Self sovereign, secure, powerful, easy to use wallet that utilizes your own Bitcoin Core node as a backend. Providing an easy to use interface to interact with your nodes non wallet capabilities. Fully Noded™️ wallets are powered by PSBT's and descriptors. Fully Noded acts as an offline signer using your node as a watch-only wallet as well as giving you full unfettered access to every wallet.dat in your nodes .bitcoin directory. C-Lightning compatible for instant, unfairly cheap payments.
Even though this project is open source, this does not mean you can reuse this code when distributing closed source commercial products. Please contact us to discuss licensing options before you start building your product.
If you are an open source project, please contact us to arrange for an App Store redistribution exception. For more information about why this is required, please read this blog post from Open Whisper Systems.
Downloading the Fully Noded™️ iOS app is 100% free because it is important that all people around the world have unrestricted access to a private, self sovereign means of using Bitcoin. However, developing and supporting this project is hard work and costs real money. Please help support the development of this project!
- GitHub Sponsors
- ⚡️ Tor lightning donation (Tor browser required)
- 🔗 Bitcoin
bc1q6xw40gsm86yk78dlfun70nt7meh2nq9j7sc7ym - The preferred method of donation is via the app itself, simply tap the
♥️ button when creating a transaction and it will automatically load a donation address which is derived from a hard coded xpub within the app:
- Privacy. Majority of existing Bitcoin wallets are powered by someone else's node, this causes complete and utter loss of privacy. By running your own node and utilizing it via a Tor hidden service you are maintaining a high level of privacy.
- Security. All communications to your node are done within the Tor network, this means your IP is never exposed, your communications to your node are heavily encrypted, this is by default and not possible to opt out of. The app allows you to utilize Tor V3 authentication for first in class security, in short this means you self authenticate your device and no other device will be able to connect to your node. The app by default never uses your node as a hot wallet and instead keeps your seed heavily encrypted and securely stored on your iOS device, private keys never touch a network request, Tor or otherwise. With Fully Noded™️ architecture you can always keep your node completely behind a firewall and access it securely from anywhere in the world.
- Sovereignty. You are in total control, you run a self hosted server which then powers your mobile wallet. There is no middle man which can deny you access to your own server. You are in control of your private keys and utxo's.
- Censorship Resistance. If you rely on a companies' server to power your wallet you are inherently relying on them, they can at any time disable your connection to their servers, shut them off or be forced to deny you service. When using Fully Noded™️ you never have to be concerned about a third party censoring your payments, you are quite literally your own bank.
- Recovery. Users may recover any wallet with the app, simply create a Recovery wallet with BIP39 seed words and automatically recover every popular wallet in one fell swoop. For advanced users you may create a descriptor of any type and import it with the app, this allows every wallet type imaginable to be recovered. If you have existing wallets on your node which are watch-only you may add BIP39 seed words to the app to make them spendable.
- Bitcoin Core, recommended v0.20.1
- Tor
- An understanding of basic Bitcoin concepts, you can read this overview. It greatly helps to have a basic understanding of
bitcoin-clicommands, what they do and how they work to grasp how the app works under the hood. Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line is an excellent in depth reference.
- After downloading the app you need to first connect a node - see the guides
- On macOS by far the easiest way (one click setup) is to use Gordian-Server, download here
- For linux you can use this script
- Connect your existing node
- To connect a node box see our guides:
- In order to connect to your own node you need to expose its functionality to a Tor Hidden Service:
- Once you are connected for best in class security practices you ought to take full advantage of the apps ability to authenticate over native Tor V3:
- Troubleshooting
- Wallet usage
- Bitcoin Core (node) related
- Connecting your node
- Importing a wallet from Specter
- Build From Source
- Quick Connect uri
- How does it work?
- Recovery
- Lightning
- Tor
- Get started
- Set and reset a password to lock the app, enable and disable biometrics
- Coldcard single signature wallet
- Coldcard multi signature wallet
- Create, spend from and recover a multisig wallet
- Peter Denton (new): 1C72 2776 3647 A221 6E02 E539 025E 9AD2 D3AC 0FCA
- Peter Denton (old): 3B37 97FA 0AE8 4BE5 B440 6591 8564 01D7 121C 32FC
Thank you for your interest in contributing to Fully Noded™️! To avoid potential legal headaches and to allow distribution on Apple's App Store please sign our CLA (Contributors License Agreement).
- Sign the CLA, and email it to dentondevelopment@protonmail.com.
- Fork the project and (preferably) work in a feature branch.
- Open a pull request on GitHub adding your signed CLA here.
- All commits must be pgp signed, see this guide.
- Thank you!
Software License Agreement (GPLv3+)
Copyright (c) 2018, Peter Denton. All rights reserved.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
If you would like to relicense this code to distribute it on the App Store, please contact me at dentondevelopment@protonmail.com.
This software additionally references or incorporates the following sources of intellectual property, the license terms for which are set forth in the sources themselves:
- Credit to Chat-Secure Readme.md for inspiring the layout/format and some of the text of this document.
- Credit to Blockchain Commons for the format of the CLA.
The following dependencies are bundled with the Fully Noded™️, but are under terms of a separate license:
- Tor for connecting to your node more privately and securely.
- Libwally-Swift which relies on Libwally-Core v0.7.7 for converting cryptographically secure entropy to BIP39 words, deriving HD keys and most importantly signing psbt's.
- DescriptorParser.swift from Blockchain Commons which is under the spdx:BSD-2-Clause Plus Patent License.
- Base32 built by @norio-nomura - for Tor V3 authentication key encoding which is licensed under The MIT License (MIT).
- Base58 from @LukeDash-jr and the Waves Platform which is licensed under The MIT License (MIT). Used for converting Slip0132 extended keys to xpubs/xprvs.
