Grin - Basic Wallet

Wallet Files

A Grin wallet maintains its state in the following files -

wallet.seed  # *** passphrase protected seed file (keep this private) ***
wallet.dat   # wallet outputs (both spent and unspent)
wallet.lock  # lock file, prevents multiple processes writing to wallet.dat

By default Grin will look for these in the current working directory.

Basic Wallet Commands

grin wallet --help will display usage info about the following.

grin wallet init

Before using a wallet a new seed file wallet.seed needs to be generated via grin wallet init -

grin wallet init
Generating wallet seed file at: ./wallet.seed

grin wallet info

Some (very) basic information about current wallet outputs can be displayed with grin wallet info -

grin wallet -p "password" info
Using wallet seed file at: ./wallet.seed
Outputs -
key_id, height, lock_height, status, spendable?, coinbase?, value
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96805837571719c692b6, 21, 24, Spent, false, true, 50000000000
...

grin wallet listen

Starts a listening wallet server. This is needed for the grin wallet send -d <destination wallet server> command to work.

grin wallet send

Builds a transaction to send someone some coins. Creates and outputs a transaction.

add -d to request a destination wallet from the given server address and port, and then push the transaction to the network
add -s to choose between selection strategies. If you're experimenting, or the destination is not reliable, it is currently recommendable to use the strategy smallest

grin wallet receive

Replaced by listen (see above). The receive command might later be recycled to actively accept one or several specific transactions.

grin wallet burn

TESTING ONLY: Burns the provided amount to a known key. Similar to send but burns an output to allow single-party transactions.

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