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Quickstart

Send your first interlayer payment with Cassis in a few steps.

Experimental software. Cassis is early-stage and under active development. Only deposit money you are comfortable losing, for now.

Get a supported wallet

The only supported wallet today is cassis-cli:

$ cargo install --path cassis-cli

You will need two instances, each on a different network — one to pay and one to receive. They can run on the same machine with different config directories (--home).

Check the router mesh

Before choosing your networks, visit explorer.cassis.cash to see which routers are active and which networks they bridge. Pick a source and destination that are actually connected.

1. Deposit into the sender wallet

Fund the wallet on the network you will pay from:

$ cassis-cli --home ~/.cassis-sender arkade deposit
$ cassis-cli --home ~/.cassis-sender liquid deposit
$ cassis-cli --home ~/.cassis-sender rootstock info

2. Create an invoice on the receiver wallet

On the receiving instance, ask for a payment:

$ cassis-cli --home ~/.cassis-receiver invoice \
    --amount 21300 \
    --network fedimint \
    --payee geppetto@fedimint \
    --description "lunch"

This generates a fresh secret R, keeps it local, and prints an invoice carrying only the hash H = sha256(R).

3. Pay the invoice on the sender wallet

Hand the invoice to the sender and pay:

$ cassis-cli --home ~/.cassis-sender pay \
    --invoice '{"...": "..."}' \
    --from arkade

The wallet finds a route through the router mesh, locks the source hop, and the preimage cascades back as every leg settles. That's it.

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