software
Farol
Farol means lighthouse. The product line is simple: your wallet, your node. No cloud custody story, no mainnet promise, no fake balance screen.
- kind
- software
- started
- by 2026
- state
- in progress · testnet only
A testnet Cardano wallet for people who want the wallet to talk to their own node.
why
A calm UI over real wallet plumbing.
A lot of wallet prototypes either hide the node completely or expose every backend detail as debug noise.
Farol tries the middle ground: a restrained interface over real cardano-wallet endpoints, with the dangerous parts labeled and gated.
shape
Desktop first, testnet first.
It talks to cardano-wallet and a local cardano-node socket. Wallet list, restore, balances, addresses, transactions, fee estimates, send flow, staking, settings, explorer links, and Farol Connect are wired through real flows.
state
The safety boundary is part of the product.
Farol is preprod and testnet only for now. That is not a footnote. It is the line that keeps the app honest while the interaction model is still being shaped.