lightning network News and Articles

The Federal Reserve of the US has been exploring Bitcoin. The Cleveland Fed released a study titled "The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money" which investigates LN's role for BTC payments. Lightening is a secondary transaction layer launched in March 2018, which operates outside...

On June 6, the capacity of Bitcoin's Lightning Network (LN) set a new ATH. Data from Glassnode shows that this metric surpassed 3.970. Capacity indicates the overall amount of BTCs locked in the network. Launched in 2018, Lightning operates on top of the BTC blockchain and enhances its scalability....

Chainalysis analytics platform announced support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) micropayment network with its transaction tracking solution from February 2022. "VASPs, including cryptocurrency exchanges that use Chainalysis KYT (Know Your Transaction) to monitor transactions in...

Instant Swap platform Flyp.me lately announced it had integrated Bitcoin Lightning Network into its accountless platform. Flyp.me is an account free crypto swap platform which lets users to swap up to 40 cryptocurrencies in a secure and instant manner. With just one click visitors can swap tokens...

Businessman Jack Dorsey said he sees a possibility to include Bitcoin's Layer 2 solution Lightning Network into one of the media platforms led by him. When Dorsey posted about sphinx_chat, a forum where people can talk about lightning, a user named @deyonte, suggested Lightning Network's inclusion...

Lightning App, an establishment aiming to expand the Lightning Network, a Layer 2 payment protocol operating on BTC, has issued a retail store for liquidity. The protocol informed about the launch of Pool, “a non-custodial, P2P market” which will convert Lightning liquidity into a commercial...

Last week, Blockstream released c-lightning 0.9.0, the latest version of one of the popular Lightning Network protocol implementations. The release was titled "Rat poison squared on steroids" (a reference to Warren Buffett's comment on bitcoin, which he called "rat poison...

Jack Dorsey's Square Crypto announced the allocation of another grant for the development of Bitcoin's Layer 2 network, Lightning Network's infrastructure. It was received by the Spanish developers' team Talaia, working on the service The Eye of Satoshi. The Eye of Satoshi is the so-called...

Future.Travel, a Vietnam-based ticketing agency, has expanded its list of payment options with the second-level Bitcoin protocol Lightning Network. This will reduce the cost of booking hotels and airline tickets, the press release said. Technical support for the integration of the Lightning Network...

Blockstream, a leading provider of bitcoin and blockchain solutions, has introduced a new version of the c-lightning solution, which took about ten months to develop. Solution c-lightning v0.8.0. by default, works on the main Bitcoin network, unless the “-network" parameter is manually set...

Blockstream developer Rusty Russell has revealed more details about the Lightning Network vulnerability, which first became known in late August. As Russell wrote, the vulnerability arose during the creation and replenishment of its channels. In particular, when creating a channel, the recipient...

Bitcoin users have a new tool that allows them to instantly purchase coin on the Lightning Network using bank cards. A solution called Olympus was introduced by Zap Wallet developer Jack Mullers. The new tool is designed to bypass complex KYC procedures requiring services like BitPay and Coinbase....

One of the most widespread digital wallets Electroneum is working to do an update and add support for Bitcoin’s lightning network. The founder of Electroneum, Thomas Voegtlin said that technology release on the wallet is really close, but he didn’t mention the exact date of the official launch....