LIGHTNING NETWORK RESOURCES
The Lightning Network is being developed as a means of making bitcoin payments faster, cheaper, and more private. It’s still experimental and reckless to use for large amounts of money. The goal of this page is to provide an index of curated high quality educational resources and information about the network to make it easier to educate yourself.
Note that this list is open source; please suggest changes on Github!
History:
- Early History
- LN Timeline
- History of LN (Christian Decker)
- History of Lightning Torch
Miscellaneous Statistics:
Visualizations:
Deep Dive Technical Resources:
Developer Tools:
- Boltbox (simnet LN setup)
- Boltwall (paywall & authentication)
- Channel Tools (lnd)
- Lighter (multi-implementation API wrapper)
- LND Developer Documentation
- LN API Paywall
- lnet Simplified Test Network Setup
- lnet-random Auto Generate Random Network with UI
- lsat-js (utility library for auth tokens)
- Lightning Dissector (wireshark plugin)
- Integration Testing Framework
- Protocol Test Suite
- Java LND client
- Payment Request Decoder
- Payment Request Decoder 2
- NodeJS LND gRPC library
- PHP C-Lightning client
- PHP LND Client
- Polar (local regtest LN deployment)
- Python Invoice Generator
- REST Interface for LND
- Sitzprobe (c-lightning plugin for auto-sending test payments)
- WebLN (LAPP / node secure comms)
Node Management Tools:
- C-simple c-lightning mobile interface
- LND channel manager
- LND channel rebalancer
- Lightning Monitoring (node alerts)
- Lightweight Web Client (for LND)
- LND Admin (LND web UI)
- LNTop (LND terminal dashboard)
- LND Monitor (dashboard)
- Node Management Handbook
- RTL (web client for LND)
- Thunderhub (node manager)
- Web Dashboard (for LND)
Desktop Wallets:
- Comprehensive Wallet List
- Fulmo (for c-lightning)
- Lightning App (for LND)
- Joule Browser Extension
- Casa Browser Extension
- Peach
- Spark (for c-lightning)
- Zap
Mobile Wallets:
- Lightning Wallets Features Comparison Table
- Breez (Android & iOS)
- Eclair (Android)
- Lastbit
- Lightning-Wallet (Android)
- Muun (Android & iOS)
- Shango (Android & iOS)
- Pebble (Android & iOS)
- Phoenix (Android)
- Swift Lightning (iOS)
- Zap (iOS)
- Zeus (Android & iOS)
Custodial Wallets:
Note that these wallets tend to trade weaker security in return for increased convenience.
Node Implementations:
Plug & Play Nodes:
Documentaries:
Podcasts:
- Lightning Junkies
- LNCast
- Noded
- Stephan Livera
- Tales from the Crypt
- The Coin Pod
- What Bitcoin Did (Lightning Network Series)
Twitter:
Applications:
Tipping:
- BitPatron
- Lightning Gifts
- LightningTip (add tipping to web pages)
- LNTipBot (reddit)
- nanotip (for c-lightning)
- Slack Tipbot
- tippin.me (twitter tips)
- Tallycoin (crowdfunding platform)
Merchant Adoption:
Merchant Tools:
- BTCPay (self hosted payment processor)
- Breez (mobile app has PoS mode)
- CoinGate
- CryptoChill
- FileBazaar (sell digital files)
- GloBee
- Lightning Charge (merchant solution for c-lightning)
- Lightning Collect (payment processor)
- Lightning Pay Station (PoS hardware)
- M5StackSats (PoS hardware)
- Nano PoS (for Lightning Charge)
- OpenNode
- Python Strike library
- Quickening (PoS hardware)
- Strike (Stripe-like API)
- WooCommerce gateway
- OpenCart Payment Gateway (for LND node)
Trading:
- Hodl Hodl
- Atomic Swap Readiness charts
- BTCDuke Exchange
- CoinPlaza Exchange
- Lightning Conductor (swap off-chain for on-chain BTC)
- Submarine Swaps
- LN Markets
Economics:
- The Time Value of Bitcoin
- The LN Reference Rate
- Thor (buy inbound liquidity)
- LightningToMe (request inbound liquidity)
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