---
id: bittensor-wallet
version: "4.1.1"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# bittensor-wallet

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 331.4K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Bittensor Wallet is a Python SDK that wraps a Rust-based wallet implementation for managing cryptographic keys on the Bittensor network. It allows you to create wallets, generate coldkeys and hotkeys, and manage on-disk keyfiles in a standardized format. The package is built as compiled wheels for multiple Python versions and platforms, with no external runtime dependencies.

However, this package is superseded. Development has moved to the main bittensor package (version 11 and later), where wallet functionality is now available as bittensor.wallet. The repository is archived and no longer maintained. Existing wallets created with bittensor-wallet remain compatible and can be imported into the newer bittensor package, but new projects should install bittensor instead. Releases from this repository will remain available on PyPI but will receive no further updates.

Use it for:

- Manage Bittensor network credentials in standalone Python applications that do not require the full bittensor SDK.
- Migrate or recover existing Bittensor wallets created with earlier versions of the wallet SDK.
- Access wallet key generation and storage for legacy systems still using bittensor-wallet 4.x.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Manages cryptographic keys and wallets for the Bittensor network, providing Python bindings to a Rust-based wallet implementation for creating and accessing blockchain credentials.

No. This package is abandoned and superseded by bittensor.wallet (part of the bittensor package). Existing wallets remain compatible, but new projects should install bittensor instead. The repository is archived, no further maintenance or features will be released, and the package receives no security updates. Install only if you are maintaining legacy code that explicitly depends on bittensor-wallet.

## Install

pip install bittensor-wallet
uv add bittensor-wallet
poetry add bittensor-wallet

## Installing bittensor-wallet

Before you install: Medium install friction due to compiled wheels for multiple Python versions and architectures. The package is now abandoned—the repository is archived and no longer maintained. New projects should use the bittensor package instead, where wallet functionality ships as bittensor.wallet.

License in practice: Licensed under MIT (permissive), allowing free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install bittensor-wallet

from bittensor_wallet import Wallet

wallet = Wallet()
wallet.create()

Requires Python 3.10 or later. Existing wallets created with this package remain compatible, but new projects should migrate to the bittensor package.

Verify before relying:

- Whether existing bittensor-wallet installations can be safely migrated to bittensor.wallet without manual key conversion steps beyond what the description states.
- Whether the Rust-based implementation has any system-level dependencies beyond what the wheel distributions provide.
- Performance characteristics or limitations compared to the current bittensor.wallet implementation.

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: medium
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 331.4K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

bittensor wallet management, cryptocurrency key storage, blockchain wallet python, bittensor key generation, substrate wallet sdk, blockchain, deprecated, cryptography

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