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The fiat subline now fetches the CURRENT rate over Tor only while the balance is actually on screen, and never paints a stale number as if it were live. No disk cache, no background timer: an idle or payment- listening wallet never polls (battery). - price.rs: in-session rate held for a 3-minute freshness window; viewing a stale/missing rate kicks a live refetch. New RateState (Fresh/Loading/ Unavailable) replaces the Option<f64>; failures are tracked so the line says "unavailable" instead of spinning or showing an old value. Removed the disk seed and the persisted-rate write. - config.rs: dropped the dead last_rate/last_rate_vs/last_rate_at fields and their read/write paths. Old configs still load (serde ignores the unknown keys); the fields are simply not written back. - lib.rs: dropped the cold-start seed_from_disk call. - GUI: balance hero fiat line renders a subtle "≈ …" while loading and a localized "rate unavailable" on failure, requesting a bounded repaint while a fetch is pending so the rate pops in on-screen. Pay/send amount preview shows nothing until a fresh rate lands. - New goblin.home.fiat_unavailable string across all six locales. - Tests: freshness-window bounds, is_fresh boundary, classify state machine (fresh/loading/unavailable), and config compat for the removed fields.
Goblin
Goblin is a private, pay-by-username wallet for GRIN ツ - confidential digital cash on Mimblewimble, with no amounts or addresses on the chain.
Instead of passing slatepack files back and forth, you pay a username (or an npub) and the payment is delivered for you as an end-to-end encrypted message over nostr, routed through Tor. Relays only ever see ciphertext - never the amount, the sender, or the recipient. Tor hides your IP from the relay; the relay and encryption hide the rest - content, sender, timing.
Goblin is a fork of the Grim egui GRIN wallet: it keeps Grim's full GRIN node/wallet engine and layers a Nostr-native, mobile-first payments experience on top.
What it does
- Send to people - pay a
usernameornpub; the GRIN slatepack travels as a NIP-17 gift-wrapped DM (kind 1059) over Tor and is applied automatically by the recipient's wallet. No files to swap, no need to both be online at once. - Manual slatepacks too - when you need to pay or get paid without a handle, Settings → Wallet → Slatepacks exposes the classic by-hand flow: create a slatepack to send, or paste one to receive, finalize, or pay.
- In-app identity - a nostr payment key that is deliberately not part of your seed, so you can rotate it any time to stay unlinkable without touching your funds. An optional human-readable
namecomes from the goblin.st identity service. - Private by construction - GRIN's address-less, confidential chain; your payments and identity (nostr relays, NIP-05 lookups, price) are routed through Tor, so who-pays-whom never touches the clear net. The GRIN node connection - block sync and broadcasting your transaction - is direct: public chain data, the same for everyone, and not tied to your identity. Keys, names and history stay on your device.
- Configurable amount pairing - show balances against a world currency, Bitcoin, or sats (rates fetched over Tor), or turn the preview off.
- News on Home - the latest post from the official Goblin news key (a kind 30023 long-form article) appears on the Home screen; it stays hidden when there is nothing to show, and only ever shows the newest article.
- Cross-platform - Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, built in pure Rust on egui.
How a payment travels
you ──slatepack──▶ NIP-17 gift wrap (kind 1059, NIP-44 encrypted)
│
Tor
│
┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
your relays recipient's DM relays (kind 10050)
└─────────────┬─────────────┘
▼
recipient ◀──unwrap, verify seal author, apply slatepack
The wrap is NIP-44-encrypted, and delivery uses the recipient's DM relay list (kind 10050). Tor hides your IP from the relay; the relay and the encryption above hide the rest - content, sender, timing.
Both parties only need one relay in common. The default set is the Goblin relay plus large public relays (relay.damus.io, nos.lol), and the set is editable in Settings → Relays.
Build
Desktop (Linux / macOS / Windows)
Goblin links Tor in-process via arti - the wallet is a single self-contained binary, no sidecar, nothing separate to install:
git submodule update --init --recursive
cargo build --release
./target/release/goblin
Goblin's identity and payment traffic (nostr relays, NIP-05 lookups and price fetches) rides Tor: every relay, the money-path relay included, is reached over a Tor exit to its ordinary clearnet host. The GRIN node connection (block sync and transaction broadcast) is not routed through Tor: it connects directly, as it carries only public chain data that isn't linked to your wallet.
Android
Install the Android SDK / NDK, then from the repo root:
./scripts/android.sh build|release v7|v8|x86
v7/v8/x86 is the device CPU architecture for build; for release pass a version in major.minor.patch form.
Identity service (goblin-nip05d)
The optional name service lives in goblin-nip05d/ (axum + SQLite) and is deployed at goblin.st. It implements NIP-05 resolution, NIP-98-authenticated registration and release (names are never transferred - on a key rotation you release the old name and re-register, or import your existing identity). The wallet is fully usable - and fully anonymous - without it. Avatars aren't stored or served - clients render them from the pubkey (an npub gradient with the username's first letter, else the Grin mark).
License
Apache License v2.0.
Credits
🤖 Built with AI pair-programming assistance (Claude)
The underlying cross-platform GRIN wallet engine is the upstream Grim project.