Cashu — Now on Desktop.

A native wallet for Desktop, iPhone and Android. Hold bearer ecash on your device, send with a tap, redeem to any Lightning address. No account.

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See everything at a glance.

Your full transaction history, all your mints, and every token — visible on one screen. No more squinting at a phone.

Built for speed.

Keyboard shortcuts for every action. Receive in one keystroke, send in two, backup in three. Your hands never leave the keyboard.

Account wallets see everything.

Every send, every receive, every contact, tied to a single account in someone else's database. A change of policy is a change of access.

MINT

✓ VALID Mint sees nothing else.

CUSTODIAN

ID 0x42a8… TO @alice $50.00 10:42:31 Custodian sees all of it.

iMessage, SMS, Bluetooth, your group chat.

Ecash is just text. Anywhere you can paste a string (a chat, an SMS, a Bluetooth share), you can send money. No app to install on their end.

iMessage thread: a long Cashu token pasted in reply to 'dinner last night was $38 each'

All your mints. One dashboard.

Connect to multiple mints and see every balance in one place. Swap between them instantly. Desktop gives you the screen real estate phones cannot.

Backups that actually work.

Export encrypted backups to your file system. Drag and drop to restore. Manage seed phrases with proper security.

Never miss a payment.

Native desktop notifications pop up the moment sats arrive. Whether you are working or browsing — you will know instantly.

Ready for business.

Turn any desktop into a point-of-sale. Display QR codes for customers to scan. Accept Lightning and ecash payments side by side.

FAQs

The mint signs your ecash blind, without seeing what it's signing, so it can't link your withdrawal to your later spend. Peer-to-peer sends, over iMessage, NFC, or any chat, never touch the mint, leaving no transaction graph to trace. Minting or melting to Lightning does reveal amount and timing.

You lose the ecash minted there. The protocol does not solve this. Mitigate by choosing mints with known operators, holding small amounts per mint, and redeeming regularly to a Lightning wallet you control.

Account-based wallets hold a balance in a database tied to your identity and can rate-limit, suspend, or geofence you. A Cashu mint also holds bitcoin, but it issues you blinded bearer ecash instead of an account balance. You can swap to another mint, send ecash peer-to-peer, or withdraw to any Lightning address, without permission.

Three ways. cashu.me derives ecash from a 12-word BIP39 seed, the same kind Bitcoin wallets use. Mint URLs and settings export as an encrypted file. Either restores on any device. There's also an experimental iCloud backup that syncs an encrypted copy automatically; it's new and unproven, so don't rely on it alone yet. Ecash is a bearer instrument: possession of the backup means possession of the funds. Store accordingly.