# Lightwalletd gRPC API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/zcash/lightwalletd-grpc-api/  
**Provider:** Zcash — https://apis.io/providers/zcash/  
**Base URL:** https://mainnet.lightwalletd.com:9067/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/zcash/lightwalletd

Lightwalletd gRPC API is one of 4 APIs that [Zcash](https://apis.io/providers/zcash/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include gRPC, Lightclient, Mobile, Compact Blocks, and Streaming. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

A bandwidth-efficient gRPC service that provides a compact block streaming interface to the Zcash blockchain, enabling lightweight mobile and web wallet clients to sync shielded transactions without downloading the full blockchain. Backed by either zcashd or zebrad full nodes. Implements the CompactTxStreamer service.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/zcash/lightwalletd
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/zcash/lightwalletd
- **ProtoFile** — https://github.com/zcash/lightwalletd/blob/master/walletrpc/compact_formats.proto

## Other Zcash APIs (3)

- [Zcash JSON-RPC API (zcashd)](https://apis.io/apis/zcash/zcash-json-rpc-api-zcashd/)
- [Zcash Payment API (z_ methods)](https://apis.io/apis/zcash/zcash-payment-api-z-methods/)
- [Zebra JSON-RPC API](https://apis.io/apis/zcash/zebra-json-rpc-api/)

## Tags

gRPC, Lightclient, Mobile, Compact Blocks, Streaming

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