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A Zcash-Devtool Primer

This page documents a full walkthrough of how to set up and use the zcash-devtool tooling. It is intended to serve as a guide for how to get set up and how to add your own functionality to the tool.

Development Environment

In order to work with zcash-devtool, the first thing you will need is a Rust development environment. If you don't already have Rust installed, follow the directions at https://rustup.rs/ to get a Rust toolchain installed.

You'll also need the source code, as there is no binary distribution of zcash-devtool. It is built by developers, for developers, for testing and development of new Zcash functionality; DO NOT commit significant funds to the management of the zcash-devtool embedded wallet.

Obtain the source code by cloning the github repository:

λ git clone https://github.com/zcash/zcash-devtool

First Steps

Now we're ready to take our first look at the capabilities that zcash-devtool provides. We will build and run the tool using cargo run.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- --help

This results in output like the following:

Usage: zcash-devtool [COMMAND]

Commands:
  inspect  Inspect Zcash-related data
  wallet   Manipulate a local wallet backed by `zcash_client_sqlite`
  pczt     Send funds using PCZTs
  help     Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

You can get additional information about a given command:

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet --help

Wallet Initialization

For the purposes of this demo, we're going to set up a testnet wallet. We're going to create the wallet in a ../dev-wallet directory; this is intentionally outside of the root of the git repository, just so that we don't accidentally end up committing wallet data to the repository when we go to commit code changes. In addition to the wallet databases and configuration, the initialization process will generate an age key file at ../dev-wallet/dev-key.txt; this key will be used to encrypt the wallet's mnemonic seed. We'll also use the testnet.zec.rocks server for this setup.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet -w ../dev-wallet init --name "ZDevTest" \
  -i ../dev-wallet/dev-key.txt -n test -s zecrocks

If we look at the ./../dev-wallet directory now, we can see that a number of files and directories have been created:

λ ll ../dev-wallet/
total 352
-rw-r--r-- 1 ... ...  16384 Mar  3 17:48 blockmeta.sqlite
drwxrwxr-x 2 ... ...   4096 Mar  3 17:48 blocks/
-rw-r--r-- 1 ... ... 323584 Mar  3 17:48 data.sqlite
-rw------- 1 ... ...    189 Mar  3 16:59 dev-key.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ... ...    786 Mar  3 17:48 keys.toml
drwxrwxr-x 4 ... ...   4096 Mar  3 17:43 tor/

A look in the keys.toml file will show us our (encrypted) key, along with basic wallet metadata:

λ cat ../dev-wallet/keys.toml
mnemonic = """
-----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
<...>
-----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
"""
network = "test"
birthday = 3274265

Receiving Payments

In order to receive a payment, we'll need an address:

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet -w ../dev-wallet list-addresses

We can use another testnet wallet to send some payments to the wallet, or mine coins to fund it. If you're running a zcashd testnet node, it's easy to enable mining by adding the following configuration to your ~/.zcash/zcash.conf file.

gen=1
equihashsolver=tromp
mineraddress=YOUR_ADDRESS_HERE

Now, in order to detect those funds, we need to scan the chain:

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet -w ../dev-wallet sync -s zecrocks

Having scanned the chain, we can now check the balance

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet -w ../dev-wallet balance

You can explore more of the wallet commands available using:

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet --help

PCZT Support

It's possible to use zcash-devtool as a "simulated hardware wallet" via use of the pczt suite of commands. These commands provide reference implementations for PCZT creation, proving, signing, combining, inspection, and more.

This section will simulate an interaction between an online wallet that scans the chain with a viewing key and an offline wallet that holds the signing keys. For the purpose of this simulation, the ../dev-wallet wallet we've created will take on the role of our hardware device.

First, we're going to set up our "online wallet" by exporting a viewing key from the development wallet, and using it to initialize a new view-only wallet.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet -w ../dev-wallet/ list-accounts

That produces output like the following:

Account ef4cde11-ac2b-4ac3-becf-3df518ee2c97
     Name: ZDevTest
     UIVK: <...>
     UFVK: <dev_ufvk>
     Source: Derived { derivation: Zip32Derivation { seed_fingerprint: SeedFingerprint(<dev_seed_fp>), account_index: AccountId(0) }, key_source: None }

Using the UFVK value provided there, we can initialize a new view-only wallet that we'll use as the online device in this exchange. After initializing it, we'll also sync that wallet. It is important to also include the seed fingerprint and HD account index, because we will need those to make it easy for the signing wallet to choose the correct key.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet -w ../view-wallet/ init-fvk \
    --name ZDevView \
    --fvk "<dev_ufvk>" \
    --birthday 3274265 \
    --seed-fingerprint "<dev_seed_fp>" \
    --hd-account-index 0 \
    -s zecrocks
λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet -w ../view-wallet sync -s zecrocks

Asking for the balance here should show the same balance as we saw in our original wallet:

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- wallet -w ../view-wallet balance

We're now going to use the view-only wallet to create a PCZT. If you don't have a separate testnet wallet to receive these funds, you can always use the wallet's own address, or you can create a separate wallet to better simulate multiple independent wallets interacting.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- pczt -w ../view-wallet create --address <...> --value 12340000 --memo "Hello from a PCZT!" > ../test_pczt.created

We can inspect that with the pzct inspect subcommand.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- pczt inspect < ../test_pczt.created

We can create the proofs for that PCZT using the view-only (online) wallet:

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- pczt -w ../view-wallet prove < ../test_pczt.created > ../test_pczt.proven

Now, using the "offline" wallet (our original ../dev-wallet), we're going to add the signatures. Note that we use ../test_pczt.created as the input, not the version containing the proofs. Once we've created both the signed and proven PCZTs separately, we'll combine them in a later step. Note that, because we're making signatures, we have to provide the age identity file to use to decrypt the spending key.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- pczt -w ../dev-wallet sign --identity ../dev-wallet/dev-key.txt < ../test_pczt.created > ../test_pczt.signed

With proofs and signatures complete, we can combine the PCZTs. This operation doesn't require a wallet at all.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- pczt combine -i ../test_pczt.signed -i ../test_pczt.proven > ../test_pczt.combined

Now all that's left is to extract the finished transaction, and send it to the chain. We'll do this using the "online" view-only wallet.

λ cargo run --release --all-features -- pczt -w ../view-wallet/ send -s zecrocks < ../test_pczt.combined

Local Development

It's often useful to build with local versions of the crates that zcash-devtool depends upon. Doing so is easy; just add a set of patch directives to the root Cargo.toml file. The example below assumes that you have librustzcash and incrementalmerkletree checked out locally. With these patch directives in place, local changes to the relevant crates will be immediately usable in the devtool.

[patch.crates-io]
equihash = { path = "../librustzcash/components/equihash/" }
pczt = { path = "../librustzcash/pczt/" }
transparent = { package = "zcash_transparent", path = "../librustzcash/zcash_transparent/" }
zcash_address = { path = "../librustzcash/components/zcash_address/" }
zcash_client_backend = { path = "../librustzcash/zcash_client_backend" }
zcash_client_sqlite = { path = "../librustzcash/zcash_client_sqlite" }
zcash_encoding = { path = "../librustzcash/components/zcash_encoding/" }
zcash_keys = { path = "../librustzcash/zcash_keys/" }
zcash_primitives = { path = "../librustzcash/zcash_primitives" }
zcash_proofs = { path = "../librustzcash/zcash_proofs" }
zcash_protocol = { path = "../librustzcash/components/zcash_protocol" }
zip321 = { path = "../librustzcash/components/zip321/" }

incrementalmerkletree = { path = "../incrementalmerkletree/incrementalmerkletree/" }
shardtree = { path = "../incrementalmerkletree/shardtree/" }

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