diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index c5a7d0ad31..f3f58b41b7 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ BITCOIN_CORE_H = \
   util/moneystr.h \
   util/rbf.h \
   util/readwritefile.h \
+  util/serfloat.h \
   util/settings.h \
   util/sock.h \
   util/spanparsing.h \
@@ -595,6 +596,7 @@ libbitcoin_util_a_SOURCES = \
   util/settings.cpp \
   util/thread.cpp \
   util/threadnames.cpp \
+  util/serfloat.cpp \
   util/spanparsing.cpp \
   util/strencodings.cpp \
   util/string.cpp \
diff --git a/src/util/serfloat.cpp b/src/util/serfloat.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8edca924cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/serfloat.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2021 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#include <util/serfloat.h>
+
+#include <cmath>
+#include <limits>
+
+double DecodeDouble(uint64_t v) noexcept {
+    static constexpr double NANVAL = std::numeric_limits<double>::quiet_NaN();
+    static constexpr double INFVAL = std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();
+    double sign = 1.0;
+    if (v & 0x8000000000000000) {
+        sign = -1.0;
+        v ^= 0x8000000000000000;
+    }
+    // Zero
+    if (v == 0) return copysign(0.0, sign);
+    // Infinity
+    if (v == 0x7ff0000000000000) return copysign(INFVAL, sign);
+    // Other numbers
+    int exp = (v & 0x7FF0000000000000) >> 52;
+    uint64_t man = v & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFF;
+    if (exp == 2047) {
+        // NaN
+        return NANVAL;
+    } else if (exp == 0) {
+        // Subnormal
+        return copysign(ldexp((double)man, -1074), sign);
+    } else {
+        // Normal
+        return copysign(ldexp((double)(man + 0x10000000000000), -1075 + exp), sign);
+    }
+}
+
+uint64_t EncodeDouble(double f) noexcept {
+    int cls = std::fpclassify(f);
+    uint64_t sign = 0;
+    if (copysign(1.0, f) == -1.0) {
+        f = -f;
+        sign = 0x8000000000000000;
+    }
+    // Zero
+    if (cls == FP_ZERO) return sign;
+    // Infinity
+    if (cls == FP_INFINITE) return sign | 0x7ff0000000000000;
+    // NaN
+    if (cls == FP_NAN) return 0x7ff8000000000000;
+    // Other numbers
+    int exp;
+    uint64_t man = std::round(std::frexp(f, &exp) * 9007199254740992.0);
+    if (exp < -1021) {
+        // Too small to represent, encode 0
+        if (exp < -1084) return sign;
+        // Subnormal numbers
+        return sign | (man >> (-1021 - exp));
+    } else {
+        // Too big to represent, encode infinity
+        if (exp > 1024) return sign | 0x7ff0000000000000;
+        // Normal numbers
+        return sign | (((uint64_t)(1022 + exp)) << 52) | (man & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFF);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/util/serfloat.h b/src/util/serfloat.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4d912b0176
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/serfloat.h
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2021 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#ifndef BITCOIN_UTIL_SERFLOAT_H
+#define BITCOIN_UTIL_SERFLOAT_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/* Encode a double using the IEEE 754 binary64 format. All NaNs are encoded as x86/ARM's
+ * positive quiet NaN with payload 0. */
+uint64_t EncodeDouble(double f) noexcept;
+/* Reverse operation of DecodeDouble. DecodeDouble(EncodeDouble(f))==f unless isnan(f). */
+double DecodeDouble(uint64_t v) noexcept;
+
+#endif // BITCOIN_UTIL_SERFLOAT_H