Builder's Guide
  • Welcome to the Builder's Guide to the LND Galaxy!
  • The Lightning Network
    • Overview
    • Payment Channels
      • Lifecycle of a Payment Channel
      • Watchtowers
      • Understanding Sweeping
      • Etymology
    • The Gossip Network
      • Identifying Good Peers on the Lightning Network
    • Pathfinding
      • Finding routes in the Lightning Network
      • Channel Fees
      • Multipath Payments (MPP)
    • Lightning Network Invoices
      • Understanding Lightning Invoices
    • Making Payments
      • The Payment Cycle
      • Timelocks
      • ⭐Hashed Timelock Contract (HTLC)
      • Payment Etymology
      • ⭐What Makes a Good Routing Node
      • Understanding Submarine Swaps
      • Instant Submarine Swaps
    • Liquidity
      • ⭐Understanding Liquidity
      • Managing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
      • Liquidity Management for Lightning Merchants
      • How to Get Inbound Capacity on the Lightning Network
      • Lightning Service Provider
    • L402: Lightning HTTP 402 Protocol
      • Macaroons
      • L402
      • 📋Protocol Specification
      • Implementations and Links
    • Taproot Assets
      • Taproot Assets Protocol
      • Taproot Assets on Lightning
      • Edge Nodes
      • Taproot Assets Trustless Swap
      • FAQ
      • Glossary
  • Lightning Network Tools
    • LND
      • 🛠️Get Started
      • lnd.conf
      • First Steps With LND
      • Wallet Management
      • Sending Payments
      • Atomic Multi-path Payments (AMP)
      • Receiving Payments
      • Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions
      • Channel Fees
      • Inbound Channel Fees
      • Macaroons
      • Configuring Watchtowers
      • Pathfinding
      • Blinded Paths
      • Key Import
      • Secure Your Lightning Network Node
      • Configuration of a Routing Node
      • Quick Tor Setup
      • Configuring Tor
      • Enable ‘Neutrino mode’ in Bitcoin Core
      • Send Messages With Keysend
      • Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions
      • Bulk onchain actions with PSBTs
      • Sweeper
      • Debugging LND
      • Fuzzing LND
      • LND API documentation
      • Channel Acceptor
      • RPC Middleware Interceptor
      • HTLC Interceptor
      • NAT Traversal
      • Recovery: Planning for Failure
      • Migrating LND
      • Disaster recovery
      • Contribute to LND
    • Lightning Terminal
      • What is Lightning Terminal?
      • 🛠️Get litd
      • Run litd
      • Integrating litd
      • Demo: Litd Speed Run
      • Connect to Terminal
      • Recommended Channels
      • Rankings
      • Health Checks
      • Liquidity Report
      • Opening Lightning Network Channels
      • Managing Channel Liquidity
      • Autofees
      • AutoOpen
      • LND Accounts
      • Loop and Lightning Terminal
      • Loop Fees
      • Pool and Lightning Terminal
      • Command Line Interface
      • Troubleshooting
      • Lightning Node Connect: Under the hood
      • LNC Node Package
      • LITD API Documentation
      • Privacy and Security
      • Privacy Policy
      • Terms of Use
    • Loop
      • 🛠️Get Started
      • The Loop CLI
      • Autoloop
      • Static Loop In Addresses
      • Instant Loop Outs
      • Peer with Loop
      • Loop API Documentation
    • Pool
      • Overview
      • Quickstart
      • 🛠️Installation
      • First Steps
      • Accounts
      • Orders and Asks
      • Sidecar Channels
      • Zero-confirmation Channels
      • Channel Leases
      • Batch Execution
      • Account Recovery
      • Pool API Documentation
      • FAQs
    • Taproot Assets
      • Get Started
      • First Steps
      • Taproot Assets Channels
      • Asset Decimal Display
      • Become an Edge Node
      • RFQ
      • Collectibles
      • Universes
      • Asset Loop
      • Debugging Tapd
      • Multisignature
      • Minting Assets With an External Signer
      • Lightning Polar
      • Operational Safety Guidelines
      • Taproot Assets API Documentation
    • Aperture
      • ⚒️Get Aperture
      • LNC Backend
      • LNC Mailbox
      • Pricing
    • Faraday
      • 🛠️Get Started
      • The Faraday CLI
      • Faraday API Documentation
  • LAPPs
    • Guides
      • Use Polar to Build Your First LAPP
        • Setup: Local Cluster with Polar
        • Setup: Run the Completed App
        • Setup: Run the App Without LND
      • Add Features
        • Feature 1: Connect to LND
        • Feature 2: Display Node Alias and Balance
        • Feature 3: Sign and Verify Posts
        • Feature 4: Modify Upvote Action
      • Make Your own LNC-powered Application
    • Next Steps
  • Community Resources
    • Resource List
    • Lightning Bulb 💡
    • Glossary
    • FAQ
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  • Non-custodial wallets
  • Custodial & Other Wallets
  • Lightning node interfaces
  • Explorers
  • Applications
  • Software bundles that include Lightning
  • Developer Libraries & Tools
  • Wikis, Guides & Resources
  • Payment processors
  • Exchanges & Brokerages

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Resource List

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Lightning Nodes

  • - developed in Go by Lightning Labs

  • - developed in C by Blockstream

  • - developed in Scala by ACINQ

  • - developed in Python by Thomas Voegtlin

  • - developed in Rust

  • - developed in C++ by Nayuta Core

Wallets

Non-custodial wallets

  • () - available in Google Play and for iOS

  • () - available in Google Play and for iOS

  • () - available for Linux, OSX, Windows and Android

  • () - available for all browsers

  • () - available on Google Play and the Apple AppStore

  • () - available in F-Droid

  • () - available on Google Play and the Apple AppStore

  • () - available on Google Play and the Apple AppStore

  • () - available for Android and the Apple AppStore

Custodial & Other Wallets

Lightning node interfaces

Explorers

Applications

Software bundles that include Lightning

Developer Libraries & Tools

Wikis, Guides & Resources

Payment processors

Exchanges & Brokerages

- available in Google Play

- Available on Google Play and on the App Store

- available in Google Play, the Apple AppStore and Chrome

- available in Google Play and the Apple AppStore

- available in Google Play and the Apple AppStore

() - connect various wallet interfaces to this browser extension for web-native payments. And login with lightning. Available for Firefox, Chrome, Brave and others

- available in Google Play, F-Droid and the Apple AppStore

- runs on your personal computer, accessible through your browser

- Lightning network and node statistics

- Detailed information on channels and fee rates

- Telegram bot with Lightning Network explorer capabilities

- Evaluating channels and peers

- Analytics from the perspective of your own node

- the Lightning Network... in VR!

- paywall and authentication using LSATs built with Node.js and Typescript

- opens a payment channel with the target user

- a browser-based interface for managing channel liquidity

- lnbig autopilot and rebalancing engin

- node management via Node.js

- decentralized social network enabled by GUN db and lnd

- e2e encrypted group chat enabled by a Node.js wrapper around lnd

- node management via a NextJS server handling a backend Graphql server and frontend React App

- webshop with no browser, shopping cart, checkout page, nor credit card required

- send text messages and receive sms for online services on the web and via API

- Onboard newbies with lightning tips

- Login to WordPress with Bitcoin Lightning

- Command line tool for working with lnd balances

- Helper functions that can be used to rescue funds locked in lnd

- Node.js REST interface to lnd

- Simple Python server that provides an account system, extension framework, and more on top of lnd

- Wrapper for lnd that provides separate accounts for users sharing a node

- A javascript library for working with L402s

- One-click Bitcoin Lightning networks for local app development and testing

- A library for secure communication between Lightning apps and user nodes

Python script for circular rebalancing in LND

- A suite of tools built to help node operators and businesses run lnd, the leading implementation of the Lightning Network

Alby's

Ben Congdon's

Electric Capital's

Jameson Lopp's

opennoms

- Lightning Network node hosting platform

LND
c-Lightning
eclair
Electrum
Rust Lightning
Ptarmigan
Blixt Wallet
Github
Breez
Github
Electrum
Github
Mutiny
Github
Muun
Github
Open Bitcoin Wallet
Github
Phoenix
Github
Zebedee
Github
Zeus
Github
Bitcoin Beach Wallet
Bridge Wallet
Strike
Wallet of Satoshi
Bottlepay
Alby
Github
Zeus
Ride the Lightning
1ML
Amboss
Cheese Robot
Lightning Terminal
LNnodeinsight
VR Explorer
Boltwall
Lightning Faucet
Lightning Terminal
LNBig Server
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Ride the Lightning
Shockwallet
Sphinx Relay
Thunderhub
TLV shop
sms4sats
lightsats
LNURL Auth For WordPress
myNode
RaspiBlitz
Umbrel
Start9
Balance of Satoshis
Chantools
ln-service
LNbits
lndhub
lsat-js
Polar
WebLN
rebalance-lnd
Faraday
WebLN Guide
Awesome Lightning Network
Lightning Ecosystem Repository
Lightning Network Resources
Lightning Node Management book
Bitfinex Pay
Coingate
OpenNode
BTCPayServer
LNBits
Voltage
Azteco
Binance
Bipa
Bitaroo
Bitfinex
Boltz
Coinbase
Coincorner
FixedFloat
Kraken
LNMarkets
LOFT
Mt Pelerin
NiceHash
OKX
River Financial
Strike
Southxchange
VBTC