No centralized exchange required. Your lightning node can swap between lightning-native assets.
Our friends at @speedwallet are bringing USDT-L and USDC-L, enabling flexible USD exposure for trading or hedging.
USDT-L and USDC-L are Taproot Assets on Bitcoin with @Lightning compatibility.
"Lightning and its ability to keep transaction level privacy is being undervalued when it may be that solution that the stablecoins need in order to protect transaction level privacy, but still have things be fully accountable at the blockchain level."
So many companies have launched on the Lightning Network wince we starting tracking it @ https://t.co/RA5smDSftS that we decided to make an X page to help us keep up.
This is it. Hi. ⚡
Finished a @thunderhubio skill this weekend. Handles local LND, Voltage litd, and even fresh node installs.
All with Taproot Assets support.
Here's a fresh litd node that @openclaw cooked using the skill. Didn't even have to touch anything. Security has been taken care of.
Between the users of Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Cash App, and more, there are approximately 900M users with the ability to pay a lightning invoice.
Lightning has won.
@bitcoinhodlco Welcome to the Lightning Network! You'll need some inbound liquidity yourself to really kick things off.
We'd also welcome you to start selling liquidity via Magma https://t.co/VPzO7gONvG as it's the most active liquidity marketplace on LN.
https://t.co/GGRYm6RkJ9
Players win big when payments win too ⚡
Lightning Network delivers instant payments with no chargebacks or credit card fees.
Seamless play meets seamless pay. Game on!
As the Lightning liquidity marketplace matures and becomes more professional, expectations around liquidity fulfillment are getting much higher.
To keep up, we’ve had to significantly increase the speed at which orders on Magma need to be fulfilled. If you’re providing liquidity through @ambosstech Magma, we highly recommend you automate the process.
We put together a simple integration tutorial to help you get started https://t.co/pkp889IS2K
📄 Preprint: https://t.co/hQXFhTfkKW
💻 Code: https://t.co/RngPuErLVp
🤗 Dataset: https://t.co/rgDm23cGa1
Joint work with @sntonelli, @eschleptigous, @rookieengineer_, @tonyioi, @Jestopher_BTC, @vsingh_5, @emaros96
Curious whether private balance/flow data could push these results further. Would love to see others extend this.
(5/5)
Force closures on the Lightning Network = locked capital for weeks + degraded reliability.
Can we predict them using only public gossip?
We built a 2-year LN benchmark and tested everything from MLPs to temporal GNNs.
(1/5) 🧵👇
Headline: a plain MLP on edge features + per-endpoint closure history + recency features beats every graph-based model we tested.
The dominant signal is temporal & behavioral. Topology adds nothing, likely because LN privacy hides balances and payment flows.
(4/5)
1/ What is a chargeback?
You buy something with a credit card. Later, you dispute the charge with your bank. The bank then yanks the money back from the merchant (even months later) and often slaps them with fees.
This is called a chargeback. And it’s a massive hidden problem in traditional finance.
8/ The future of commerce isn’t “better dispute resolution.”
It’s removing the need for disputes in the first place by using sound, final money.
Lightning isn’t just faster/cheaper.
It’s honest money for an honest economy.