Built-in Tor
Every time your wallet talks to a node or checks an exchange rate, the server on the other end sees your IP address — a strong hint of who and where you are. Cake Wallet ships with Tor built in: flip one switch and the app routes its connections through the Tor network, hiding your IP from the services it talks to. No extra apps required.
Tor hides your IP from the servers your wallet contacts. It doesn't make transactions themselves anonymous — that's what coins and features like Monero, Silent Payments, and MWEB are for. Use both layers together.
Turn it on
Open Settings from the top right, then under App settings tap Connections and enable Enable built-in Tor.
Cake Wallet marks the feature experimental: not every connection type supports Tor routing yet, so if you want belt-and-suspenders coverage, combine it with a VPN or run Orbot in whole-device mode.
What to expect
Startup takes a little longer. The app establishes a Tor connection first — you'll see a brief connecting state before your wallet syncs.
Syncing is drastically slower than clearnet. Tor adds latency by design, and there's no useful estimate to give — expect syncing to take far longer overall, especially for a large rescan. If you need a fast sync, use your own clearnet node.
Some third-party services may not work over Tor. Fiat on-ramp providers in particular sometimes block Tor connections. The
Fiat APIandSwapsettings on the same Connections screen offer Tor-only modes if you'd rather those features fail closed than leak your IP.
Onion nodes
With Tor active you can also connect to .onion nodes — nodes reachable only inside the Tor network, removing the exit-hop entirely.
Cake Wallet ships onion presets for two coins only:
Monero —
Cake Wallet (Onion)in the Monero node list.Zcash —
Cake Wallet (Tor)andCake Wallet (Tor #2)in the Zcash node list.
There are no built-in onion presets for Bitcoin, Litecoin or any other coin. On those, add an onion node yourself from Manage nodes if you have one to point at.
Without Tor running, .onion nodes will not connect — if your wallet is stuck on one, switch to a clearnet node or enable Tor.
Built-in Tor or Orbot?
Built-in Tor protects Cake Wallet's own connections with zero setup — the right choice for most people.
Orbot routes your whole device (or chosen apps) through Tor, covers connection types the built-in support doesn't reach yet, and suits users who already run Tor for everything.
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