Hello my friends how are you doing today?
Apparently there is no Zingo Wallet for desktop? At least I couldn’t find it.
If there are a Zingo Wallet for Desktop, i’m sorry for this post.
Since I’m working on nice projects involving Zcash, I was developing a Node.js library using zecwallet-cli. But it looks like Adityapk00 will no longer develop zecwallet.
So I decieded to develop my libraries using Zingolib instead.
Just for the fun of it, I decided to port Zecwallet-lite to use Zingolib, instead of zecwallet-cli lib.
It’s currently working, but I really don’t know how reliable it is, since I had to do some tricks to make this work.
How it works?
Zecwallet-lite is just a front end written in typescript / electron, all the magic happens behind the scenes using zecwallet-cli lib through a rust/nodejs binding called Neon.
What I’ve done to make zecwallet-lite to work with Zingolib?
Zingolib does things a little differently than zecwallet-cli lib does.
So first of all I rewrote the Neon binding to work with Zingolib.
Then I had to change the calls from zecwallet-lite to the lib, reconstructing the output from Zingolib in a way zecwallet can understand.
Example:
in zecwallet-cli lib the output from balance command is something like:
{
"uabalance": 100000,
"zbalance": 1829095,
"verified_zbalance": 1829095,
"spendable_zbalance": 1829095,
"unverified_zbalance": 0,
"tbalance": 0,
"ua_addresses": [
{
"address": "u1k943x33k0aeet8afy2n37zfdm352kefgnhzgnjxn0nc7rzgmnp45rj2nrwghy8j6xqk54swssjynxps5z0hw9gg6y8wnz7cmkyd62ywt",
"balance": 100000
},
],
"z_addresses": [
{
"address": "zs1pzrnyeungrga89kaya257y4qewjy0g600qmjjtp8kwf45sn6plzzvnvzxg9s592tayg6xlc98rn",
"zbalance": 1819095,
"verified_zbalance": 1819095,
"spendable_zbalance": 1819095,
"unverified_zbalance": 0
},
],
"t_addresses": [
{
"address": "t1cuKVi4L8bjkAku9WxjKVDRbjmEaMrj4bb",
"balance": 0
},
}
while the output from Zingo lib looks like:
{
"sapling_balance": 0,
"verified_sapling_balance": 0,
"spendable_sapling_balance": 0,
"unverified_sapling_balance": 0,
"orchard_balance": 0,
"verified_orchard_balance": 0,
"spendable_orchard_balance": 0,
"unverified_orchard_balance": 0,
"transparent_balance": 0
}
So i had to reconstruct the first, with information from the latter. Some guess work had to be done here, And I don’t know it’s 100% acurate.
The commands that needed to be reconstructed:
- balance
- notes
- list
- lasttxid (which zingo lib lacks)
- zecprice
I also changed the default server to https://mainnet.lightwalletd.com:9067
Looks like zcash.in is having some trouble, so I changed the block explorer to zecblockexplorer
And many oother minor changes.
Most of the change I’ve made was on src/rpc.ts file. see the changes here
Functions like wallet encryption, and exporting indivudual keys for addresses won’t work, because zingolib lacks this commands.
Edit 02/25/2023
To understand what I did, see this file in this repo
After compiling native.node you can run the test file with:
$ node test.js
TL;DR
I’ve hacked zecwallet-lite to work with Zingolib under the hood 
You can check it out on this github repo:
It’s just a hack, it’s woking, but I haven’t tested thoroughly.
Other stuff about zingolib you might find interesting:
- Article about Zingolib cli I wrote on Free2z
- Article about regtest mode using Zingolib cli I wrote on Free2z
I hope this can be useful somehow.