yecshell
is a command line Ycash light client. It is a fork of Zecwallet Light CLI. To use it, download the latest binary from the releases page and run ./yecshell
This will launch the interactive prompt. Type help
to get a list of commands
You can also run yecshell
in non-interactive mode by passing the command you want to run as an argument. For example, yecshell addresses
will list all wallet addresses and exit.
Run yecshell help
to see a list of all commands.
- While all the keys and transaction detection happens on the client, the server can learn what blocks contain your shielded transactions.
- The server also learns other metadata about you like your ip address etc...
- Also remember that t-addresses don't provide any privacy protection.
- If you want to run your own server, please see lightwalletd, and then run
./yecshell --server http://127.0.0.1:9067
. - The log file is in
~/.zcash/yecshell_debug.log
. Wallet is stored in~/.ycash/yecshell_wallet.dat
YecShell does automatic note and utxo management, which means it doesn't allow you to manually select which address to send outgoing transactions from. It follows these principles:
- Defaults to sending shielded transactions, even if you're sending to a transparent address
- Sapling funds need at least 2 confirmations before they can be spent
- Can select funds from multiple shielded addresses in the same transaction
- Will automatically shield your transparent funds at the first opportunity
- When sending an outgoing transaction to a shielded address, Zecwallet-CLI can decide to use the transaction to additionally shield your transparent funds (i.e., send your transparent funds to your own shielded address in the same transaction)
- Rust v1.37 or higher.
- Run
rustup update
to get the latest version of Rust if you already have it installed
- Run
- Rustfmt
- Run
rustup component add rustfmt
to add rustfmt
- Run
- Build tools
- Please install the build tools for your platform. On Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential gcc
- Please install the build tools for your platform. On Ubuntu
git clone https://github.com/adityapk00/zecwallet-light-cli.git
cargo build --release
./target/release/zecwallet-cli
mv -iv ./target/release/zecwallet-cli ./target/release/yecshell
Here are some CLI arguments you can pass to yecshell
. Please run yecshell --help
for the full list.
--server
: Connect to a custom zecwallet lightwalletd server.- Example:
./yecshell --server 127.0.0.1:9067
- Example:
--seed
: Restore a wallet from a seed phrase. Note that this will fail if there is an existing wallet. Delete (or move) any existing wallet to restore from the 24-word seed phrase- Example:
./yecshell --seed "twenty four words seed phrase"
- Example:
--recover
: Attempt to recover the seed phrase from a corrupted wallet