Overview
Zecwallet lightwalletd is a fork of lightwalletd from the ECC.
It is a backend service that provides a bandwidth-efficient interface to the Zcash blockchain for the Zecwallet light wallet.
Changes from upstream lightwalletd
This version of zeclite lightwalletd extends lightwalletd and:
- Adds support for transparent addresses
- Adds several new RPC calls for lightclients
- Lots of perf improvements
- Replaces SQLite with in-memory cache for Compact Blocks
- Replace local Txstore, delegating Tx lookups to Zcashd
- Remove the need for a separate ingestor
Running your own zeclite lightwalletd
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First, install Go >= 1.11.
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You need to run a zcash full node with the following options in zcash.conf
server=1
testnet=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=password
rpcbind=127.0.0.1
rpcport=18232
experimentalfeatures=1
txindex=1
insightexplorer=1
- Run the frontend:
go run cmd/server/main.go -bind-addr 127.0.0.1:9067 -conf-file ~/.zcash/zcash.conf
- Point the
zecwallet-clito this server
./zeclite-cli --server 127.0.0.1:9067