Monero Talk interviews Cake Wallet founder Vik Sharma

In this Monero Talk episode¹’², Douglas Tuman interviews Vik Sharma³, the founder of Cake Wallet⁴.

Vik addressed the Monero community after the recent Zcash controversy⁵’⁶:

[..] nobody has ever done shielded-transaction only wallet [..] we can do something that nobody else is doing, so that was the thought behind it [..]

[..] by putting Zcash in Cake Wallet I don’t think we’re gonna be fooling the Monero community into thinking one is better than the other, or one is equal [..] what I anticipated is the Monero community to say “Okay, fine whatever, but we’re gonna continue using our Monero part of the wallet.” That’s how I thought the response would be [..]”

[..] to get this Monero-only app out first is a pritority right now [..]

If their compromise plan works out as expected, Cake will have 3 separate wallets:

• Monero-only app
• Cake Original (multiple assets)
• Zcash-only wallet

Vik also confirmed that Cake Wallet will join Coincards⁷ as an official sponsor of the 2022 Monerotopia Miami event⁸’⁹.