Configuration

The main configuration file is in ~/.gun/config.json and looks something like this:

{
  "version": "1",
  "network": "signet",
  "blockchain": {
    "type": "esplora",
    "base_url": "https://mempool.space/signet/api",
    "concurrency": 10,
    "stop_gap": 10
  },
  "signers": [
    {
      "kind": "seed-words-file",
    }
  ]
}

Configuration keys

network

Which network the wallet operates on:

• bitcoin: The bitcoin Bitcoin.
• testnet: the Bitcoin testnet.
• regtest: A local regtest node.
• signet: The signet testnet

blockchain

Configures the blockchain backend that the wallet will use.

At the moment only esplora style backends are supported (e.g. https://mempool.space/api and https://blockstream.info/api).

base_url

Sets the esplora HTTP API backend to make requests to

concurrency

How many requests to make in parallel to the esplora backend.

stop_gap

How many unused addresses should gun wait to find until it stops scanning more when syncing.

signers

signers is an array of signing methods that will be used to sign transactions. Most of the time this will have a single entry.