Philip Hayes

crypto engineer - co-founder of @lexeapp - prev. protocol engineer @ Diem (Libra)

[Philip Hayes @phlip9]

@maxfangx and I been cooking a little somethin 👀

It's a new kind of lightning wallet ⚡️ that runs in a secure enclave in the cloud. We never see your keys. Receive payments whenever. Never think about channels again. Check it out : )

[Lexe @lexeapp]

Our website is up and our main repository has been open-sourced! Lexe is still in development, but you can now:

- learn more about our product
- read the code (we ❤️ Rust!)
- sign up for email updates
- join our Discord

Take a look! https://t.co/t8zozh6vDV 👀

[Lexe @lexeapp]

Announcing Buy with Cash App!

Buy Bitcoin instantly, directly into your self-custodial Lexe Wallet.

@CashApp charges <1% fees and sends the Bitcoin directly into your wallet via the Lightning Network.

Watch the full flow in 20 seconds:

[Lexe @lexeapp]

Introducing the Lexe CLI.

Only three commands to a self-custodial mainnet Lightning wallet:

$ curl -fsSL https://t.co/PAbJfckwBg | bash
$ lexe init
$ lexe create-invoice

It runs in an enclave, is always online, is hosted for free, and only you hold the keys. 20 second demo 👇

[Lexe @lexeapp]

Announcing the first ever public release of Lexe Wallet on the App Store and Google Play! This release comes with new features and fresh SDKs for creating and controlling self-custodial Lightning wallets - real channels managed by always-online Lightning nodes running inside secure hardware.

In the video below, we open a Python shell and hand-type commands to create a self-custodial Lightning wallet on Bitcoin mainnet, fund it, and make payments - in just 3 minutes. Full announcement in the next post 👇

[Lexe @lexeapp]

We just released a new AI prompt that takes you from a completely empty @Replit instance to mainnet Lightning payments in just three prompts, now with webhooks for instant notifications.

0 to Lightning in 3 prompts, 3 minutes.
0 to Lightning app in 6 prompts, 7 minutes.

Watch:

[Vincenzo Palazzo @PalazzoVincenzo]

@lexeapp bolt12 support is working like a charm with the @ocean_mining payout :)

[Spiral @spiral_xyz]

In this case study, @lexeapp CEO @MaxFangX shows how @lightningdevkit plus secure enclaves power reliable, always-on Lightning wallets without Lexe holding your keys.

Article: https://t.co/N097CbUDHr

Spotify: https://t.co/iD87qH1Pti

Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/H7LI9MrJP0

[Philip Hayes @phlip9]

@RossComputerGuy my nvim+nix setup's been working well for me. all plugins and tools are managed via nix ofc, but the local init.lua and other config is handed to nvim via mkOutOfStoreSymlink, so hot reload works. editing configs w/o hot reload is pretty awful imo

https://t.co/Dx4gkLFkyH

[Lexe @lexeapp]

Lexe now supports BIP 177! Everywhere in our app, we now use the Bitcoin symbol ₿ instead of the word "sats". See the before and after of our amount input page - we believe the new design is just cleaner, and ₿ is the future.

Update Lexe to app-v0.8.7+22 to enjoy BIP177!

[Lexe @lexeapp]

Announcing Lexe's Sidecar SDK!

First revealed at the @PresidioBitcoin hackathon, Lexe's Sidecar SDK makes it extremely easy to build apps which send and receive Lightning 24/7. Here's a video of Lexe dev @phlip9 vibe coding a Lightning tip page in less than 3 minutes: 🚀⏩

[Philip Hayes @phlip9]

@TheBlueMatt ahh gotcha, maybe BDK makes sense? rust-bitcoin feels more foundational / lower risk tolerance.

on another note, if this crate could replace our internal `payment-uri` crate that would be awesome (https://t.co/W5pPahBLAh)

[Philip Hayes @phlip9]

@TheBlueMatt fyi the package repo link 404's to https://t.co/RDlB2cAhTM😢

[Lexe @lexeapp]

We just published v0.4.0, our first bit-for-bit reproducible node release, along with build instructions!

257 million 1s and 0s, 100% of which you can independently recreate on your own machine 🤯

We encourage you to try reproducing the node yourself!

https://t.co/ega9hi6e4Z

[Philip Hayes @phlip9]

any @stacker_news enjoyers? come check out our @lexeapp AMA, we'll be hanging out here for the next hour or so :) https://t.co/FinlTEJyHq

[Philip Hayes @phlip9]

YO @carl_dong droppin some 🔥

Can't wait to try it out!

[Carl Dong → obscura.com @carl_dong]

I'm BEYOND excited to finally announce Obscura.

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Learn more and be the first to use Obscura!

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[Philip Hayes @phlip9]

@moneyball @lexeapp @lightningdevkit Huge shoutouts to @lightningdevkit - @lexeapp wouldn't be possible without it! ❤️

[Avihu Levy ✨🐺 @avihu28]

Two companies in the world are working on STARKs:
StarkWare and...
Facebook:

https://t.co/y5YFlqxiue

[Philip Hayes @phlip9]

@pwuille https://t.co/PFeapZP83x

[George Danezis @GDanezis]

Tech report on "FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement" is online (https://t.co/Vt6Nm3fDRq) along with prototype code (https://t.co/nXbDdTZ1KB). We show Byzantine Fault Tolerant settlement can scale up to global retail payments volumes.

[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

Excited with the progress of @Libra_ in the last 9 months. I keep on thinking about all the people and small businesses that could benefit from the Libra Network already being operational — especially now during these times of unprecedented hardship. 1/8