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Frigate

Frigate is an experimental Electrum server with Silent Payments scanning support, built by the Sparrow Wallet team.

Recommended setup

Install Fulcrum and set it as the backend Electrum server in Frigate's configuration. This enables standard Electrum address lookups in addition to Silent Payments scanning.

Sync start height

The default start height is 840000. For most users this is fine. It covers all practical Silent Payments wallets and keeps initial sync time reasonable.

Advanced options (via the Configure action):

  • Faster sync - if you know your Silent Payments wallet only received funds from a specific block height onward, you can set that height as the start.
  • Full history - lower the start height to 709632 (Taproot activation) to index all Silent Payments transactions since the beginning. This significantly increases initial sync time and is not needed for most users.

Note: the upstream Frigate default is 709632. This package uses 840000 to reduce initial sync time.

GPU support

Frigate can use a GPU to accelerate Silent Payments scanning. The compute backend can be set in the Configure action (default: Auto).

  • Nvidia - should work. Not tested by the package author (no test hardware available). Reports welcome.
  • Intel - should work. Not tested by the package author (no test hardware available). Reports welcome.
  • AMD - should work using the AMD image variant with Mesa Rusticl OpenCL (radeonsi) bundled. Not tested by the package author (no test hardware available). Reports welcome.

Without a supported GPU, Frigate falls back to CPU automatically.