# 2 years of Lightwalletd Infra hosting & maintenance **URL:** \ **Category:** Applications\ **Created:** [January 5, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126 "2021-01-05T00:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mistfpga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/mistfpga/32/17700_2.png) [@mistfpga](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/mistfpga)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126/21 "2021-01-23T11:10:13Z")
> [@aiyadt](#): > > We can review and evaluate the benefits of HSM and follow up if we plan to undertake it. I would appreciate if you can point out to resources and pros/cons of using HSN for blockchain security. already on it. - they have specific usecases for lightwallets. chat when we get a chance > [@aiyadt](#): > > As for security testing, Ill do any testing and write any test plan. doesnt have to be security. > [@aiyadt](#): > > security audits audits? we realistically cannot do a zcash audit, is their even a single accredited zcash auditor out there? however the ux, ui, memory space, etc can be. Ill add that to my RTA list. I know companies that specialise in this area. a very unlikely plan of mine would be to go through the grants and work out what company fits with what. Costing and scope can then be added. the HSM was just to hold the blockchain. (2k zfnd, 2.4 if i buy it…) Id trust an auto TLS peer from the zfnd just to bootstrap things. thats what i meant by hsm. you could go super cheap and put it on a solo for 250 gbp ---
**Author:** ![aiyadt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@aiyadt](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/aiyadt)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126/22 "2021-03-01T00:38:03Z")
[@ZcashGrants](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/groups/zcashgrants) lightwalletd services are up and running for testnet & mainnet with warrant canary, see [lightwalletd.com](https://lightwalletd.com) Run the following grpcurl commands to get info: `grpcurl testnet.lightwalletd.com:9067 cash.z.wallet.sdk.rpc.CompactTxStreamer/GetLightdInfo` `grpcurl mainnet.lightwalletd.com:9067 cash.z.wallet.sdk.rpc.CompactTxStreamer/GetLightdInfo` Ansible documentation will be added to the website soon. ---
**Author:** ![vamsi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/vamsi/32/18917_2.png) [@vamsi](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/vamsi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126/23 "2021-03-01T08:30:43Z")
also check out the status page [https://status.lightwalletd.com/](https://status.lightwalletd.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Shawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/shawn/32/187_2.png) [@Shawn](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Shawn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126/24 "2021-03-01T10:03:39Z")
This is very cool, thanks for the update. ---
**Author:** ![aiyadt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@aiyadt](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/aiyadt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126/25 "2021-07-10T05:04:12Z")
Mid-year checkpoint for [ZF Grants - 2 years of Lightwalletd Infra hosting & maintenance](https://grants.zfnd.org/proposals/1759503645) ✅ [https://lightwalletd.com](https://lightwalletd.com) service is running non-stop with 100% uptime, thanks to the load balanced infra setup. ✅ Status page for uptime is accessible here [https://status.lightwalletd.com](https://status.lightwalletd.com) ✅ Service Warranty Canary is updated monthly by the 2 operators having access to the servers. ✅ Zcashd releases to both test-net & main-net instances are applied regularly. ✅ ECC lightwalletd releases are updated as well to power the light clients utilizing the service [GitHub - zcash/lightwalletd: Lightwalletd is a backend service that provides a bandwidth-efficient interface to the Zcash blockchain](https://github.com/zcash/lightwalletd/) * * * 🆕 Zcash user [centromere](https://github.com/centromere) has made available ECC lightwalletd package in NixOS repository! [nixpkgs/default.nix at d83910c5dbf3e94f5c3ce6a12fef516b1e68c912 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d83910c5dbf3e94f5c3ce6a12fef516b1e68c912/pkgs/applications/blockchains/lightwalletd/default.nix) ---
**Author:** ![aiyadt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@aiyadt](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/aiyadt)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126/26 "2021-12-20T16:59:54Z")
UPDATE: In order to avoid service disruption due to delays, we’ve applied for milestone 3 payment a month early for lightwalletd ops for the fixed rate servers to cover the next 15 months. ---
**Author:** ![skyl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/skyl/32/2938_2.png) [@skyl](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/skyl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126/27 "2022-06-11T07:22:29Z")
Awesome effort @aiyadt ! Heartfelt thanks for all you do. Is there any chance you can run envoy in front for regular 1.1 https traffic to lightwalletd? Do you know of anyone else who is doing such a thing? My eventual goal would be to implememt lightwallets in regular webapps - a simple npm-installable typescript package that could perform wallet actions in a vanilla webapp in a browser. I see several initiatives working towards this goal and i think it would be a gamechanger for the zec ecosystem. [Previous page](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/2-years-of-lightwalletd-infra-hosting-maintenance/38126.md?page=1)