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WBIPs are a set of specifications for web apps and client providers to facilitate communication with Bitcoin, Lightning wallets, and more.
It provides a programmatic, permissioned interface for letting web apps send or receive payments and much more.
WBIPs are inspired by WebBTC and similar ideas. They provide a a common convention in the Bitcoin web application ecosystem is for key management software ("wallets") to expose their API via a JavaScript object in the web page. This object is called the common web wallet interface.
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Historically, Provider implementations have exhibited conflicting interfaces and behaviors between wallets. This working group formalizes an Bitcoin extension API to promote wallet interoperability. The API is designed to be minimal, event-driven, and agnostic of transport and RPC protocols. Its functionality is easily extended by defining new RPC methods and message event types.