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Abstract

eigenwallet is an ambitious community effort to build the Monero wallet for the future.
It was previously known as UnstoppableSwap.
https://github.com/eigenwallet/wallet.


What?

eigenwallet is an ambitious effort to combine the frontier of crypto privacy technology in a neat user-friendly packaging and make it accessible to all.

eigenwallet shares a tech stack with upcoming Monero tech (Rust + Libp2p). It's perfectly positioned to integrate these in the future:

Why?

To understand what we are building (and why) we must hold a few truths to be non-negotiable.

(1) The primary use case for crypto is to be:

(2) Bitcoin is the most prominent attempt at establishing such a system. Having gained widespread acceptance, it is here to stay for a while. It will continue to be acquirable to most people on this planet for the foreseeable future.

(3) Privacy is the most important aspect of any peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Without it fungibility cannot be achieved. Bitcoin's public ledger severely lacks in this regard.

(4) Monero is currently the best attempt at a better system. It is the best choice because it:

(5) Monero is under constant attack. It lives under the constant threat of delistings. It is not unreasonable to assume that it will be banned from most exchanges within the next 3-5 years6.

(6) We cannot rely on centralized exchanges. Governments will continue to crack down against Monero7. Centralized entities will fold under pressure because they do not want to go to prison, and they need to stay profitable. This will impact the ability to onboard new users to the network if the community does not develop a reliable onramp that does not rely on the continued functioning of these institutions.

Therefore any onramp must:

The goal of eigenwallet is to build exactly that onramp. In the process we will be building a great wallet as well.

Why "eigenwallet"?

1. Nakamoto, Satoshi. "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf. October 31, 2008.

2. koe, Kurt M. Alonso, Sarang Noether. "Zero to Monero: Second Edition - A Technical Guide to a Private Digital Currency; for Beginners, Amateurs, and Experts." https://www.getmonero.org/library/Zero-to-Monero-2-0-0.pdf. April 4, 2020.

https://gist.github.com/kayabaNerve/0e1f7719e5797c826b87249f21ab6f86. "This proposes an extension to FCMPs to make them a drop-in replacement for the existing CLSAG. In order to be such a replacement, the proof must handle membership (inherent to FCMPs), spend authorization, and linkability."

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-xmr-zec.html. Historical transaction data demonstrating Monero's significantly higher daily transaction volume compared to other privacy-focused cryptocurrencies.

5. Chainalysis Team. "Darknet market and fraud shop BTC revenues decline amid years-long international law enforcement disruption." https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/darknet-markets-2025/. May 16, 2025. "As international authorities have disrupted DNMs large and small in the last few years, cybercriminals and drug dealers have learned firsthand the consequences of running BTC-accepting DNMs given the currency's inherent transparency. Many operators have since moved to accepting only Monero (XMR), a privacy coin with features designed to boost anonymity and reduce traceability."

6. Evidence of ongoing exchange delistings includes: OKX delisting Monero, Zcash, and Dash (https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-okex-delisting-monero-dash-privacy-cryptos-over-fatf-demands), Upbit delisting privacy coins (https://cointelegraph.com/news/upbit-exchange-delists-privacy-coins-due-to-money-laundering-concerns), BitBay delisting Monero (https://de.cointelegraph.com/news/bitbay-crypto-exchange-to-delist-monero-due-to-money-laundering-concerns), Bittrex delisting privacy coins (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/01/01/bittrex-to-delist-privacy-coins-monero-dash-and-zcash), Kraken restricting Monero for UK customers (https://cointelegraph.com/news/kraken-to-delist-monero-for-uk-customers-by-the-end-of-november), Huobi delisting privacy coins (https://cointelegraph.com/news/huobi-to-delist-monero-and-other-privacy-coins-citing-regulatory-pressures), and Binance temporary delisting threats (https://cointelegraph.com/news/monero-drops-multi-month-lows-binance-delisting). https://support.kraken.com/articles/support-for-monero-xmr-in-europe.

7. Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2024 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1624/oj/eng. This comprehensive EU regulation establishes strict anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing requirements that significantly impact the regulatory environment for privacy-focused cryptocurrencies and the exchanges that handle them.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/marketcap-xmr-zec.html. Market capitalization data demonstrates Monero's significantly higher market valuation compared to other major privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, indicating stronger market confidence and adoption.

9. The Tor Project. "Arti: A Tor implementation in Rust." https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/core/arti/about/. "Arti is designed from the ground up to work as a modular, embeddable library that other applications can use."

10. Cuprate. "Cuprate: An upcoming experimental, modern, and secure Monero node." https://cuprate.org/. "Discover the documentation of our Rust-written project, as well as documentation on monerod and the Monero protocol."

https://github.com/grease-xmr/grease.

12. serai-dex. "Serai DEX." https://github.com/serai-dex/serai.