Ashigaru, a fork of Samourai Wallet, has now been released

The Ashigaru Open Source Project is happy to announce the release of our mobile wallet which we forked from Samourai. The app is Tor only with an overhauled UI and UX flow for creating / restoring a wallet to prioritize connecting to your own Dojo server.

- Our website is available on both clearnet https://ashigaru.rs/ and as a hidden service but you need to use the Tor Browser to direct download the APK http://ashigaruprvm4u263aoj6wxnipc4jrhb2avjll4nnk255jkdmj2obqqd.onion/download/. We self host our repo and the code is reproducible.

- As Samourai's infrastructure has an uncertain future, we have launched our own PayNym directory with a fun, new "Pepehash" scheme at https://paynym.rs/ and as a hidden service at http://paynym25chftmsywv4v2r67agbrr62lcxagsf4tymbzpeeucucy2ivad.onion/

- Online, peer to peer coinjoins are available again to users using the Soroban messaging protocol in app

Further details on each of the above can be found on our website announcements page: https://ashigaru.rs/news/

We have no social media presence. If you like the project, please share the news and, for anyone on Keybase, please give our https://keybase.io/ashigarudev account a follow. This helps our users verify our public key by leveraging the web of trust.

Whirlpool isn't mentioned anywhere, are you offering coordination for that protocol too?

@OP
Based on the first sentence in your post where you say "our" wallet, can we rightly assume that you are part of the Ashigaru team and not just someone who is reporting the news here?
According to information I found on Twitter, the whirlpool functionality is removed for now. Do you have any plans to add it in the foreseeable future?

Good work !!! Congratulations.

We added it to our software wallets comparison: https://thebitcoinhole.com/software-wallets

Not opensorce wallet is bad for 0.0001 satochi balances, becuse sach wallets can be maked for scam.

Quote from: Kruw on September 21, 2024, 09:42:30 PM

Whirlpool isn't mentioned anywhere, are you offering coordination for that protocol too?

I also wonder about that. Although their website mentioned feature "Peer to Peer Coinjoins".

Quote from: COBRAS on September 23, 2024, 05:38:38 AM

Not opensorce wallet is bad for 0.0001 satochi balances, becuse sach wallets can be maked for scam.

What makes you say it's not open source wallet? The website clearly state they host their source code on http://ashicodepbnpvslzsl2bz7l2pwrjvajgumgac423pp3y2deprbnzz7id.onion/Ashigaru with open source licenses (GPLv3 and AGPL v3).

That's a nice job, but I would recommend that you guys also have a SimpleX chat account. Because they tend to be very private and other privacy services are using them too.

Like the others said, we need clarification on what kind of coinjoins this wallet is doing. Is it the same as before (whirlpool), or did you guys invent a new one (in that case, show us the whitepaper)?

Semi-Centralised protocol is useful but there is a problem of trusting the people you join in CoinJoin and running the Soroban server only by Ashigaru project will make it difficult to trust the service.
rs domain was used is the company known in Serbia and is there legislation that will allow this?

Quote from: Ashigaru on September 21, 2024, 07:03:43 PM

Is Ashigaru wallet a full fork of Samourai wallet or did you make some changes and improvements?
Some could see this as controversial move, but I think it's a good idea to have more privacy tools for bitcoin.

PS
For anyone who doesn't know what word Ashigaru (足軽,) means in Japanese language, this are infantry foot soldiers employed by the samurai class. Wink

It would be great if Sparrow could re-enable their whirlpool feature, allowing us to input a server URI where we could add yours. They removed it as soon as Samourai was shut down, which I think was a bit of a rushed decision. Could you tell us more about your whirlpool feature? Is it possible to connect via the mobile application?

Quote from: dkbit98 on September 27, 2024, 06:20:15 PM

Is Ashigaru wallet a full fork of Samourai wallet or did you make some changes and improvements?

In here (Tor link), it says that it's a fork of Samourai, with all commits and changes up to April 26th, 2024. It most certainly have other changes.

Quote from: dkbit98 on September 27, 2024, 06:20:15 PM

Is Ashigaru wallet a full fork of Samourai wallet or did you make some changes and improvements?

If I am understanding the OP correctly, it seems like they implemented my Samourai Improvement Proposal and disabled all of the data collecting functions that were enabled by default in the original Samourai Wallet:

Quote from: Ashigaru on September 21, 2024, 07:03:43 PM

The app is Tor only with an overhauled UI and UX flow for creating / restoring a wallet to prioritize connecting to your own Dojo server.

What’s happening with this project?

Just an announcement, the OP has vanished, and there’s been no feedback shared by anyone.

Quote from: CreepyUncleJoe on October 31, 2024, 11:55:52 PM

What’s happening with this project?

Just an announcement, the OP has vanished, and there’s been no feedback shared by anyone.

Ahsigaru project is very much alive, but developers probably decided to keep it under the radar, and I don't see them being much active in social media also.
You can follow all the news on their website, last update was released few days ago:
https://ashigaru.rs/news/

Are there any members that can vouch for this service after downloading and using the software?

there's some new news from the devs... a new version 1.2.0 of the Ashigaru mobile wallet was released yesterday!
unfortunately, there isn't a detailed blog post about this version in the news section yet but hopefully one will follow soon.
is there anyone here who still uses this wallet?

https://ashigaru.rs/download/#:~:text=ashigaru%20mobile

Quote from: cygan on November 05, 2026, 06:30:00 PM

I have not tested it yet, I need to set up the full node on a new PC + ronindojo. I need to take a few days to configure everything correctly, but I'm glad that its development is still active, despite a long period without new releases.

I'm glad that someone took over Samourai's legacy, it would be a shame for a wallet with so many features to fall into oblivion. That's why this was one of the most incredible forks I've ever seen (even without having tested it personally). I wonder if anyone on the forum has run it as well to give feedbacks.

Quote from: Forsyth Jones on November 05, 2026, 08:45:49 PM

I wonder if anyone on the forum has run it as well to give feedbacks.

1440000bytes found a bug in Ashigaru/Samourai that allows a Stonewallx2 collaborator to steal from their peer: https://x.com/1440000bytes/status/2118036893799792872

Quote from: cygan on November 05, 2026, 06:30:00 PM

unfortunately, there isn't a detailed blog post about this version in the news section yet but hopefully one will follow soon.

The code repository should have details about the update but I can't seem to access it.

I've tried multiple different Tor circuits to see if it's just on my end, but it's still refusing the connection.
Their main onion website is working just fine.

Quote from: cygan on November 05, 2026, 06:30:00 PM

is there anyone here who still uses this wallet?

I totally forget about this wallet, unless you share about latest version. I hesitate to actually use wallet that barely used or discussed by other people, but i wonder how popular is this wallet outside of this forum.

Quote from: nc50lc on Today at 05:54:31 AM

Quote from: cygan on November 05, 2026, 06:30:00 PM

unfortunately, there isn't a detailed blog post about this version in the news section yet but hopefully one will follow soon.

Same, i can't access link to the code repository, even when other .onion website can be accessed normally.