@kaleidorg/wdk-wallet-liquid

WDK wallet adapter for the Liquid network. Wraps an in-process LWK (Liquid Wallet Kit) wallet in the WDK account model — no external daemon required.

It is the wallet foundation for KaleidoSwap's native Liquid DEX (L-BTC ↔ USDt-Liquid swaps).

Install

npm install @kaleidorg/wdk-wallet-liquid @tetherto/wdk-wallet

@tetherto/wdk-wallet is a peer dependency.

LWK binding (Node / browser / React Native)

The package transparently selects the right LWK build via the package imports map (#lwk):

Environment	Binding	Notes
Node / Bare (default)	lwk_node	wasm-bindgen --target nodejs; self-instantiates, no flags needed.
Browser (browser)	lwk_wasm	wasm-bindgen --target bundler; optional peer dependency.
React Native (react-native)	lwk-rn	Blockstream's UniFFI→JSI native module — runs on Hermes, no WASM. Optional peer.

lwk_node ships as a regular dependency, so Node usage is zero-config.

For browser/bundler usage (e.g. a Chrome MV3 extension service worker), install lwk_wasm explicitly and ensure your bundler can import WebAssembly as an ES module:

npm install lwk_wasm

• Vite: add vite-plugin-wasm and vite-plugin-top-level-await.
• webpack 5: enable experiments.asyncWebAssembly.

For React Native (Hermes has no WebAssembly engine), install the native binding and let Metro pick the react-native condition:

npm install lwk-rn   # requires a config-plugin / pod + gradle native build

Ensure your Metro config resolves the react-native export condition (resolver.unstable_conditionNames = ['react-native', 'require', 'import']). The lwk-rn Signer lacks signMessage() / getMasterXpub(); LiquidAccount feature-detects those (message signing throws on RN; keyPair falls back to the key-origin fingerprint), so the core wallet works unchanged.

There is no async init step — the bundler instantiates the WASM during module load, so the API is identical to the Node path. (The lwk_wasm bundle is ~10 MB; mind cold-start in constrained contexts.)

Architecture

Liquid keys live in-process. LWK provides a watch-only Confidential Transaction (CT) descriptor wallet (Wollet) plus a software Signer derived from a BIP-39 mnemonic. Esplora is the chain backend used for scanning and broadcasting.

The SLIP-77 CT descriptor covers every address, so there is a single logical account — getAccount(index) always returns the same LiquidAccount.

Usage

import LiquidWalletManager from '@kaleidorg/wdk-wallet-liquid'

const wallet = new LiquidWalletManager(mnemonic, { network: 'testnet' })
const account = await wallet.getAccount()

await account.getAddress()                 // next CT receive address
await account.getBalance()                 // L-BTC balance (satoshis, bigint)
await account.getTokenBalance(assetId)      // any Liquid asset balance

await account.transfer({ recipient, amount, feeRate })
await account.sendAsset({ assetId, recipient, amount, feeRate })

await account.listAssets()
await account.listUnspents()
await account.listTransactions()

wallet.dispose()

Config

Option	Default	Description
network	'testnet'	'mainnet', 'testnet' or 'regtest'.
esploraUrl	network default	Esplora API base URL.
mnemonic	—	Required only when the seed is passed as bytes.

Test

npm test

Offline operations (key derivation, address generation, message signing) are exercised against the real lwk_node WASM; balance and transfer paths require a funded testnet wallet and are verified manually.

License

Apache-2.0