Settings now says "Manual transaction" and the privacy row reads "Messages &
lookups" opening a new Network privacy page that tells the truth: messages,
names, price and avatars ride the Nym mixnet; the grin node connects directly.
README and lander updated to match.
Requests are messages, payments are final: declining a request now sends the
requester a void control message (NIP-17), a requester can cancel a request they
sent (cancels the local invoice and notifies the payer), and incoming requests
resolve the sender's verified @username instead of a bare npub. The Requested
amount on the success screen is centered. New NostrDecline/NostrCancel tasks and
a goblin-action control message carry it, bound to the stored counterparty.
Localization: every Goblin-screen string moved to t!() keys (370 keys) and
translated into de/fr/ru/tr/zh-CN, guarded by a key/placeholder drift test.
System-locale auto-detect now matches region locales like zh-CN.
Goblin now links nym-sdk directly and runs its SOCKS5 client on an
internal tokio runtime exposing 127.0.0.1:1080 — the same loopback seam
the transport already dials. There is no sidecar subprocess and no
bundled/embedded/sideloaded helper binary; the goblin process itself owns
:1080. This mirrors how GRIM links arti/Tor in-process. Verified live: the
mixnet comes up in ~1.4-2s (gateway persisted in ~/.goblin/nym, reused
across launches) and a relay connects in ~2s over it, with no separate
process.
- Cargo.toml: add nym-sdk (path dep on the local nym checkout, which carries
the Android webpki-roots patch) + rustls with the ring feature.
- src/lib.rs: install rustls' ring CryptoProvider at startup. Linking nym-sdk
pulls aws-lc-rs alongside our ring; with two providers present rustls 0.23
won't auto-pick a default and tokio-tungstenite/reqwest panic on the first
TLS handshake. nym uses its own explicit provider, so this only steers our
relay/HTTP TLS.
- src/nym/sidecar.rs: replace the subprocess machinery with an in-process
Socks5MixnetClient (persistent storage; ephemeral fallback) kept alive for
the process lifetime on a dedicated runtime. Drops the binary lookup, embed
extraction, init/launch, and child management.
- build.rs: drop the GOBLIN_NYM_*_BIN embed block (nothing to embed).
- src/nym/{mod,transport}.rs, src/nostr/{mod,avatar}.rs: docs now describe the
in-process client; clear stray "old Tor/arti" wording (no Tor transport code
remains — only grin-core's slatepack OnionV3Address, which is unrelated).
Also: named users now get the pubkey-seeded gradient background with their
initial composited on top (instead of the Grin mark) — gui identicon.rs gains
gradient_bg_svg and widgets.rs gains gradient_letter_avatar; avatar_any routes
named keys to it. Verified live with @nymgoblin.
Owner disliked the Gamja Flower ツ style on the center Pay puck. Replace it with
Noto Sans JP's cleaner, more geometric katakana tsu — subset to ONLY that one
glyph (~1.7 KB) the same way the old one was, loaded as the "noto-tsu" family and
drawn at the puck (mod.rs). Drop the now-unused Gamja Flower font + its license.
Route every relay and HTTP request (nostr relays, NIP-05, price) through
a local nym-socks5-client sidecar on 127.0.0.1:1080, so all traffic
egresses via the 5-hop Nym mixnet and nothing touches the clear net.
- Add src/nym/: SOCKS5 HTTP client (reqwest socks5h), NymWebSocketTransport
for the nostr relay pool (tokio-socks dial + TLS/ws handshake over the
mixnet), and a sidecar launcher that reuses or spawns nym-socks5-client.
- Swap the nostr-sdk transport off ArtiWebSocketTransport; route nip05.rs
and price.rs off Tor; revert the clearnet username-lookup shortcut.
- Remove the embedded arti Tor client wholesale: the onion-service
listener and send-to-onion path in the wallet, the legacy transport
GUI tab, the Tor settings page, src/tor/, the webtunnel pluggable
transport (Go build + submodule), and all arti crates from Cargo.toml.
The Grin node connection is unchanged (chain data, no payment metadata,
and never used Tor). The network requester the sidecar routes through is
configured via GOBLIN_NYM_PROVIDER / NETWORK_REQUESTER at deploy time.
The center Pay puck rendered ツ through the Noto SC fallback (Geist has no
katakana) — a stiff, geometric glyph. Embed a 1.2 KB subset of Gamja Flower
(OFL) containing only ツ and use it solely at that one widget; its ツ is the
cute winking-smiley shape. Every other ツ (balances, title, activity) is
untouched.
Camera/QR (validated live with a v4l2loopback virtual camera):
- decode non-MJPEG frames on Linux (raw YUYV was undecodable: eternal
spinner), enumerate devices off the UI thread without unwrap, open
cameras by their real device index (list position broke whenever
/dev/video0 was absent), show "No camera found" after 5s
- scan-to-pay: QR button in the send recipient search row and the
mobile home header; in-surface camera panel feeding recipient
resolution; only text payloads accepted (seeds/slatepacks refused)
- receive QR was unscannable: full cells (0.5px gaps fragmented finder
patterns at 4.5px cells), always ink-on-white plate (inverted codes
fail many scanners), center mark 26% -> 19% (zbar chokes above);
rqrr+zbar both decode the live card now; unit tests cover the exact
widget geometry
First-run onboarding (replaces the stock empty state only; the wallet
list, add-wallet modal and GRIM creation flow stay for later wallets):
- intro -> node choice (Private integrated / Instant external with
URL) -> create or restore (wraps MnemonicSetup; word grid, paste,
SeedQR scan) -> optional @username claim with prominent skip
- fonts bind at creation context so frame one can use Geist families
Sweep fixes (22 confirmed findings, the simple ones):
- yellow theme: active sidebar nav was dark-on-dark (P1)
- window frame ring painted with theme bg: transparent clear color
rendered as a black band without a compositor (P2)
- import/rotate identity inputs get visible field wells (P2)
- receive buttons: verb labels + transient "Copied" feedback
- review hero card fills the column; fee row copy; pay-tab stale and
duplicated hints; unlock modal copy; node card subtitle truncation
- build number stays current (.git/logs/HEAD rerun trigger)
Backup restore: import accepts the export-time password and re-encrypts
under the current wallet password; cross-device restores work.
31 lib tests green. Mainnet-validated: both flows restored real
wallets; 0.1 grin sent B->A through NIP-17 over Tor with async
open/close ping-pong; tx 71fbfce4f591 posted on-chain.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stability (found via GUI testing):
- tor: create arti runtime on a clean thread; lazy TOR_STATE init panicked
inside tokio contexts and poisoned the whole Tor/nostr stack
- store: open rkv SafeMode envs with capacity headroom; reopening at
exactly DEFAULT_MAX_DBS crashed every wallet restart (DbsFull)
- goblin ui: centered_column hands children a full-height rect; ScrollAreas
inside clipped everything below the first widget
- build: webtunnel client was silently embedded as 0 bytes without Go;
warn at build, extract with create_dir_all + exec bit at runtime
- price: CoinGecko requires a User-Agent (403 otherwise); add retry-once
backoff and a parse-failure diagnostic
- tor: retry http_request up to 3x on fresh isolated circuits
UX overhaul (per owner direction + Cash App references):
- floating icon-only 3-tab pill: Wallet / center accent ツ Pay puck /
Activity (requests badge kept); Me opens via header avatar
- Pay tab: amount-first surface (numpad on mobile, typed on desktop) with
Request and Pay; Pay carries the amount straight to Review
- Request flips Receive into "Requesting Nツ" state with a clear chip
- full-bleed goblin surface: GRIM title panel and network column hidden
while a wallet is open; node status card lives in the sidebar above the
profile chip; Lock wallet row added (Settings -> Wallet)
- goblin branding: titlebar, wallet-list logo + GOBLIN, new mark assets
(white master, theme-tinted) in wordmark, QR center, wallet list
- build-based versioning: Build N = commits since the GRIM fork base,
emitted by build.rs; About leads with it, Third party credits GRIM,
grin node, nostr-sdk, arti, egui and the implemented NIPs
Accessibility & settings:
- surface_text{,_dim,_mute} tokens: yellow theme has dark cards on a
bright bg; all on-surface text now readable in every theme (incl. QR)
- settings rows clickable across the whole row; profile card fills width;
density option removed (comfy fixed)
- editable Node connections (integrated/external, add/remove) and Relays
(add/remove + live service restart); NIPs explainer page with goblin.st
context; third-party rows link to upstream projects
- standardized npub truncation (head 12 ... tail 6) shown in profile
Identity (owner decision: drop NIP-06 seed binding):
- random standalone nsec (Keys::generate); seed proves nothing about the
identity and cannot resurrect it; legacy Derived identities still unlock
- key rotation: double warning (pending payments disrupted), typed RESET +
wallet password, fresh random key, username moved atomically via the
name server transfer endpoint; aborts cleanly if the move fails
- encrypted identity backup export (NIP-49 ncryptsec JSON, includes
username + history) and import accepting nsec or backup JSON
- nip05d: POST /api/v1/transfer (NIP-98 by current owner, atomic
owner-guarded swap, one-name-per-pubkey enforced) + SQL invariant tests
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New src/gui/views/goblin/ module rendered as the primary surface for an open
wallet: bottom tab bar (Wallet/Activity/Scan/Me), balance hero in ツ, Send/
Receive, recent peers, activity feed (wallet txs joined with nostr metadata
by slate id), pending payment requests with approve/decline, receive screen
with nostr-handle QR, settings/Me tab. Full send flow (recipient resolve via
npub/NIP-05 over Tor -> numpad amount -> review -> hold-to-send -> success)
dispatching WalletTask::NostrSend. Widgets library, fiat preview over Tor.
Fixed a font-binding panic: weight families are referenced only at widget
call sites, not in default text styles (set_fonts applies a pass later).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Infrastructure (P0): deployed nostr-rs-relay (wss://nrelay.us-ea.st) and the
goblin-nip05d NIP-05 service (goblin.st) on us-ea.st with TLS + DNS.
Brand & theme (P1): Goblin name/icon/data-dir (.goblin); three-theme token
system (light/dark/yellow) in gui/theme.rs with colors.rs remapped as a shim;
Geist + Geist Mono fonts; AppConfig theme/density/last_wallet_id.
Nostr subsystem (P2-P3): src/nostr/ with NIP-06 identity (seed-derived,
NIP-49 encrypted), per-wallet rkv archive, guarded ingest policy (never
auto-pays Invoice1; binds replies to the stored counterparty npub), NIP-17
send/receive pipeline, NIP-05 client. Relay traffic routed over the embedded
arti Tor client via a custom WebSocketTransport. Wired into Wallet lifecycle
and the task handler. 26 unit tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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