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

0. First, install Go >= 1.11.

1. 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

2. Run the frontend:

go run cmd/server/main.go -bind-addr 127.0.0.1:9067 -conf-file ~/.zcash/zcash.conf

3. Point the zecwallet-cli to this server

./zeclite-cli --server 127.0.0.1:9067