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Cardano Client Bindings

Getting Started

Pick your language, install the package, and you’re building transactions offline in minutes — the native library comes bundled or is fetched automatically; there is nothing else to install and no JVM.

Install

Section titled “Install”

JavaScript (Bun)

Section titled “JavaScript (Bun)”
Terminal window
bun add @bloxbean/cardano-client-lib

Requires Bun 1.0+ — Node.js is not supported. The platform-specific native library arrives via optionalDependencies.

Go

Section titled “Go”
Terminal window
go get github.com/bloxbean/cardano-client-bindings/wrappers/go

Go 1.21+. Pure Go (no cgo, no C toolchain): the module loads libccl with purego and downloads it once on first use (then cached). Set CCL_LIB_PATH to use a local build instead.

Rust

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[dependencies]
ccl = { package = "cardano-client-lib", version = "0.1" }

Rust 1.70+. build.rs fetches the matching native library at first build. Add features = ["providers"] for the HTTP provider/evaluator helpers.

Python

Section titled “Python”
Terminal window
pip install cardano-client-lib

Python 3.8+. Platform wheels bundle the native library; the only dependency is pyyaml.

First program

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Create an account and build a payment, fully offline (Python shown — the other guides have the same example idiomatically):

from ccl import CclLib, Network


with CclLib() as lib:
    account = lib.account.create(Network.TESTNET)
    print(account["base_address"])   # addr_test1...


    yaml = f"""
    version: 1.0
    transaction:
      - tx:
          from: {account["base_address"]}
          intents:
            - type: payment
              address: addr_test1qz...
              amounts:
                - unit: lovelace
                  quantity: "5000000"
    """
    # Supply UTXOs + protocol params yourself, or use a provider (see below)
    result = lib.quicktx.build(yaml, utxos, protocol_params)
    signed = lib.account.sign_tx(account["mnemonic"], result["tx_cbor"], Network.TESTNET)
    # Submit `signed` with any HTTP client — the library never submits

The transaction is described as TxPlan YAML; the library selects UTXOs, calculates the fee, and handles change. For fetching UTXOs and protocol parameters conveniently, each wrapper ships optional providers (Yaci DevKit, Blockfrost) — see the per-language Providers & Evaluators pages.

Next steps

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