# Lightning Network Tools

- [LND](/lightning-network-tools/lnd.md): The Lightning Network Daemon (LND) is Lightning Labs’ implementation of a Lightning Network node.
- [Get Started](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/run-lnd.md): Learn how to install LND on your machine, configure it and keep it up to date.
- [lnd.conf](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/lnd.conf.md): The LND configuration file can be edited to customize your Lightning Network node.
- [First Steps With LND](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/first-steps-with-lnd.md): Learn how to fund your wallet, open your first channel and make your first payments with LND.
- [Wallet Management](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/wallet.md)
- [Sending Payments](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/payments.md)
- [Atomic Multi-path Payments (AMP)](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/amp.md): Learn how to make use of AMP and send satoshis to a peer without an invoice with keysend.
- [Receiving Payments](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/receiving.md)
- [Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/unconfirmed-bitcoin-transactions.md): Learn how to bump transaction fees using replace-by-fee (RBF) and child-pays-for-parent (CPFP) transactions.
- [Channel Fees](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/channel-fees.md): Understand how fees are calculated in the Lightning Network and learn how to set them appropriately.
- [Inbound Channel Fees](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/inbound-channel-fees.md): Inbound channel fees allow node operators to more efficiently signal where liquidity scarcities occur. This improves capital allocation in the Lightning Network and allows channels to be utilized more
- [Macaroons](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/macaroons.md): Macaroons are fancy cookies. You use LND to create custom macaroons that limit their permissions with great granularity, down to the exact RPC calls.
- [Configuring Watchtowers](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/watchtower.md): Learn how to setup a watchtower, either as a client or as a server, to watch over your own or another node.
- [Pathfinding](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/pathfinding.md): Understand how LND attempts routes through the Lightning Network and configure pathfinding to suit your needs.
- [Blinded Paths](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/blinded-paths.md): Blinded paths allow the creator of an invoice to specify the last hops that a payment to their node must take. This path is included in the Lightning Network invoice in encrypted form.
- [Key Import](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/key_import.md)
- [Secure Your Lightning Network Node](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/secure-your-lightning-network-node.md): Learn what best practices to follow to make sure nobody is gaining unauthorized access to your Lightning Node and satoshis or lose funds in accidents.
- [Configuration of a Routing Node](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/optimal-configuration-of-a-routing-node.md): Understand the parameters of your LND configuration to optimize your node for routing payments
- [Quick Tor Setup](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/quick-tor-setup.md): Use the Tor network to make your node reachable behind your home router or firewall.
- [Configuring Tor](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/configuring_tor.md)
- [Enable ‘Neutrino mode’ in Bitcoin Core](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/enable-neutrino-mode-in-bitcoin-core.md): Prepare one or multiple existing Bitcoin Core nodes to work with LND's Neutrino mode.
- [Send Messages With Keysend](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/send-messages-with-keysend.md): Learn how to send messages to anyone in the Lightning Network from the command line
- [Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/psbt.md)
- [Bulk onchain actions with PSBTs](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/bulk-psbt.md): PSBTs can be used to batch custom onchain transactions for maximum cost efficiency, for example to open multiple channels or send to multiple destinations in one transaction.
- [Sweeper](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/sweeper.md): "Sweep" is an LND subservice that handles funds sent from dispute resolution contracts to the internal wallet.
- [Probing with EstimateRouteFee](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/probing-with-estimateroutefee.md): Determine your Lightning Network routing fees before making a payment.
- [Debugging LND](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/debugging_lnd.md)
- [Fuzzing LND](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/fuzz.md)
- [Channel Acceptor](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/channel-acceptor.md): The channel acceptor API allows you to enforce custom logic on whether an incoming channel should be accepted or not.
- [RPC Middleware Interceptor](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/rpc-middleware-interceptor.md): The RPC middleware interceptor allows interception and modification of any RPC call made to LND.
- [HTLC Interceptor](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/htlc-interceptor.md): The HTLC Interceptor allows you to reject, resume and settle HTLCs flowing through your node.
- [NAT Traversal](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/nat_traversal.md)
- [Recovery: Planning for Failure](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/recovery-planning-for-failure.md): "That's planning for failure, Morty. Even dumber than regular planning."
- [Migrating LND](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/migrating-lnd.md): Learn how to move your Lightning node to a new machine.
- [Disaster recovery](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/disaster-recovery.md): Learn how to recover your funds in the event of a catastrophic failure.
- [Contribute to LND](/lightning-network-tools/lnd/contribute-to-lnd.md): Learn how to contribute to LND’s code and documentation
- [Lightning Terminal](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal.md): Lightning Terminal is a web-based dashboard for Lightning Labs products.
- [What is Lightning Terminal?](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/introduction.md): Terminal is a web-based dashboard for Lightning Labs products.
- [Get litd](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/get-lit.md): Learn how to run litd in integrated mode, install litd alongside your existing LND installation, or move an existing system to litd.
- [Run litd](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/run-litd.md): Run litd in integrated or remote mode.
- [Integrating litd](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/integrating-litd.md): Move LND, Loop, Pool, Taproot Assets and litd all into a single binary: litd in integrated mode.
- [Demo: Litd Speed Run](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/speedrun.md): Learn how to spin up a new Lightning Network node in less than 15 minutes
- [Connect to Terminal](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/connect.md): Run litd either in integrated mode or on a separate machine.
- [Recommended Channels](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/recommended-channels.md): Learn what Recommended Channels are and how you can make best use of them.
- [Rankings](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/ranking.md): Lightning Terminal lets you explore Lightning Network nodes. All nodes are ranked by their performance, as observed by publicly available information.
- [Health Checks](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/health-checks.md): Lightning Terminal uses Health Checks to assess the basic qualities of a routing node.
- [Liquidity Report](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/liquidity-report.md): Lightning Terminal Liquidity reports provide node operators with a quick view of their inbound capacity
- [Opening Lightning Network Channels](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/opening-channels.md): You will need to open channels to be able to receive or send money in the Lightning Network.
- [Managing Channel Liquidity](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/channel-liquidity.md): To run a profitable routing node, you will need to efficiently manage your channel liquidity.
- [Autofees](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/autofees.md): Autofees is a feature that sets fees for your channels based on how much they earn.
- [AutoOpen](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/autoopen.md): AutoOpen helps node runners by opening new channels. It takes into account a variety of factors to improve the node’s position in the graph.
- [LND Accounts](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/accounts.md): LND Accounts lets you create custodial accounts on top of your LND node enforced with custom macaroons.
- [Loop and Lightning Terminal](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/loop.md): Lightning Terminal bundles Loop to make it easy for you to manage your channel liquidity.
- [Loop Fees](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/loop-fees.md): This article explains Loop fees. It is written in the context of Lightning Terminal, but equally applies to using Loop through the command line interface.
- [Pool and Lightning Terminal](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/pool.md): Pool is a market place for channel liquidity. It is bundled with Lightning Terminal through a handy user interface.
- [Command Line Interface](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/command-line-interface.md): litd can be accessed using the litcli, lncli, pool, loop and frcli command line interfaces (CLI).
- [Troubleshooting](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/troubleshooting.md): In the event that you may run into issues with Lightning Terminal or one of its bundled products, you may refer to this page.
- [Lightning Node Connect: Under the hood](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/lightning-node-connect.md): Lightning Node Connect makes it easy to connect an application to your Lightning Network Node.
- [LNC Node Package](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/lnc-npm.md): Use NPM to download and install the LNC node package and enable your application to connect directly to your users' nodes via Lightning Node Connect.
- [Privacy and Security](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/privacy-and-security.md): Terminal is operated in a way that Lightning Labs never has access or insight to your node.
- [Privacy Policy](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/privacy.md)
- [Terms of Use](/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/tos.md)
- [Loop](/lightning-network-tools/loop.md): The guide to Lightning Loop
- [Get Started](/lightning-network-tools/loop/get-started.md): Install Loopd from source or the binaries
- [The Loop CLI](/lightning-network-tools/loop/the-loop-cli.md): Understand fees in Lightning Loop and get the most out of it
- [Autoloop](/lightning-network-tools/loop/autoloop.md): Automate your liquidity management, empty and refill channels automatically using a predefined budget.
- [Static Loop In Addresses](/lightning-network-tools/loop/static-loop-in-addresses.md): A static Loop In Address is a special form of a timeout contract that backs a submarine swap. It allows for the onchain transaction to occur independently of the offchain transaction.
- [Instant Loop Outs](/lightning-network-tools/loop/instant-loop-outs.md): Instant Loop Out is a form of submarine swap that uses pre-committed onchain funds to make Loop Outs immediately available once the offchain payment has been settled.
- [Peer with Loop](/lightning-network-tools/loop/peer-with-loop.md): We are always looking for well-connected routing node operators who are interested in earning routing fees to help route these funds to the Loop node.
- [Pool](/lightning-network-tools/pool.md): Understand the basics of Lightning Pool and how it can help you find and leverage your position in the Lightning Network
- [Overview](/lightning-network-tools/pool/overview.md)
- [Quickstart](/lightning-network-tools/pool/quickstart.md)
- [Installation](/lightning-network-tools/pool/install.md): Install Pool from source or using the binaries.
- [First Steps](/lightning-network-tools/pool/first-steps.md): Open a Pool account and buy your first channel using the command line.
- [Accounts](/lightning-network-tools/pool/accounts.md)
- [Orders and Asks](/lightning-network-tools/pool/orders.md): Learn how to place orders and asks and make use of all features of Pool.
- [Sidecar Channels](/lightning-network-tools/pool/sidecar_channels.md)
- [Zero-confirmation Channels](/lightning-network-tools/pool/zero-confirmation-channels.md): Zero-confirmation channels are channels that are active without being confirmed on the bitcoin blockchain.
- [Channel Leases](/lightning-network-tools/pool/channel_leases.md)
- [Batch Execution](/lightning-network-tools/pool/batch_execution.md)
- [Account Recovery](/lightning-network-tools/pool/account_recovery.md)
- [FAQs](/lightning-network-tools/pool/faq.md): Lightning Pool is a non-custodial, peer-to-peer marketplace for Lightning node operators to buy and sell inbound channel liquidity.
- [Taproot Assets](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets.md): Learn how to install Taproot Assets, mint and transfer assets.
- [Get Started](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/get-tapd.md): The Taproot Assets Daemon tapd implements the Taproot Assets Protocol for issuing and transferring assets on the Bitcoin blockchain.
- [First Steps](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/first-steps.md): Use Taproot Assets to mint, send, receive and burn assets on the Bitcoin blockchain.
- [Taproot Assets Channels](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/taproot-assets-channels.md): Taproot Assets can be deposited into Lightning Network channels, where they can be transferred instantly at low fees.
- [Asset Metadata](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/asset-metadata.md): Structure your stablecoin asset and associate metadata
- [Asset Decimal Display](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/decimal-display.md)
- [Become an Edge Node](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/become-an-edge-node.md): From routing node to Edge node
- [RFQ](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/rfq.md): Request For Quote (RFQ) is a mechanism that simplifies sending Taproot Assets over Lightning Network channels.
- [Collectibles](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/collectibles.md): Learn how to mint your own collectibles, as well as collections of collectibles.
- [Universes](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/universes.md): Learn how to run a universe and connect to other universes.
- [Asset Loop](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/asset-loop.md): Loop Out your Taproot Asset channel balances into your onchain Bitcoin wallet to free up inbound liquidity.
- [Tips and Tricks](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/tips-and-tricks.md): Taproot Assets on the Lightning Network allow you to pay any Lightning invoice, and get paid from any Lightning wallet. Consult this document when running into issues.
- [Debugging Tapd](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/debugging-tapd.md): Help improve the Taproot Assets Daemon by submitting your logs and issues.
- [Multisignature](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/multisignature.md): To secure your Taproot Assets you may distribute your keys across segregated devices and security zones.
- [Minting Assets With an External Signer](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/minting-assets-with-an-external-signer.md): Use an external signing device to protect your private keys.
- [Lightning Polar](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/polar.md): Lightning Polar provides you with an easy-to-use interface to set up your Lightning Network testing environment, including Taproot Assets.
- [Operational Safety Guidelines](/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/operational-safety-guidelines.md): Keep yourself and your Taproot Assets safe
- [Aperture](/lightning-network-tools/aperture.md): Aperture is an implementation of L402s as a reverse HTTP proxy.
- [Get Aperture](/lightning-network-tools/aperture/get-aperture.md): Aperture is an implementation of L402s as a reverse HTTP proxy.
- [Step by Step](/lightning-network-tools/aperture/step-by-step.md): Downloading, build, configure and deploy aperture
- [Admin Services](/lightning-network-tools/aperture/admin-services.md): Aperture bundles command line, MCP, and REST interfaces that let you manage and monitor your gateway
- [Machine Payments Protocol](/lightning-network-tools/aperture/machine-payments-protocol.md): The Machine Payments Protocol is a proposed protocol for machine-to-machine payments over Lightning and other payment rails
- [LNC Backend](/lightning-network-tools/aperture/lnc-backend.md): Lightning Node Connect (LNC) lets you connect applications to your node by only passing on an eight word connection phrase, even if your node is behind a NAT or Tor.
- [LNC Mailbox](/lightning-network-tools/aperture/mailbox.md): Install your own Lightning Node Connect relay proxy server, the mailbox, which comes bundled in Aperture.
- [Pricing](/lightning-network-tools/aperture/pricing.md): Use Aperture to dynamically price resources using L402s.
- [Faraday](/lightning-network-tools/faraday.md): Faraday is a suite of tools built to help node operators and businesses run lnd. Faraday’s tools decrease the operational overhead of running a Lightning Node.
- [Get Started](/lightning-network-tools/faraday/get-started.md): Install and run faraday and frcli
- [The Faraday CLI](/lightning-network-tools/faraday/the-faraday-cli.md): Learn how to use the Faraday command line interface