V6.0 Changes

Starting from v6.0

• CLI get_address --offline switch is renamed to --offline_count
• default address generated by the UI is an offline address that includes 1 offline voucher (enables 1 offline payment). This address is equivalent to the get_address --ofline_count 1 in CLI
• all offline addresses by default trigger an online regular transaction if used in CLI send without the --offline switch
• to make an offline payment via the send command with the offline address the --offline switch should be added

Text below includes the changes described in this section. For CLI instructions before v6.0 refer the Lelantus CLI Historical page.

Overview

Conceptually, Lelantus is a mean which allows to avoid UXTO linkability in transactions graph. To make UTXOs unlinked user should insert regular BEAM UTXO into shielded pool, converting these UTXOs into shielded UTXOs and then, after some time extract them back as unlinked UTXOs. Shielded UTXO belonging to the wallet could be detected by the node with owner key (as regular utxo), and the user can use this info to extract these coins back. We are trying to hide the details of this process from the user, extracting from the shielded pool is performed automatically when user sends beams, it influences the fee, but the user shouldn't think about unlinking.

To send BEAMs through Lelantus we introduced three types of addresses:

• offline
• max privacy
• public offline

All of these addresses could be used with send command and should be passed via -r parameter

Offline address

It allows sending BEAMs without interactions with the receiver. It is a very long base58 string, which contains embedded information for 10 payments(in UI), also it has SBBS address of the receiver, so, in the case when the receiver becomes online, the sender could get info for more payments.

To generate this type of address with 10 embedded payments use

./beam-wallet get_address --offline_count=10

Max privacy address

This address allows to make only one payment, there is no ability to get more payments, and there is a guaranty that shielded coins received by sending on this address will be extracted in the correct moment to achieve the max privacy effect. To generate a new max privacy address use

./beam-wallet get_address --max_privacy 

Public offline address

This type of address is intended to be used to receive donations. It is permanent, relatively short, and provides less privacy comparing with others, the sender has an ability to detect if the sent shielded coin has been spent. This type of address could be obtained with the following command:

./beam-wallet get_address --public_offline 

Offline payments

With Lelantus we are able to without need to be online, this is also known as one-side payments. To make them we need to accomplish the following steps:

Receiver

1. Receiver have to generate a token with the needed quantity of vouchers (allowed number of payments)

   ./beam-wallet get_address --offline_count=3 
   

2. Send this token to the sender, and go offline

Sender

1. Sender can use the received token with the --offline switch to make payments as many times as many vouchers this token has. If the --ofline switch is not specified, regular online transaction would be executed

   ./beam_wallet send -r <token> --offline -n <node address> -a <amount> -f <fee>
   

Receiver

1. Receiver after a while should check if he has shielded UTXOs

   ./beam_wallet info
   

   
   the shielded coins has type shld

   |    ID |           BEAM |          GROTH | Maturity           | Status               | Type     |
      14724               34                0   95849                [Spent]                shld
      14725                7                0   95873                [Spent]                shld
   

2. Also a new transaction record should appear with status received max privacy, received offline or received public offline, depending od what address type was used

   ./beam_wallet info --tx_history
   

   2020.11.14 12:52:22    incoming                                     5   received offline        c714875164c8444cb12f90c4353fa1f6
   2020.10.30 18:13:22    incoming                                     1   received max privacy    7a6dbf11fa6649e39992c41c349ab6ad
   2020.10.30 17:57:22    incoming                                     4   received max privacy    d5f1b5acee474b4cb187321431040306
   2020.10.30 11:15:22    incoming                                     2   received public offline