Tornado Cash protocol can be launched locally on your computer through a minified User Interface version made available by the core developers team.
Step #1: Clone the Github repository on your computer
By opening your Command Line Interface, you can run the following commands to, first, clone the repository, then go inside the newly copied folder:
1 git clone https://github.com/tornadocash/ui-minified.git
2 cd ui-minified
Step #2: Serve the Folder with Your Favorite HTTP Server
1 python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
You can obviously use any other http web server, such as.
Step #3: Run the UI on Localhost on your Favorite Web Browser
To finish, you just need to run http://localhost:8080 on your Web Browser & let the magic happens 🪄
Running a TOR service
If you wish to serve tornado cash UI on an .onion domain, there is an easy way to do it using docker-compose.
You need to paste the following into docker-compose.ym
1 version: '2'
2 services:
3 tornado_ui:
4 image: tornadocash/ui
5 restart: always
6 container_name: tornado_ui
7 watchtower:
8 image: v2tec/watchtower
9 restart: always
10 volumes:
11 - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
12 command: --interval 60 tornado_ui
13 tor:
14 image: strm/tor
15 restart: always
16 depends_on: [ tornado_ui ]
17 environment:
18 LISTEN_PORT: 80
19 REDIRECT: tornado_ui:80
20 # Generate a new key with
21 # docker run --rm --entrypoint shallot strm/tor-hiddenservice-nginx ^torn
22 PRIVATE_KEY: |
23 -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
24 ...
25 -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----