cause of the high wages.

The launch of Developer platform helps to lower the development threshold of blockchain, especially for BCH related applications. It can greatly reduce the development steps, save some unnecessary development time, and accelerate the implementation of related applications.

2. Attract developers and increase community participation

The introduction of practical application models for the Developer platform, such as the rebate Settings for the marketing section, helped attract more developers to BCH.

Previous BCH applications, such as the decentralized social software Memo and Blockpress, the crowdfunding platform Lighthouse and the mobile money transfer software Cointext, were mostly developed by BCH and some supporters of BCH. Since BCH itself is an open source blockchain project, So the main force of relevant application development is also community-based.

However, due to the lack of financial incentives for self-development and the high difficulty of development, it is difficult to see the emergence of some disruptive applications. The launch of the market section of the Developer platform can effectively alleviate this problem.

3. Let more people know the advantages of BCH

The Developer platform only provides a development kit, but there are no restrictions on application development, and the platform also allows individuals to develop for profit. The platform’s creators welcome people to exploit BCH’s strengths for their own benefit, such as crowdsourcing site Taskopus, The money transfer advantage of BCH can help crowdsource settlement easily, but on the other hand, people using Taskopus can learn about BCH and why it is used as a settlement tool.

BCH is good enough as a cryptocurrency, and what it needs most now is to be known and recognized by more people. Therefore, as long as the project is conducive to promotion and popular science, regardless of the motivation of the developer, it is worthy of the support of the BCH community.