ZIPHERX

Privacy is not a crime

> WHAT IS THIS?

ZipherX is a shielded-only cryptocurrency wallet for Zclassic (ZCL). No transparent addresses. No trusted servers. No blockchain analytics. Just pure, unadulterated financial privacy.

Built for iOS and macOS with the paranoid in mind. Your keys live in the Secure Enclave. Your proofs are generated locally. Your transactions are verified by 8+ peers with Byzantine consensus. Your balance is nobody's business but yours.

Swift + Rust. librustzcash for Sapling cryptography. Arti for embedded Tor. SQLCipher for encrypted storage. AES-256-GCM for field-level encryption.

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world." โ€” Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993)
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SHIELDED ONLY

t-addresses? Never heard of them. z-to-z only. Sapling proofs. Zero transparent leaks.

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SECURE ENCLAVE

Your spending key lives in hardware. AES-256-GCM encryption. Keys never extracted to Swift memory.

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iOS + macOS

iOS 15+ with Face ID. macOS 12+ with embedded zclassicd. Same codebase. Same privacy.

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PARALLEL SCANNING

Rayon-powered decryption. 6.7x faster note discovery. ~1M CMU commitment tree pre-indexed.

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LOCAL PROOFS

Sapling zk-SNARKs generated on-device. ~30 seconds. Proof verification in ~50ms. Trust math.

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MULTI-PEER CONSENSUS

8+ random peers. 5/8 Byzantine tolerance. 7-day auto-ban for malicious actors. No trusted server.

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EMBEDDED TOR

Arti router built-in. SOCKS5 proxy. Persistent .onion hidden service. IP privacy by default.

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BIOMETRIC AUTH

Face ID / Touch ID. 30-second auto-lock. Passcode fallback. Field-level database encryption.

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CYPHERPUNK CHAT

P2P encrypted messaging over Tor. X25519 + ChaChaPoly. Payment requests in-chat. Read receipts. Offline queue.

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PAY IN CHAT

Request and send ZCL within conversations. One-tap payment. TX confirmation receipts. No copy-paste addresses.

// HOW WE'RE DIFFERENT

OTHER WALLETS

  • Transparent addresses enabled by default
  • Lightwalletd dependency (trusted server)
  • Single server = single point of failure
  • Keys in software-only storage
  • Server generates your proofs
  • IP address exposed to server

ZIPHERX

  • Shielded only. z-to-z. No exceptions.
  • Direct P2P with 8+ peers
  • 5/8 Byzantine consensus - no single trust
  • Secure Enclave hardware protection
  • Local Sapling proof generation
  • Embedded Tor with .onion service

zipherx $ send --to zs1... --amount 42.0

Building zero-knowledge proof...

Generating spend description...

Creating output description...

Signing transaction...

โœ“ Transaction broadcast to network

txid: b001c6c2a66fcfd002373210f26c596595203d7b

zipherx $ _

> TECH SPECS

Cryptography Sapling (Groth16 zk-SNARKs, BLS12-381)
Key Derivation ZIP-32 HD Wallets (IVK, OVK, spending key)
Mnemonic BIP-39 (24 words, PBKDF2-SHA512)
Encryption AES-256-GCM (12-byte nonce, 16-byte tag)
Database SQLCipher 4.5+ with field-level encryption
Network Zclassic P2P mainnet (port 8033)
Consensus Buttercup (branch ID: 0x930b540d)
Sapling Activation Block 476,969
Peer Consensus 8+ peers, 5/8 Byzantine tolerance
Transaction Fee 0.0001 ZCL (10,000 zatoshis)
Dust Threshold 10,000 zatoshis minimum
Proof Time ~30 seconds on iPhone
Proof Verification ~50ms per proof (local)
Commitment Tree ~1M CMUs pre-indexed (GitHub boost)
Memo Size 512 bytes encrypted per TX
iOS Minimum iOS 15.0+ (Secure Enclave: iPhone 8+)
macOS Minimum macOS 12.0+ (embedded zclassicd)
Tor Arti (Rust) with .onion hidden service
PoW Verification Equihash(192,7) full validation (post-Bubbles)
Chat Encryption X25519 key exchange + ChaChaPoly (AEAD)
Chat Port 8034 (via Tor hidden service)
Chat Features Payment requests, read receipts, offline queue, TTL

> PROJECT STATS

Built by @victorlux001 + Claude in ~1 month.
Traditional estimate: 12-18 months, $500K-$1M, team of 5-8 engineers.

Swift Code ~76,000 lines (80 files)
Rust FFI ~10,000 lines (librustzcash bindings)
Total Original Code ~87,000 lines
Bug Fixes 315+ tracked fixes (FIX #001 โ†’ #315)
Security Fixes 28 vulnerabilities patched (VUL-001 โ†’ VUL-028)
Unit Tests 9 test functions (~150 lines)
Traditional Cost $500K - $1M USD (5-8 FTE, 12-18 months)
Degen Cost ~$200/month Claude Pro + insomnia
ROI โˆž% (priceless cypherpunk satisfaction)

* zclassic-fork (C++ node) not included - external Zcash/Bitcoin code bundled for macOS full node mode.

// A NOTE TO OUR FRIENDS AT ECC & ZASHI

Hey team! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Remember when you said mobile Sapling was "too complex"? We took that personally. Built librustzcash FFI bindings in Swift. Added Secure Enclave key storage. Embedded Tor via Arti. No trusted server required.

Multi-peer consensus? 8+ peers with 5/8 Byzantine tolerance. Parallel note decryption? 6.7x faster with Rayon. Field-level encryption? AES-256-GCM on every sensitive field. ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

P.S. - Our ~1M CMU tree loads from GitHub boost files. No lightwalletd. No AWS. Just P2P and math.

> WHY ZCLASSIC?

Because some of us remember what Zcash was supposed to be before the founders reward, before the dev fund votes, before the "transparent pool is fine actually" narrative.

Zclassic is Zcash without the baggage. Same cryptography. Same privacy. No 20% tax to fund debates about whether privacy matters.

(Also, have you seen ZCL's market cap? There's something poetic about building serious privacy tech for a coin that most people forgot exists.)