TL; DR: No delays when launching the app (network sync, route calculation, etc). Open the app and pay instantly, as simple as that! Let’s imagine that you’re using Lightning to pay for your morning coffee. Every morning when you open your Lightning wallet, you need to sync network updates. This…

TL; DR: Each time channels are updated, Phoenix sends an encrypted version of their data to its peer. This allows for easy backup/restore of channels while maintaining privacy. On a traditional Bitcoin wallet, backup is as simple as writing down a list of words, once and for all. It is…

TL; DR: When you receive a Lightning payment, we will automatically and instantly create a channel to you if needed, solving the inbound liquidity issue. Let’s suppose you just installed Phoenix. Your balance is zero, you have no channels. How can you receive your first payment? …

TL; DR: Phoenix is a non-custodial Lightning Wallet that offers the same UX as a good old Bitcoin wallet. Today we are releasing Phoenix, a 2nd-generation mobile Lightning Wallet. Why do you call it a 2nd-generation wallet? When we first announced Eclair Mobile back in 2017, we chose to make it a standard Bitcoin wallet with opt-in Lightning…

TL; DR: We have enabled receive on Eclair Mobile Testnet 0.4.0, with a background watcher mechanism and a basic liquidity service. In our last blog post we explained the reasons which led us to limit Eclair Mobile to only sending money until now. There were three of them: For mobile…

TL; DR: Eclair Wallet is now Eclair Mobile, with background routing sync and custom Electrum server support. Reception of funds over Lightning will be enabled in 2019. We decided to rename Eclair Wallet to Eclair Mobile because the former name was too generic and regularly caused confusion among our users…

TL; DR: Latest release of Eclair Wallet Testnet includes automated encrypted backups using Google Drive. Will be rolled out to mainnet ASAP. A bit #Reckless until now Until now, upon installing Eclair Wallet for Android, a huge scary disclaimer warned users that funds allocated to Lightning channels weren’t being backed up. In other words, funds…

TL; DR: We are releasing Strike, an API and dashboard that makes it easy to accept Lightning payments on Bitcoin Mainnet. Fee is 1% and automated withdrawals are free. A few months ago we announced Strike, an easy to use, stripe-like API for Lightning. …

Two weeks ago, PR #410 was merged into eclair’s master branch. This pull request added support for “Data loss protection”, one of the features we absolutely wanted to implement in eclair before going on mainnet. Why is it such a big deal? One of the tricky thing with Lightning is…