diff --git a/data/projects/dana-wallet.mdx b/data/projects/dana-wallet.mdx new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e126ee2ef --- /dev/null +++ b/data/projects/dana-wallet.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: 'Dana Wallet' +dateAdded: '2026-05-12' +summary: 'A mobile Bitcoin wallet built around silent payments, BIP353 addresses, and local scanning for private on-chain receiving.' +nym: 'cygnet3' +website: 'https://danawallet.app/' +donationLink: 'https://github.com/cygnet3/dana?tab=readme-ov-file#donate-to-dana' +coverImage: '/static/images/projects/dana-wallet.webp' +darkCoverImage: '/static/images/projects/dana-wallet-dark.webp' +git: 'https://github.com/cygnet3/dana' +nostr: 'npub17vjlv6u4dg2ypyy5je9zc3lpeyfrnfrpmzgwt8v4rc289p2m79cqepwz5q' +zapstore: 'https://zapstore.dev/apps/dev.silentpayments.danawallet' +tags: ['Bitcoin', 'Privacy', 'Wallet', 'Mobile'] +fund: general +announcementLink: '/blog/fifteenth-wave-of-bitcoin-grants#dana-wallet' +--- + +Dana Wallet is a mobile Bitcoin wallet designed around [silent payments][silent-payments] and [BIP353](/topics/bip-353)-style identifiers like `yourname@danawallet.app`. Instead of handing out reusable receive addresses, it gives users a more familiar payment flow while still deriving fresh on-chain outputs for each payment. The wallet discovers incoming payments through local scanning over a [BIP158](/topics/bip-158)-like structure, which helps keep address ownership private from outside servers. + +The project combines the wallet itself with the surrounding pieces needed to make that flow usable in practice: Dana address registration, app distribution through GitHub releases, [Zapstore](/projects/zapstore), and a self-hosted [F-Droid repository][fdroid], plus backend work around the [Blindbit oracle][blindbit-oracle] infrastructure. The current public releases are still marked experimental, but the project has already shipped multiple production-oriented improvements across the wallet, its transaction storage, and its scanning stack. + +## Why fund it? + +Dana Wallet is working on a hard part of Bitcoin UX. Silent payments offer stronger on-chain privacy, but they only matter to regular users if the wallet experience is simple, understandable, and reliable on a phone. Dana focuses on that last mile: clean receiving flows, human-readable identifiers, local scanning, and the engineering work needed to turn a promising protocol into something people can actually use. + +OpenSats included Dana Wallet in the [fifteenth wave of Bitcoin grants][grant]. That support is helping move the wallet toward broader public use. + +## What's next? + +Recent grant reports show steady progress toward a more usable, stable wallet: claimable Dana addresses, a contact list, local transaction storage in SQLite, offline wallet creation, multiple app flavors on the project's F-Droid repo, and releases through [v0.7.3][release]. The next steps include faster launch times, background syncing, a Blindbit V2 backend, an official F-Droid release, iOS investigation, and a more complete project website. + +If you want to dig deeper, start with the [project site][site], the [main repository][repo], the [grant announcement][grant], or the [F-Droid repository][fdroid]. + +[blindbit-oracle]: https://github.com/setavenger/blindbit-oracle +[fdroid]: https://fdroid.danawallet.app/fdroid/repo/ +[grant]: /blog/fifteenth-wave-of-bitcoin-grants#dana-wallet +[release]: https://github.com/cygnet3/dana/releases/tag/v0.7.3 +[repo]: https://github.com/cygnet3/dana +[silent-payments]: /topics/silent-payments +[site]: https://danawallet.app/ diff --git a/public/static/images/projects/dana-wallet-dark.webp b/public/static/images/projects/dana-wallet-dark.webp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9315d69f4 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/static/images/projects/dana-wallet-dark.webp differ diff --git a/public/static/images/projects/dana-wallet.webp b/public/static/images/projects/dana-wallet.webp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6646bbe54 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/static/images/projects/dana-wallet.webp differ