Monero Talk

1 Million Downloads! Vik Sharma on Cake Wallet, Monero, and the Rise of “Privacy Coins” | EPI 367

November 7th, 2025  |  29 mins 59 secs

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TODAY'S SHOW: In this episode of Monero Talk, Douglas Tuman chats with Vik Sharma, founder of Cake Wallet, about the wallet's milestone of 1 million downloads and 450,000 monthly active users. Vik shares how Cake Wallet, initially a Monero-only wallet, has expanded to support Bitcoin, Litecoin, and more—while staying true to its open-source and privacy-focused roots.

The conversation covers Cake Wallet's relationship with the Monero community, privacy coins' growing attention (especially Zcash), and why Monero remains the preferred choice for actual use. The episode wraps up with thoughts on how Monero can stay ahead in the privacy space and the goal of creating a global peer-to-peer economy where people can "live off Monero."

Vik Sharma of Cakewallet on being Monero First

December 2nd, 2021  |  34 mins 51 secs

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman checks in with Vik Sharma, founder of Cakewallet to discuss the controversial news that dropped this week that they obtained a grant from the zcash foundation to add zcash to cake.

Cake received blowback from the Monero community and reacted by pivoting and announcing Cake wallet will now develop 3 wallets. Cake original, which will continue to evolve down its multi-coin pro-privacy path, a separate zcash wallet, and most exciting a separate Monero wallet for Monero purists which they will be focusing on first and hope to launch in the next few months.

We will continue to recommend Cake Wallet who sponsors this show, as they have yet again showed a devotion to building tools and services for Monero purists like us.

Monero in China: Becky Huang, Scott and Jindouyun. Plus a quick update: Cake Wallet for Android

February 5th, 2020  |  1 hr 46 mins

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Monero in China: Becky Huang, Scott and Jindouyun. Plus a quick update: Cake Wallet for Android

Monero IOS Cake Wallet Keeps Getting Better

October 1st, 2018  |  1 hr 10 mins

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A chat with Vik, the founder of the first IOS Monero wallet on why he created Cake, how cake became open source & where he sees Monero and Cake going!