No accounts. No analytics. No newsletter.
The wallet talks to Ravencoin network nodes. That's it. The rest of this page documents what that means in practice and what the open-source process looks like.
No telemetry
The wallet does not send usage data, identifiers, or crash logs anywhere by default.
Configurable servers
Pick the node servers the wallet talks to, including your own. Defaults are listed and editable.
Local-only storage
Wallet files, seed phrases, and history stay on your machine. Nothing is synced to a remote backend.
Open source
Released under a permissive license with reproducible builds. The public source repository link will be added here once it goes live.
What the wallet sees and what it shares.
A wallet's privacy properties are best described concretely: who learns what, when. For Electrum RVN the answer is short — the Ravencoin servers you connect to see your IP address and the addresses you ask about, and nobody else sees anything. There is no second-party analytics, no advertising SDK, no behavioural tracking, and no account.
On launch the wallet opens a connection to one or more Ravencoin servers from the configured list. That is the only outbound traffic by default.
Those servers see your IP address and the addresses your wallet asks about, the same way any light client does. They cannot see your seed, your wallet password, your other addresses, or your offline activity. For stronger privacy, point the wallet at your own node and skip public servers entirely, or run the wallet behind Tor so the server sees a Tor exit address rather than your real IP.
- Outbound by default: Ravencoin network servers only.
- Server learns: your IP and the addresses you query.
- Server does not learn: your seed, password, or local files.
- Run your own node for maximum trust minimisation.
- Run the wallet over Tor to hide the IP from the server.
Address-rotation hygiene
Every receiving address you generate belongs to the same wallet and recovers from the same seed. Rotating addresses per payment is the simplest privacy improvement available — it costs nothing, and it stops the public ledger from clustering your activity under a single address. Electrum RVN generates fresh addresses on demand from the Receive tab; use one.
Source is public. The build process is reproducible — anyone with the source can rebuild the binaries and confirm they match the ones distributed on the download page. Issues and pull requests are handled in the open; there is no closed beta and no pre-release binaries shipped outside the public release channel.
We don't collect an email address, because there is no account. We don't collect a name, because there is no account. We don't keep analytics on which buttons you click, because the wallet does not phone home. We don't share data with third parties, because there is no data to share. None of this requires you to take our word for it — the source is public and the wallet's outbound connections can be observed with any network-monitoring tool.
What your network sees when you use the wallet
By default the wallet connects to a small set of public Electrum-style servers to fetch balances and history. Those servers see the public addresses they're asked about, but not which user is asking — and they don't see private keys, seeds, or your IP if you route through Tor. For stronger guarantees, run your own server backed by a local Ravencoin Core node; the wallet only ever talks to your machine.
A non-custodial wallet is a privacy primitive, not a privacy product. Your on-chain history is public regardless of which wallet built the transactions, your IP is exposed unless you take steps to hide it, and the addresses you re-use over time create a behavioural fingerprint. The defaults shipped with Electrum RVN are sane; the rest is operational hygiene.
Frequently asked
Continue with Electrum RVN
- Electrum RVN security — the threat model behind the privacy stance
- wallet security best practices — plain-language overview
- open source Ravencoin wallet — the verified open-source build
Run your own Ravencoin wallet.
Open-source, lightweight, and built for the desktop user who wants real control over keys and assets. Download the wallet directly from our download page — signed installers for every operating system.