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- Async Payments: Getting Paid While Your Node Is Offline
Async payments let an often-offline node receive Lightning payments without trusting a custodian and without locking up network capacity with long-lived HTLCs.
- Lexe Uses LDK to Run Self-Custodial Lightning in Secure Enclaves
Learn how Lexe uses LDK to run self-custodial Lightning nodes inside Intel SGX secure enclaves with free, always-on node hosting
- Announcing Versioned Storage Service (VSS)
The Versioned Storage Service (VSS) provides a server-side storage solution for non-custodial mobile, web and hosted wallets.
- Pathfinding with LDK
Learn how LDK built the most advanced pathfinder in the Lightning Network
- How we built our Sparknodes using LDK
Learn how Lightspark used LDK to build their Lightning Network infrastructure
- Fedimint Lightning Gateway uses LDK Node to simplify deployment and liquidity management
Learn how Fedimint uses LDK node to simplify deployment and liquidity management in the lightning gateway
- LQWD Liquidity Provider: Get Liquidity When You Need It
Learn how LQWD built a custom LSP
- Alby Hub uses LDK to offer a self-custodial lightning wallet for everyone
Learn how Alby uses LDK to empower users & builders with easy but important tools
- BOLT12 Has Arrived
BOLT12 offers enhanced privacy, reusable payment codes, refunds, and much more, all natively over the Lightning Network.
- Unleashing Liquidity on the Lightning Network with "lightning-liquidity"
The lightning-liquidity crate is an easy-to-integrate rust library that wallet developers and LSP operators can use to implement the LSP specification
- Bitkit uses LDK to build the ultimate alternative to custodial wallets
Learn how Bitkit uses LDK to build a cross platform mobile wallet
- The Challenges of Developing Non-Custodial Lightning on Mobile
Lightning development is tough. While going custodial simplifies the process, it means sacrificing user privacy, censorship resistance, and self-sovereignty, all of which contradict bitcoin’s ethos.
- Mutiny uses LDK to create the first lightning wallet for the web
Learn how Mutiny built a lightning wallet for the web
- Anchor Outputs Channels Are Here
LDK v0.0.116 added support for opening channels with anchor outputs.
- Announcing LDK Node
A ready-to-go Lightning node library built using LDK and BDK.
- LDK Roadmap
LDK is going to have a big year. Several key features are actively being developed or expected to be developed in the next few quarters.
- TEOS uses LDK to build open-source watchtower
Learn how TEOS built an open-source watchtower
- Sensei uses LDK to Build a Multi-Node Lightning Server App
Learn how Sensei built a lightning node app to serve many nodes
- Cash App Enables Lightning Withdrawals & Deposits Using LDK
Learn how Cash App integrated with the lightning network, allowing its users to send and receive bitcoin instantly.
- Onion Messages Demystified
We recently merged support for onion message forwarding, a precursor to deprecating today’s Lightning invoice format, in favor of offers.
- Zero-Confirmation Channels
A 0-conf channel allows peers to start using a channel as soon as the funding transaction is broadcast.
- Announcing Rapid Gossip Sync
Rapid Gossip Sync is a protocol that allows nodes to catch up with channel gossip data by relying on semi-trusted servers.
- Introducing Phantom Node Payments
Phantom node payments let enterprise users running high-volume lightning nodes generate invoices that can be paid to one of multiple production nodes.
- LDK: An SDK for the Lightning Network
Learn how LDK improves DX, makes it easier to work with Lightning functionality, and makes building faster for your entire team in our newly launched blog.