Hello Taro: Building the (Tap)Root of the World's Financial Network with Bitcoin 👋🍠
Today we're excited to announce the alpha release of the Taro daemon, enabling developers to mint, send, and receive assets on the bitcoin blockchain. In April, we first announced Taro, a Taproot-powered protocol for issuing assets that can be transferred over bitcoin and in the future, the Lightning Network for instant, high volume, low fee transactions. We are grateful to the bitcoin developer community for their valuable feedback, and have incorporated it into the draft Bitcoin Improvement…
Announcing lnd 0.15 beta: To Taproot and Beyond! ♾️
We're pleased to announce lnd 0.15 beta, our first release of 2022! Building on our commitment to make the Lightning Network more reliable, robust, and secure, our latest release includes: The ability to create and spend from Taproot addresses New RPC methods to support experimental MuSig2 signing Database space reduction of ~95% by reducing state stored in revocation logs for new data New pathfinding variable to give more control over time and cost tradeoff Mobile improvements including a…
Announcing Taro: A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning 🍠💱🌍
Today we’re excited to announce Taro, a new Taproot-powered protocol for issuing assets on the bitcoin blockchain that can be transferred over the Lightning Network for instant, high volume, low fee transactions. This announcement marks a big shift to a multi-asset Lightning Network with the potential for the world’s currencies to route through bitcoin liquidity on the network. At its core, Taro taps into the security and stability of the bitcoin network and the speed, scalability, and low fees…
Lightning Pool Update: Costs Go Down, Profits Go Up
Today, we're excited to announce the latest release of Lightning Pool with a number of new features requested by our users. Lightning Pool is a non-custodial, peer-to-peer marketplace for Lightning node operators to buy and sell channels. With Pool, Lightning developers and node operators can streamline their channel management and focus on serving their customers instead of worrying about liquidity. When node operators can more efficiently deploy their capital, it improves the network as a…
Lightning Node Connect: A Technical Deep Dive
Today we’re excited to announce the alpha Lightning Node Connect (LNC) a new streamlined way to allow an application/wallet (and even a web application using WASM!) to connect to a remote Lightning Node using a macaroon-scoped gRPC connection. LNC is new a fundamental primitive for Lightning application development, as it allows a user to easily (but securely!) pair their node with a given application/wallet or web application. The recently released web version of Lightning Terminal leverages…
Announcing the New Lightning Terminal: From Pleb to Web! 🕸️
Today we're excited to announce that we're bringing Lightning Terminal to the web, providing a simple web UI for node operators to improve the quality and liquidity of their node. The goal of this new release is to make running a Lightning node simpler, easier, and more accessible, lowering the barrier to instant, high volume, low fee bitcoin transactions for all. With this launch, we're taking a major step toward managing a Lightning node in a secure, private, and non-custodial manner by…
Announcing lnd 0.14 beta: Scale and Security Go Up
Note: The 0.14.1 release of LND is recommended for everyone who updated to LND 0.14.0 and it corrects a variety of issues reported by users who installed or upgraded the 0.14.0 release. We're pleased to announce lnd 0.14 beta, our final release of 2021! Building on our commitment to make the Lightning Network more reliable, robust, and secure, our latest release includes: Revamped replicated storage backends + optimized etcd database support for increased redundancy in the stack Initial support…
Announcing lnd 0.13-beta: Get Amped on Lightning!
We’re pleased to announce lnd 0.13-beta, our second release of 2021! Building on our commitment to make the Lightning Network more reliable, robust, and secure, our latest release includes initial support for atomic multi-path payments enabling larger and more reliable spontaneous payments, a new clustered lnd operating mode, payment optimizations for robustness, and a slew of wallet enhancements to enhance security. This release wouldn’t have been possible without the continued support from the…
Sidecar Channels: For Onboarding A Billion People to Bitcoin, Lightning Is Needed
Today we are excited to announce a new addition to Lightning Pool: sidecar channels, a feature that makes it easier to onboard new users to Lightning without the need to commit funds. In late 2020 we released Lightning Pool, a non-custodial, peer-to-peer marketplace for Lightning node operators to buy and sell channel leases. Lightning Pool connects node operators who need access to bitcoin liquidity with those who have capital to deploy on the Lightning Network. With Pool, node operators are…
Welcome to Terminal Web - Make Your Lightning Node the Very Best!
Today we’re announcing Terminal Web, a new web-based interface for Lightning node operators to gauge their node’s performance and get actionable recommendations on ways to improve. This is our first step towards providing a more unified experience for node operators that need to be able to measure, track, and manage their node’s performance. What’s more, by helping node operators, we can help the Lightning Network evolve into a distributed network for bitcoin transactions that is more durable…