PastPast

Wasabi Wallet was abandoned more than two years ago and I decided to rescue it from a death sentence; such important project cannot die just like that.

The first goal was to make sure the Wallet could not be killed as Samourai Wallet was and the latest version, v2.8.1, achieved that by making it independent from any central server. Wasabi is finally a decentralized lightweight Bitcoin Wallet; or immortal as I like to say.

Coordinator's code was improved greatly too by making them so inexpensive to host that anyone can do it. Lots of changes from SLIP39, Silent Payments and a Release Notifications system based on Nostr were added version after version, things that takes time to build because in Wasabi we do not accept new dependencies, what forces me to write the everything from scratch from crypto for WabiSabi and SLIP39 to json serialization code, everything (just as curiosity, even the Nostr Relay at wss://relay.wasabiwallet.io was written from scratch)

PresentPresent

Currently there are much more ambitious plans and it seems more people are joining with lots of great things, let me tell you a few:

Wasabi MobileWasabi Mobile

Wiesław Šoltés pushed a few weeks ago a Wasabi version that can be built for Android and iOS, it looks really promising.

WabiSabi Native LibraryWabiSabi Native Library

To allow all Bitcoin wallets to coinjoin or to pay in coinjoins. We are dogfooding it at this moment.

Multiparty transaction signing with Hardware WalletsMultiparty transaction signing with Hardware Wallets

Kevin Ravens₿erg has PRs to allow Hardware Wallet to coinjoin automatically with Wasabi. Nothing better than this.

Payjoin v2Payjoin v2

Dan Gould has started a serie of PRs to implement this privacy-preserving two-party transaction mechanism into Wasabi too.

Coinjoin usability improvementsCoinjoin usability improvements

Coinjoiner has been working in discovery the coordinators list inside the Wasabi.

General maintainanceGeneral maintainance

Carti-it keeps the house in order, improves code everywhere, fixes bugs and he is a great support for me.

My next things to work onMy next things to work on

• Update the WabiSabi protocol. This is hasn't changed much since zkSNACKs days and it need to change to make it even more strict, faster and lighter.
• Allow Wasabi Scheme to broadcast transactions. The Wasabi scripting language should be able to manipulate the wallet to allow users to implement their own privacy-preserving tools.
• Make Wasabi a service: Separate Wasabi Daemon / Wasabi UI
• Improve payments in coinjoin to make it a first-class citizen in Wasabi and make it the preferred method of payments.
• Receive Silent Payments. For users who are okay depending on a central server again, receiving silent payments would be a great feature to add.

Well, these are just coders and features but there are also people helping with documentation, testing, giving support to users who need it, etc. Finally, coordinators' operators, known or unknown figures, play an important role here.

FutureFuture

The plan is to double-down our cypherpunk ethos, extract reusable components for other to use like nwabisabi, nostra and slip39, convert Wasabi client in a service that runs in block-only mode in your computer, help other cypherpunk projects to use Wasabi technology with nwabisabi for payments in coinjoin and hardware wallets with safer coinjoins and payments in coinjoins and make Wasabi a truly programmable wallet.

Wasabi had remained completely independent to commit it purpose thanks to not receiving money from any of the institutions that have been subsidizing Bitcoin and Nostr ecosystem development for years. This is great but only because the community helped the project immediately after we put the "Donate" button in the wallet.

Please help us to help you, join us.