ZEUS Wallet
Mobile Bitcoin/Lightning wallet and node manager
We reviewed ZEUS Wallet using 3 official and public sources. The notes below focus on custody, recovery, and security trade-offs.
ZEUS is unusually explicit about self-custody and backend choice, but that flexibility means recovery, liquidity, and operational behavior cannot be reduced to one consumer-wallet flow.
- Bitcoin and Lightning users who want embedded or self-operated node control
- merchants and advanced users who value local route calculation and backend choice
Key specifications
- Brand
- ZEUS
- Role
- Node Manager
- Custody
- Self Custody
- Platforms
- iOSAndroidF Droid
- Networks
- bitcoinlightningcashu
- Pricing
- Free
Free to download and use
This record deliberately keeps ZEUS backend variants together at family level while requiring a later surface-specific recovery matrix.
- Key setup
- Generated KeysImported KeysSeed Based Hd
- Backup options
- backend-specific wallet/node backupuser-operated node backupsCashu onboarding with automatic sweep to self-custody
Self-custody across several Lightning backends; backend selection, channel/liquidity state, mobile endpoint security, relay/mint dependencies, and operational complexity are more important than a single wallet label.
- Encrypts keys locally
- Unknown
- Privacy note
- Privacy claims are product-level marketing claims and should be corroborated against current app-store disclosures and backend-specific behavior.
Third-party providers can affect uptime, privacy, and recovery. They are documented here for context, not as ranking points.
- User-operated Lightning or Bitcoin node (Node; KYC: Not Required)
- Lightning service and Nostr relay infrastructure (Relay; KYC: Provider Dependent)
- Affiliate
- No affiliate relationship recorded
Sources we checked
3 sources reviewed, with 4 documented claims tied to specific fields.
- ZEUS Wallet
ZEUS states that its embedded and remote-node paths are self-custodial and that users hold the keys.
- ZEUS Wallet
The product page distinguishes embedded LND, a full node on the phone, and remote connections to LND, Core Lightning, or LNDHub.
- ZEUS repository
The official repository describes ZEUS as a mobile Bitcoin/Lightning wallet and remote node manager for Android and iOS, fully open source under AGPLv3.
- ZEUS Wallet
The official page identifies v13.2.1 as the latest release at retrieval time.
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