build133 shipped the Tor transport but two delivery bugs remained; this
fixes both so payments resolve through confirmations again.
- Drop the pinned relay .onion. It was a single fragile hidden-service hop
shared by every wallet; under load it flapped (WebSocket 1006), and when
it dropped mid-handshake a payment stalled after the first gift-wrap --
you'd get the incoming alert but the money never confirmed. Every relay is
now reached over the Tor exit to its clearnet host: your IP still stays
hidden from the relay, with no fragile onion hop to wedge. The has-onion
gate that rejected an onion-less relay list is removed, and the pinned
candidate pool carries no onion/exit fields.
- Tor-friendly relay set. Defaults/fallbacks had included relays that refuse
Tor-exit connections (damus, nos.lol); wallets that fell back to them
couldn't send at all. Defaults and the pinned pool are now
relay.floonet.dev, relay.0xchat.com, offchain.pub.
- confirm-before-sent no longer false-fails across a relay reconnect (a
confirmed-received wrap is treated as sent-pending instead of re-dispatched,
which had duplicated wraps and hung the spinner); a v3 gift-wrap unwrap
failure no longer silently drops the message.
Validated over Tor with two funded wallets on two independent mainnet nodes:
connect in seconds, send to finalize in 8s.
The wallet's private transport moves from the Nym mixnet to embedded Tor
(arti, copied from GRIM's engine): it dials the relay's pinned .onion, so
the relay never learns your IP, while the relay + NIP-59 gift-wrap hide the
rest - content, sender, and (via a relay-side randomized release) timing.
The Grin node stays on the clear internet as before.
Why leave the mixnet: the Nym free-tier bandwidth this depended on is being
removed upstream (the grant expires at UTC midnight; the paid path requires
holding NYM tokens), so a payments wallet can't stand on it. Tor is
unmetered, embedded in-process on mobile, faster where users wait, and
lighter on the battery.
Preserved intact: the confirm-before-sent guard, relay-gated readiness, and
the lazy warm-on-activity node polling. src/nym/ is feature-gated off (arti
and nym-sdk can't share one binary); full removal is a follow-up.
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 default webtunnel list bundles wt.gri.mw with public bridges that rot;
bundling them means arti can fixate on a dead/zombie bridge (front up, tunnel
dead) and burn the whole 120s bootstrap timeout — observed live on Android as
'stuck at 15%, had to reset bootstrapping too many times' (48 attempts on a
zombie, 1 on the good bridge). Now the first attempt uses the maintained
default alone; the public bridges stay as fallback in pairs only if it's
unreachable. Verified on the API-36 emulator: Tor reaches 100% over wt.gri.mw,
zero attempts on the dead bridge.
- SECURITY (High): drop sort_bridges_by_reachability / bridge_probe_addr. The
Build 30 probe did clearnet DNS + direct TCP to bridge endpoints outside Tor
on every startup, deanonymizing bridge users. The consensus-cache keep + 120s
timeout + pre-warm remain and are the real fix for slow first connect.
- SECURITY (Low): cap HTTP response bodies from the untrusted goblin.st server
at 2 MiB, streamed so a lying/absent Content-Length can't OOM the wallet.
Identity overhaul (server changes deployed to goblin.st separately):
Avatars
- profile pictures hosted on goblin.st, tied to the username: tap the
settings avatar → native image picker → 256px PNG uploaded over Tor
- letter avatars now use (background, ink) color pairs (8) keyed off the
npub, and render the first ALPHANUMERIC char — never the '@'
- custom pictures shown everywhere self/contacts appear: settings card,
home header, sidebar chip, peers strip, activity rows, send recipient
- AvatarTextures: disk cache (~/.goblin/cache/avatars) + background Tor
fetch + egui textures loaded on the UI thread; a network/Tor failure
is never cached as "no avatar" (would have stuck for 6h)
- nostr/avatar.rs mirrors the server's sniff→limits→orientation→crop→
256→re-encode-PNG pipeline so uploads are small and previews instant
Username lifecycle
- rotating the key now RELEASES the username (and deletes its avatar
server-side) instead of transferring; rotation aborts if release fails
- claim panel is one Claim button (checks then registers); registered
state shows "Registered <name>" + a Release action behind an
are-you-sure gate ("up for grabs the moment it's free")
- released names are immediately re-claimable (quarantine removed)
Other
- Tor::http_request_bytes: binary bodies + status code, for upload and
avatar download (string http_request kept as a wrapper)
- settings reordered Identity-first, then Wallet
- sidebar node card is 3 lines: status / block height / host
- profile card shows the full npub when it fits, else head…tail
34 lib tests green. Live-verified on goblin.st: upload→serve (image/png,
nosniff, immutable)→5/day limit (6th 429)→release purges avatar; a real
picture for @fartmuncher22 fetched over Tor and rendered across surfaces.
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check_availability returns Unknown when the Tor request dies, and the
claim panels collapsed everything but Available into 'Taken' — a free
name looked taken whenever a circuit flaked. The full enum now reaches
both panels: Unknown reads 'Couldn't check — connection hiccup. Try
again.' in neutral gray, and Reserved/Invalid/Quarantined get their own
copy. Tor::http_request also backs off up to ~15s across 5 attempts:
fresh circuits fail while arti refreshes its directory consensus over
the bridge, and 3 tries in 4.5s couldn't ride that out.
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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>
Wallet:
- identity.json (NIP-49 ncryptsec) now written 0600 in a 0700 dir so a local
user can't grind the wallet password offline (+ regression test).
- Wallet password held as a ZeroingString through init_nostr so it's scrubbed
on drop instead of lingering in a plain String for the session.
- Replaced 4 .unwrap() on re-read tx_meta with graceful guards (archive wipe
mid-send could otherwise panic the nostr/task thread).
- Tor::http_request/post: bind the client once via let-else and propagate TLS
builder errors, fixing a TOCTOU unwrap panic on concurrent Tor restart.
goblin-nip05d server (redeployed to goblin.st, verified live):
- One-name-per-pubkey now enforced by a partial UNIQUE index (closes the
check-then-insert race); INSERT rows-affected==0 returns 409 not a false 201.
- NIP-98 replay protection: one-time auth event-id enforcement within the
freshness window; tightened forward skew to +5s.
- Rate-limited the unauthenticated GET endpoints; SQLite in WAL mode.
- Verified live: replay rejected, second name for a pubkey blocked.
Audit verdict: fund-safety invariants (never auto-pay Invoice1; S2/I2
finalization bound to counterparty npub) and Tor-from-day-one all hold.
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>
- Limit loading at tix list
- Sort txs by confirmation status to show txs waiting for an action at top
- Ability to delete wallet from the list without opening
- Optimize Tor connection on account switch
Reviewed-on: https://code.gri.mw/GUI/grim/pulls/53
- Update common dependencies
- Optimize check of running Tor service
- Async peer saving
- Add mainnet and testnet seeds
- Remove grinnode.live from default external connections
Reviewed-on: https://code.gri.mw/GUI/grim/pulls/43
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