ofek/coincurve

Safest and fastest Python library for secp256k1 elliptic curve operations

Python

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This library provides well-tested Python bindings for libsecp256k1, the heavily optimized C library used by Bitcoin Core for operations on the elliptic curve secp256k1.

Feel free to read the documentation!

Users

and many more!

License

coincurve is distributed under the terms of any of the following licenses:

bitcoin

cryptocurrency

ecdh

ecdsa

elliptic-curves

ethereum

python

schnorr

secp256k1

Project health

Overall

4.2/10

Maintained

1/10

Code review

5/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

PyPI

coincurve

Latest release

21.0.0 · Mar 8, 2025

Releases this year

Significant stargazers

Jürgen Hötzel

138 followers · starred Oct 2024

callebtc

1,142 followers · starred Nov 2024

Jaka Hudoklin

184 followers · starred Sep 2020

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ofek/coincurve

Safest and fastest Python library for secp256k1 elliptic curve operations

Python

185

526 commits

updated Aug 12, 2026

ofek.dev/coincurve

See the code

README

coincurve


CI/CD
Docs
Package
Meta

This library provides well-tested Python bindings for libsecp256k1, the heavily optimized C library used by Bitcoin Core for operations on the elliptic curve secp256k1.

Feel free to read the documentation!

Users

and many more!

License

coincurve is distributed under the terms of any of the following licenses:

bitcoin

cryptocurrency

ecdh

ecdsa

elliptic-curves

ethereum

python

schnorr

secp256k1

Project health

Overall

4.2/10

Maintained

1/10

Code review

5/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

PyPI

coincurve

Latest release

21.0.0 · Mar 8, 2025

Releases this year

Significant stargazers

Jürgen Hötzel

138 followers · starred Oct 2024

callebtc

1,142 followers · starred Nov 2024

Jaka Hudoklin

184 followers · starred Sep 2020

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