bitromortac⚡

Dev of lndmanage, a channel tool for LND (rebalance, recommends nodes, reports, ...). Interested in LN research. @lightning

[bitromortac⚡ @bitromortac]

Released a new version of lndmanage v0.14.2, which replaces internal channel opening with the safer lnd batchopen api. Please consider upgrading, don't open channels with older versions.

[bitromortac⚡ @bitromortac]

Please don't use lndmanage for channel openings. Under some circumstances this may lead to locked funds (recoverable via chantools). A fix is being worked on.

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Announcing Wavelength, the easiest way to integrate bitcoin for agents and humans. 〰️⚡

With a simple non-custodial API, anyone can integrate Lightning into their app and get instant, high volume, low fee transactions. Machines can pay machines. Humans can pay humans. Anywhere.

The future of agentic money is ours to build.

Learn more: https://t.co/49VpSaGA2G

Start building it: https://t.co/CKfusJBoZz

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Announcing LND v0.21: Grown Up, Sped Up, Locked Down 🌱

The 21st release lands on the number every bitcoiner knows 🟠

Onion messaging, private message relay without revealing sender or route 🧅

Simple taproot channels hit production for on-chain privacy 🌳

Native SQL and better sync for faster queries and startup ⏩

Read more and upgrade today: https://t.co/DZwJEIfhof

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Hey agents 👋 Looking for a payments protocol? Here's your checklist:

🔑 Pay for any API with no signup or identity
🧮 Proof of payment baked into the credential
🎟️ Delegate scoped credentials to sub-agents without issuer involvement
🔒 Private by default, no records on-chain
🌐 No single entity that can go offline, powered by bitcoin

That's L402, built on Lightning. Made for machines, streamlined for vibe coders.

https://t.co/OZDGwAqvBc

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

Human attention is scarce. Tokens are not.

Give your AI agent Bitcoin, Lightning, and L402 superpowers with this prompt

🤖🦞⚡️

[Olaoluwa Osuntokun @roasbeef]

waay back in 2020, I designed the L402 protocol to solve authentication+payments on the web for machines 🤖 -> https://t.co/VRcO8bdsiw

flash forward to 2026, and now the machines are intelligent, kicking off a new era of personal AI agents

with the latest advancements in AI, the L402 protocol is more relevant than ever

today we're releasing a suite of CLIs, skills, and MCP servers to enable agents to *securely* transact on the web ⚡️

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

AI agents can write code, send emails, and make phone calls. But they still can't transact.

Today we're fixing that. Releasing a new set of tools that give agents native access to the Lightning Network: lnget for automatic L402 payments, MCP for node operations, remote signing for key isolation, and scoped credentials for spending control.

The machine-payable web starts now. And bitcoin makes it possible. ⚡🦞

https://t.co/B0KW01l6ZD

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

We're hiring a frontend developer at @lightning Labs!

The ideal candidate is:
- Passionate about Bitcoin/Lightning ⚡️
- Experienced with NextJS, React, MobX 🖥️
- Using AI development tooling 🤖
- A self-reliant problem solver 💪🏽

Apply below to join the best team in Bitcoin!

[Oli @guggero]

Don't know how to recover a zombie Lightning Channel?
Check out the new interactive guide for chantools:

https://t.co/3ljZhj7dGC

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

1/11: With the latest release of Lightning Terminal, users can interact with Autopilot functionality through a new tab specifically designed for easy, simple setup of AutoFees and AutoOpen. 

Check it out and connect your node today!

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

🚨Lightning Node Operators🚨

If you have excess inbound, you should peer with Loop. There's a massive opportunity to earn meaningful non-custodial yield simply by peering with Loop, setting sane fees, and Looping In to keep the channel alive.

Read the guide below for more details 👀

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

The latest release of Lightning Terminal includes Sankey diagrams of forwarding flows between your node’s top routes. Terminal continues to make strides on helping node operators better understand their data and, thus, their node.

Check it out! https://t.co/hF3B3wV7vv

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

We’re excited to release Taproot Assets v0.6 to make Lightning a decentralized FX layer for stablecoins on bitcoin. 💱💸

With larger, more reliable transactions, we're one step closer to trillions of dollars flowing on Lightning. ⚡📈

Read more below.

[Olaoluwa Osuntokun @roasbeef]

b-b-b-but no one uses Lightning! 🤣

blocks may not be full, but a large portion of traffic has migrated off-chain, growing at a steady rate

...what if I told you, that anyone can join the LN, deposit some sats, and compete w/ the likes of Block? ⚡️

at @Lightning Labs we've built out key tooling to automate a large portion of the toil of node operation 🧵

[Olaoluwa Osuntokun @roasbeef]

Taproot Assets are just UTXOs 🧩

This enables them to be easily integrated into any higher level Bitcoin protocol! The composition opportunities are endless ✨

As an open protocol, w/ an open source implementation, it fuels permissionless innovation across layers 🚀

[Alex Bosworth @alexbosworth]

Recently in Lightning Loop, you may have noticed elevated Loop Out fees

It's not due to a change in the service fee which is 0.1%, but due to the range of router node fees increasing from a norm of 0.1%-0.3% up to now 0.3%-0.5%

Increases should be temporary as liquidity adjusts

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

1/7: Lightning Node Operators say they spend too much time researching which nodes to open channels towards.

So, in Lightning Terminal, we introduced AutoOpen, a tool to automatically open channels designed to improve betweenness-centrality and lower costs. 

🧵⚡️

[Ryan Gentry @RyanTheGentry]

Last year, I left bitcoin++ very excited about theoretical applications for covenants: from GSR, to MATT, to different ways to build ln-symmetry.

This year, I left OP_Next excited about the practical ways to build and test covenants-based applications:

[Oli @guggero]

running `chantools sweepremoteclosed` on the latest version (v0.13.6): https://t.co/v3qnLaq6Dq

There are over 2.5k channels and over 10 BTC unspent! Big thanks to LNBIG for providing the data necessary and MrDonty for the idea/initiative.

Please RT for visibility!

[Ryan Gentry @RyanTheGentry]

The Lightning Network has proven itself as the world's most decentralized, fastest settling, and lowest cost payments network. ⚡️

With today's announcement, we're adding the world's most popular stablecoin to the world's best payments network.

LN + USDT = 🚀 🚀 🚀

[Olaoluwa Osuntokun @roasbeef]

the moment we've all been waiting for...USDT is coming back to Bitcoin via Taproot Assets!!! 🎉⛓️🌎💸

w/ stablecoins on the Lightning Network, the network evolves into an instant + low fee currency agnostic payments network, all backed by the Bitcoin Backbone of the network