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Lightning⚡ is best known as a network for fast bitcoin payments. But what if the same infrastructure could also carry private messages?
That’s the idea behind onion messages🧅. They rely on onion encryption, a technique where data is wrapped in multiple layers of encryption, like layers of an onion. As the message travels through the network, each node removes just one layer, learning only where the message came from and where it should go next. No single node ever sees the full route or the original sender and final recipient.
In this article, @Thevelopher explores how onion messages work, how they differ from traditional payment routing, and how they’re being implemented in LND. The piece also looks at why this small protocol change could turn Lightning into more than just a payment network.
If you’re curious about how Lightning might evolve into a private communication layer, read the full blog to learn more: https://t.co/SaVnYL4jzT