What is Wasabi Wallet and how does its coinjoin work?

Wasabi Wallet is a privacy-focused bitcoin wallet for desktop computers. You keep your own keys, the app connects through Tor, and it can mix your coins with other users' coins in a process called coinjoin. Since mid-2024, the company that built Wasabi no longer runs a coordinator, so the coinjoin side now relies on independent operators.

How does Wasabi Wallet coinjoin work?

A coinjoin is one bitcoin transaction with inputs and outputs from many people, which makes it harder to tell who paid whom. Our coinjoin guide covers the general idea. Wasabi uses a protocol called WabiSabi. A round moves through input registration, connection confirmation, output registration, signing and broadcasting. Each input and output uses its own Tor identity, and the coordinator checks amounts through blinded credentials, so it should not be able to link inputs to outputs.

Coins that reach your chosen anonymity score target are labelled private in the wallet. According to the docs, you set a maximum mining fee rate (50 sat/vByte by default) and a minimum input count (21 by default). Since version 2.2.0.0, Wasabi will not join rounds where the coordinator charges a coordination fee, although in rare cases up to 10,000 sats of change can go to the coordinator.

What happened to the Wasabi Wallet coordinator?

zkSNACKs, the company behind Wasabi, announced in May 2024 that it would end its coinjoin coordination service on June 1, 2024, citing pressure on mixers. The wallet kept working as a regular bitcoin wallet. Version 2.0.8 added a coordinator setting in the app, and Wasabi's docs now say a coordinator must be configured before your first coinjoin. You can find coordinators through Nostr announcements or community statistics sites, and the docs advise users to verify them.

As of November 2026, community coordinators are running. OpenCoordinator, hosted in Switzerland, posted updates in June 2026 saying its fee stayed at 0%, after a brief domain outage. Atlas21 also names Kruw as an active coordinator. These are independent services that can change or close, and The Rage noted in 2024 that smaller coordinators may have less liquidity, which can mean weaker privacy. The legal side of mixing is covered in what is a crypto mixer.

Where do you get a Wasabi Wallet download, and is there an Android app?

Wasabi publishes builds for Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple silicon) and Linux on its site and on GitHub, where version 2.8.2 was the latest release as of November 2026. There is no Android or iPhone app; the official site says Wasabi is not available on mobile. That means a phone app using the Wasabi name would not come from the project, a risk described in how to spot a fake crypto wallet app.

Wasabi also works with hardware wallets through HWI, including Trezor, Coldcard, Ledger, Blockstream Jade and BitBox02, so keys can stay off the computer.