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Go Stellar SDK

Go Stellar SDK is an Apache-2.0 open-source Go software development kit for applications that integrate with the Stellar network. It provides transaction and operation builders, Horizon and Stellar RPC clients, raw-ledger ingestion libraries, reusable ETL-style processors, and XDR and StrKey encoding utilities.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when a Go application needs direct Stellar transaction-building, network API clients, ledger-data ingestion or reusable data-processing components.

Who it is for

  • Go developers building Stellar-integrated applications.
  • Teams creating transaction-processing backends or self-hosted services.
  • Developers building ledger-ingestion and ETL pipelines for Stellar data.

Documented uses

  • Construct Stellar transactions and operations.
  • Query or submit transactions through Horizon or Stellar RPC.
  • Parse raw ledger data from Captive Core, Galexie Data Lake or RPC.
  • Process Stellar data with reusable abstractions and ETL-style processors.
  • Use Stellar network primitives and encoding helpers in Go applications.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The repository is public, active and licensed under Apache-2.0. The documented installation method uses Go modules and the repository package path.

  • Choose the transaction builder when the application must create Stellar transactions and operations.
  • Use the Horizon client or RPC client according to the Stellar service the application needs to query or submit through; endpoint and authentication configuration are not specified here.
  • Choose the Ingest SDK when raw ledger data comes from Captive Core, Galexie Data Lake or RPC.
  • Use the processors library for reusable data abstractions and ETL-style processing.
  • Horizon, Galexie and Friendbot services are maintained in separate repositories, so this SDK is not their server or exporter implementation.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Add Go Stellar SDK to a Go project

Add the SDK dependency to an existing Go project.

Before you start

  • An existing Go project.
  • Go module support.

Steps

  1. Run the command below inside the Go project.

    Documented command
    go get github.com/stellar/go-stellar-sdk@latest

  2. Import the package or packages needed for transaction building, Horizon, RPC, ingestion, processors, XDR or StrKey work.

Expected outcome

The SDK is added as a dependency and its documented packages are available for application development.

Guide limitations

  • This setup procedure does not document endpoint configuration, authentication, deployment or a successful transaction submission.
  • The README states that packages are tested against the two most recent major Go versions, but does not specify other compatibility details.
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