rob thijssen
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The frame every screen sits in. A lock screen fronts everything while the session is locked: pick a wallet file, type a password, and the password goes to Rust and nowhere else. Unlocked, a sidebar carries the sections, the network switcher and a lock button with the minutes until the idle rule fires; a status bar shows the chain in use, its endpoint, best and finalized heights and spec version, and says "connecting…" or the last error otherwise. Testnets are labelled in the switcher, the status bar and above their content, as on the observer: a balance on a testnet is not money and the chrome says so before the number does. Settings persist as JSON in the app-data directory, written atomically: network, idle lock, whether testnets are offered. Changing the network re-keys every query; changing the idle lock takes effect on the next check. The theme (system, dark, light) is a local preference applied before first paint from the entry point, because the CSP allows no inline script. Design tokens are the observer's, lifted whole so the wallet and the scoreboard read as one family. The accounts page shows spendable and total per account with the block the numbers were read at and how far that is from final, refreshed by Rust on every head; send, receive and history are placeholders naming their issues. Wide integers now cross the IPC typed as `number`: they are JSON numbers on the wire, which `bigint` cannot be serialised to, and none of them (block heights, seconds, nonces) approaches 2^53. Amounts still travel as strings. Closes #25 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014ftBXYuba8ARhQeF74oUgW
blackbeard wallet
A desktop wallet for post-quantum chains, Quantus first.
Linux, Windows and macOS; installable on Fedora with dnf.
Shape
The wallet is a Rust cargo workspace with a Tauri shell and a React webview. That split is the security model, not a convenience: every key, signature, decoded transaction and amount lives on the Rust side, and the webview only renders what a Tauri command hands it. Nothing that could serialise a secret is reachable from JavaScript.
crates/
wallet-entities/ domain types and the IPC wire protocol; exported to TypeScript
wallet-core/ wallet logic and the ports it is written against
wallet-data/ adapters behind those ports: keystore, cache, RPC, provider APIs
wallet-app/ the Tauri binary; commands are one-line shims into core
ui/ Vite + React + TypeScript webview
The ports in wallet-core are what make "any post-quantum chain" a profile
rather than a rewrite:
KeySchemeturns a seed and a path into a signer. ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87 now; whatever the next chain uses later.ChainAdapterknows one chain: balances, building and submitting a transaction, watching it. The Substrate adapter is driven by runtime metadata plus a small per-chain profile (ss58 prefix, decimals, signature enum, transaction extensions, signing-context rule, coin type).SwapProvideris a swap venue. NEAR Intents first.FiatRampbuilds a provider session through a relay on our infrastructure, which holds the provider secrets, and opens it in the system browser.
The wallet is post-quantum only. Classical chains appear only as transit legs of a swap or ramp; the wallet never derives a secp256k1 or ed25519 key.
Why these choices
Quantus signs extrinsics with ML-DSA, hashes public keys with Poseidon2 for
the account id, and shields mining rewards behind a Plonky2 wormhole whose
prover is minutes of native CPU. All of that exists as Rust crates and nothing
else, so the core is Rust. Tauri is the house desktop convention
(~/git/architecture/generic.md §4) and the only shell that packages rpm, deb,
msi and dmg with a Rust-owned IPC boundary out of the box.
NEAR's post-quantum work (their MPC fork with threshold ML-DSA-87) is not yet able to sign a Quantus extrinsic, so the swap module is built and tested against chains NEAR Intents already lists, with Quantus as a registry entry that lights up when the bridge does.
Building
pnpm --dir ui install
cargo tauri dev --config crates/wallet-app/tauri.conf.json # from crates/wallet-app: cargo tauri dev
cargo test --workspace # also regenerates ui/src/api/generated
The CI gate is cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy -D warnings, cargo test,
and the webview's typecheck, lint and build. Run them before claiming done.
Work
Work is filed before it is done. Epics carry the epic label and an external
definition of done; their steps carry child, in dependency order, at
https://git.lair.cafe/blackbeard/wallet/issues. A commit that finishes a
child closes it (Closes #N); when an investigation contradicts an issue, the
correction is a comment on the issue, dated, not a surprise in a diff.