Nimiq XPub

A simple class to derive BTC and ETH extended public keys and addresses without GMP. Only the BCMath extension is required (but GMP is still used for faster calculations when available).

Supports the following formats:

Type	Mainnet	Testnet
BIP44 (standard)	xpub	tpub
BIP49 (nested segwit)	ypub	upub
BIP84 (native segwit)	zpub	vpub

Installation

The Nimiq XPub package is availabe via the Packagist package registry and can be installed with Composer:

composer require nimiq/xpub

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.1
• BCMath or GMP extension

Usage

# PSR-4 autoloading with composer
use Nimiq\XPub;

# Create an XPub class instance from an xpub/tpub/ypub/upub/zpub/vpub string.
$xpub = XPub::fromString( 'xpub...' ); // => BIP44 Original
$xpub = XPub::fromString( 'ypub...' ); // => BIP49 Nested SegWit
$xpub = XPub::fromString( 'zpub...' ); // => BIP84 Native SegWit

# You can also specify the address scheme to override auto-detection.
$xpub = XPub::fromString( 'xpub...', XPub::BIP84 );
$xpub = XPub::fromString( 'xpub...', XPub::BIP49 );
$xpub = XPub::fromString( 'zpub...', XPub::BIP44 );

# Derive a child extended public key from it.
$xpub_i = $xpub->derive( $i );
# You can also pass an array to derive a path.
$xpub_i_k = $xpub->derive( [$i, $k]);

# An XPub can be serialized back into a string.
# Pass $asHex = true to serialize into a HEX string, base58 is the default.
$xpub_string = $xpub_i->toString( $asHex = false );

# An XPub can be converted into an address.
# Pass $coin = 'eth' to convert into an ETH address.
#
# By default, xpubs are converted into standard addresses,
# ypubs are converted into nested segwit addresses,
# and zpubs are converted into native segwit addresses.
$address = $xpub_i->toAddress( $coin = 'btc' );

See the tests for further example usage.

Conversion

You can use this library to convert between xpub formats, for example:

// Parse any extended public key string
$xpub = XPub::fromString( 'xpub...' );

// Change the version on the instance
$xpub->version = 'zpub'; // Use any of the supported formats from the table at the top of the README

// Stringify to the target format
$zpub = $xpub->toString(); // 'zpub...'

Helpers

The XPub class also exposes two common hashing methods:

# Get a hash160
$hashed_hex = XPub::hash160( $input_hex );

# Get a double sha256
$hashed_hex = XPub::doubleSha256( $input_hex );

Development

Testing

To execute the test suite run:

composer run-script test
# or
php test/test.php