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cake-wallet

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Cake Wallet

  • Name: Cake Wallet
  • URL: https://cakewallet.com/
  • Category: non-custodial multi-currency wallet / privacy-first payment-and-exchange wallet infrastructure / open-source wallet-control-plane
  • Tags: bitcoin-ecosystem monero-ecosystem
  • Summary: Cake Wallet is better cataloged as wallet-control-plane infrastructure than as a simple mobile wallet. Its official docs, company pages, and public repo jointly show a non-custodial multi-platform wallet with privacy tooling, custom-node support, hardware-wallet integrations, exchange and fiat on/off-ramp hooks, invoice and donation-link flows, and a separate spending layer through Cake Pay. The key nuance from this pass is that Cake’s docs emphasize privacy and broad payment utility rather than Lightning-specific positioning.
  • What it does:
    • Provides a non-custodial multi-currency wallet for Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows
    • Supports privacy and operational-security features such as on-device sync privacy, Tor-only connectivity options, Cake 2FA, and device-hardening guidance
    • Lets users configure custom nodes and explicitly recommends running their own node for stronger privacy and control
    • Supports Ledger hardware-wallet workflows for Monero, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Polygon via USB or Bluetooth restore/use flows
    • Includes built-in exchange, fiat buy/sell flows, invoice and donation-link generation via Trocador AnonPay, and a separate Cake Pay surface for gift cards, debit cards, and Apple/Google Pay spending
    • Publishes the wallet codebase openly and documents APK-signing verification for releases distributed via GitHub, Accrescent, and F-Droid
  • Key claims:
    • The Cake Labs company site says Cake Wallet has operated since January 2018 and serves 250,000 users as a leading non-custodial wallet on iOS and Android
    • The docs homepage says Cake Wallet focuses on making crypto easier through intuitive privacy tools, cross-chain swaps, buying and selling crypto, and hardware-wallet support
    • The public GitHub repo describes Cake Wallet as open-source, non-custodial, private, and multi-currency, with support for custom nodes/servers, Tor-only connections, donation links, invoices, and exchange flows
    • The docs queryable pages say Cake Wallet is available on Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows, supports custom nodes, and documents Ledger hardware-wallet use across multiple chains
    • The docs queryable pages also indicate Lightning support is not a documented product focus in the current docs set; payment-related features are instead framed around Cake Pay, fiat buy/sell, Trocador AnonPay, and Bitcoin privacy features such as Silent Payments and PayJoin
    • The GitHub README says APK releases on GitHub, Accrescent, and F-Droid use the same signing key and can be independently verified, which is a meaningful trust signal for an open wallet product
  • Whitepaper: No canonical standalone Cake Wallet whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the official docs, Cake Labs company site, and the public Cake Wallet repository; see ../whitepapers/cake-wallet-primary-sources-2026-05-01.md.
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Governance / control risk

  • The leverage is in node defaults, exchange and spending integrations, hardware-wallet support, and privacy-routing choices such as Tor and custom-server use.

  • So this is a broad wallet shell with partner rails attached, not a deeper payment primitive.

  • Last reviewed: 2026-05-31 UTC

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