lnd — Lightning Labs

Lightning Resources
1 min readMar 12, 2017

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The Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) - is a complete implementation of a Lightning Network node and currently deployed on testnet4 - the Bitcoin Test Network. It utilizes an upcoming upgrade to Bitcoin: Segregated Witness (segwit). The project's codebase uses the btcsuite set of Bitcoin libraries, and is currently dependant on btcd. In the current state lnd is capable of:* creating channels* closing channels* completely managing all channel states (including the exceptional ones!)* maintaining a fully authenticated+validated channel graph* performing path finding within the network, passively forwarding incoming payments* sending outgoing onion-encrypted payments through the network

Project repository:
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd

Project website(s):
http://lightning.network/
http://lightning.community/

Active developers:

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Lightning Resources

An information page about the Lightning Network protocol, a scalable transaction cache layer for Bitcoin