Monero Talk - Episodes Tagged with “Viksharma”

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

Monero Talk — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:00:00 -0400

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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."

TIMESTAMPS:
(01:00) – Doug welcomes Vik, founder of Cake Wallet.
(02:30) – Cake Wallet reaches 1 million downloads and 450,000 active users per month.
(05:40) – Open-source principles, focus on digital cash, and Vik’s early involvement in the Monero community.
(09:00) – Balancing Monero loyalty with multi-coin inclusion; navigating community feedback.
(13:00) – Privacy coin landscape discussion — Monero vs. Zcash attention and adoption.
(16:30) – Monero’s advantages, real world use, and vendor integrations.
(21:10) – Monero ecosystem growth — FCMPs, atomic swaps, Thorchain, new vendor adoption.
(26:50) – Vision for the future: living fully on Monero through a global P2P marketplace.
(28:10) – Closing remarks

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Vik Sharma of Cakewallet on being Monero First

Monero Talk — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:00:00 -0400

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.

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

Monero Talk — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:00:00 -0400

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Chowbungaman chats with Becky Huang, Scott and Jindouyun about Monero in China. He also talks with Vik Sharma, CEO of Cake Wallet about their recent Cake Wallet release for Android!

Links:
Twitter：@Prmonero

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Wechat is the most popular chatting app in China, they created several Monero chatting groups on Wechat.
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门罗资讯专栏 & 精通门罗币 (头等仓 chinese revuo weekly reports)：
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未来控（FutureFan）简书
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知乎：（Chinese medium.com/）
https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20096007/hot

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门罗2019年度总结：(Monero Chinese community 2019 annual summary)
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Monero IOS Cake Wallet Keeps Getting Better

Monero Talk — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 20:45:00 -0300

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: 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!

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