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Is Cake Wallet Open Source?

Yes. Cake Wallet is open source under permissive licensing. Here is what that means and how to verify.

Cake Wallet is open source. The source code is published on GitHub and licensed under permissive open-source terms. The wallet is built by Cake Labs LLC. Anyone can read the code, build the wallet from source, fork it, or audit specific behavior.

This is a meaningful claim for a privacy wallet. The opposite (closed-source binary) means trusting the maintainer that the wallet does what it says. Open source means anyone with the relevant expertise can verify behavior — that the wallet does not phone home with seed material, does not log addresses to a server, does not contain backdoors.

How to verify

  1. Visit the Cake Wallet GitHub repository (search "cake wallet" on github.com to find the official repo — we do not link external sites by policy).
  2. Inspect the latest release tag's source code.
  3. For maximum verification: build the wallet from source on your own machine and compare the binary to the official release. Reproducible builds are the gold standard.
  4. Read the licensing file to confirm the terms.

For users without programming background: the practical verification is "is the code public, has it been reviewed by people you trust, has it been audited." The Cake Wallet code is public and has years of community review. That is the typical bar.

What being open source does NOT mean

  • It does not mean the wallet has been formally audited (though Cake has had some review). Open source is a precondition for auditability, not a substitute for audit.
  • It does not mean the wallet is bug-free.
  • It does not mean every release was independently verified — you still need to verify the binary matches a known-good source build.
  • It does not mean the wallet is custodial or non-custodial (Cake is non-custodial, separately from being open source).

Same posture, different chain

Zano Wallet is also open source. Same posture — code is publicly inspectable and source is published alongside every release so users can build from source if they choose.

The difference is the chain. Cake supports Monero, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Solana, Ethereum, and Zano on mobile. Zano Wallet supports Zano only, on desktop. If you specifically want Zano on desktop with full open-source verifiability, that is what we built.

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