Lichen

Lichen is an Ethereum utility that runs locally on your desktop with a focus on privacy and security.

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Features

• Account wallet credentials are stored encrypted and decrypted only when Lichen is in use and unlocked by the account key.

• Create multiple accounts.

• Send Ether.

• Lookup other addresses if multiple were created.

• Soon to be cross-platform.

• Works as an auto-signer if unlocked for other desktop app integrations.

• Stay tuned for more exciting features.

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Install from .deb file release

Steps to install

• Download the deb file from the latest release.

https://github.com/B3nac/Lichen/releases

• Run the install command.

sudo dpkg -i lichen-release

• Start Lichen from /usr/bin/Lichen or from Lichen app shortcut via the Show Applications menu.

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Setup from source

Dependencies for Ubuntu 20.04.

sudo apt install build-essential git pkg-config python3-dev python3-venv libgirepository1.0-dev libcairo2-dev gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 libcanberra-gtk3-module

I highly recommended creating a virtual environment to avoid dependency conflicts.

python3 -m venv envname

Once the venv is created source it in order to install the dependencies to that environment.

source path/to/envname/bin/activate

Install briefcase and required dependencies.

pip install briefcase Flask web3 cyptography Flask-WTF toga

Start app in Dev mode.

briefcase dev

Build and run the app.

briefcase run

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Customize default settings

You can customize the default network and ethereum account with a config.ini file. If you don't have a config.ini file LichenWallet will use the first public address created as the default address.

Example config.ini file:

[DEFAULT]

network = https://goerli-rollup.arbitrum.io/rpc
default_address = your_public_ethereum_address
ens_mainnet_node = your_mainnet_node_url

Preview screenshot

Supporting development

TBD.