I’m excited to announce that the public beta of the zec-qt-wallet Android app is here! New in this version is the ability to connect your Android App and your desktop zec-qt-wallet simply by scanning a QR Code, and not messing with any firewalls, port forwards or usernames / passwords.

To get started, please see the README and download the binaries from the releases page

Here’s a quick video walkthrough:

Easy connections

This new feature, which is opt-in, uses a wormhole service hosted by zec-qt-wallet to route fully encrypted communication between your phone and your desktop zec-qt-wallet node. Here’s an illustration of how this works: More details here



To get started, please see the README and download the binaries from the releases page

Couple of things to note: