It's official - Lightning is (finally) here ⚡️
With today’s launch of Lightning, we’ll walk through the features that make Cake Wallet’s Lightning integration stand out from the pack.
We promise the wait has been worth it.
Text your friends bitcoin ⚡️
Introducing @radarchat, the new app from the team behind @cakewallet: an end-to-end encrypted messenger with instant, non-custodial bitcoin built in.
Sending sats as easy as sending a message. Value moving like information.
Powered by the Breez SDK.
SO excited to reveal Radar to the world today!
We’ve been working on all of the moving parts of this launch for many months, but the core of Radar is simple. Why are the two most private things we do every day - who we talk to and what we pay for - always disconnected and surveilled?
Radar solves this by building on top of Signal’s amazing messaging protocol and network while implementing payments over Bitcoin. All of your existing Signal contacts come with you, but everyone who joins Radar can send and receive payments at a tap. This combination makes sending money to friends and family, supporting an activist or journalist, or funding a political dissident as easy as sending a message.
No need to juggle separate apps, and now we can get Bitcoin into the hands of people who just simply want a good way to transfer value. No custodians, no banks, just permissionless freedom money.
It's been a blast getting to break out beyond "just" the wallet space, and build a tool that we see a huge need for from human rights groups to "normies" and everything in between.
I'll break down more on the why we made the choices we did throughout the week on a host of podcasts, so keep an eye out for those if you want to dive deeper!
In the meantime, take a minute and go check out @RadarChat 🫡
Today we are launching @RadarChat, a messaging app that combines Signal's encryption with built-in Bitcoin Lightning payments, and because it's a Signal fork, you can keep messaging your existing Signal contacts from day one. No convincing friends to switch apps.
The idea: you can already message someone privately, so why bounce out to Venmo or Cash App and hand your financial info to a third party every time you want to send money? Radar keeps both in one place. Send a message, send sats, all in the same conversation.
What it does:
✅Works with your Signal contacts - it's a Signal fork, so the messaging side inherits Signal's encryption model and interoperates with the Signal network.
✅Private by default - Signal’s end-to-end encrypted messaging.
✅Bitcoin Lightning under the hood - fast, cheap settlement, non-custodial. Send within chats or externally. You can just use it as your Bitcoin wallet!
✅Your seed phrase is encrypted and saved on Signal servers. Lose your phone or app? Just restore Radar with our phone number as you normally do, and get your wallet back! (Although we still recommend that you write down your seed phrase)
The privacy of Signal. The convenience of instant private Bitcoin Lightning payments.
Backed by @egodeathcapital and built by the team that brought you @cakewallet
It's live now. I'd love feedback from this community, so give it a try and tell me what works and what doesn't.
You can download it now on the Apple App Store now and Google Play soon. Learn more at https://t.co/ZzIX5V7gs7!
We’ve been building self-custodial payments with cutting-edge financial privacy for the last eight years, and now it’s time to bring that expertise to a new arena.
Meet Radar, where we’ve combined the best of Signal with the best of Bitcoin Lightning!
Your messages. Your Bitcoin. Together, at last.
Radar brings private messaging and self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning together in one seamless experience, and because it's built on Signal's incredible network - the people you already talk to come with you.