Arkade Wallet — connecting to the operator…
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Breakdown
Addresses
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Actions
Send (off-chain, instant)
Pay a Lightning invoice
Atomic swap via the local bridge: your Ark sats are locked in a VHTLC, the bridge pays the invoice from its Lightning node, and can only claim the sats by proving the payment (preimage). The contract address is re-verified locally before anything is sent, and the bridge probes the Lightning route first: no route, nothing locked. Should the payment still fail, the bridge co-signs a cooperative refund right away.
Failed payments — sats still locked in a VHTLC. The bridge co-signs the refund as soon as its Lightning node reports the payment as definitively failed; no need to wait for the CLTV window.
Receive via Lightning — the bridge issues a hold invoice on a secret only you hold. Once it is paid, it locks the sats in a VHTLC that you claim by revealing the secret — which, at that same instant, lets it settle the invoice.
Pay this hold invoice from your own Lightning wallet (it stays held until you claim):
Bitcoin on-chain (outside the operator)
These sats live on the chain, not with your operator: no operator fees, no expiry, no renewal. In return, every send is a real Bitcoin transaction — slow and costly.
Real sats, real fees: an on-chain send is final once broadcast and the network fee is deducted on top of the amount. Double-check the address.
Withdraw on-chain (collaborative offboard)
Cooperative exit: the operator includes an on-chain output in a round. No timelock delay, no on-chain sats required up front — fees are taken out of the withdrawn amount.
Exit backup — plan B without the operator
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Re-capture after every receive: a package only covers the VTXOs that existed at capture time.
Identity — mnemonic & maintenance
Encrypted backup and offline recovery — include swap secrets and saved recovery data.
Your mnemonic is the only thing that controls your funds. It lives in this browser only: lose it and the sats are unreachable. This is the … wallet — each network keeps its own mnemonic in this browser; neither is ever reused on the other.
Restore an existing wallet — paste its 12 or 24 words:
A deposit left too long on the boarding address sees its window expire: the operator refuses it for good. This sweep spends it through the unilateral path (without the operator) to a fresh boarding address, which restarts the clock:
After a change on the operator side, the local cache can be stale and block operations. This button refreshes synchronization while keeping your mnemonic and recovery data:
Transaction history
Every movement, across all layers: Ark off-chain, Bitcoin on-chain, and Lightning swaps.