Building on the Lightning Network, June 24th
A recap of the panel discussion, pitch competition and company demos for Building on the Lightning Network co-hosted by Radar and Blockchain Capital.
Our goal for this event was to facilitate in-person connections within the Lightning Network community and showcase the network’s development. If you’re interested in future events sign up for ION news to get notified.
Lightning App Pitch Competition
We selected five projects from the submissions we received and invited them to come out to San Fransisco to pitch in-person in front of a panel of Judges. Each project was scored on their product usability, business viability, and application of Lightning technology.
Judge favorite:
McFly is a Lightning-as-a-Service (LaaS) custodial wallet built by the Crypto Advance team.
Crowd favorite:
Paywall.link is the minimum viable product of a service that lets users easily generate a payment-protected link to their content. See more at: https://paywall.link/
Other pitch projects:
Shine Wallet is a non-custodial, web-based, LND & C-Lightning Lightning Wallet using Blockstack to authenticate login and store credentials.
Microlancer.io is a microtask freelancing platform, allowing anyone to get help or answers for even the smallest of tasks.
Suredbits allows you to monetize APIs with the Lightning Network, it aggregates market data feeds across cryptocurrency exchanges and offers them via a uniform market data API in real time.
Special thanks to our Judges, Ben Davenport (Blockchain Capital), Jimmy Song (Blockchain Capital), Lisa Neigut (Blockstream), Caleb Tebbe (Radar) and Will Reeves (Fold/LN.Pizza).
Panel discussion: Building on Lightning
We invited Trey Griffith (Sparkswap), Valentine Wallace (Lightning Labs), Brandon Curtis (Radar), Joao Almeida (OpenNode), and Sergej Kotliar (Bitrefill)to discuss their experiences building on Lightning, moderated by Miles Suter (Square Cash App).
Hands-on demos
We invited five companies to set up demo stations for users to experience Lightning technology first hand. If you weren’t able to see their demonstrations live, check out each of these company’s website to try out their app.
Bitrefill — Bitrefill allows you to purchase gift cards or mobile refills from more than 1650 businesses in 170 countries with crypto.
Sparkswap — Sparkswap is the first cryptocurrency exchange built on Lightning Network atomic swaps. For the first time, it’s possible to make instant trades between blockchains while keeping custody of your assets.
Fold/LN.Pizza — Fold makes Bitcoin accessible and rewarding for everyone. Spend bitcoin via the Lightning Network on things you do every day and earn rewards on every purchase. Lightning Pizza enables you to order Domino’s Pizza using the Lightning Network at a discount.
Casa — Casa is the easiest way to secure and use your Bitcoin. Casa provides the tools for you to take back your financial sovereignty.
Want more apps to try? Check out the apps section on ION.
Didn’t get a chance to onboard? Head to the wallet section on ION and see how you can get started.
There are a few meetups in San Fransisco that focus on Bitcoin and Lightning if you’re in the Bay be sure to check them out.
Big thanks to our partners, Blockchain Capital, in co-hosting this event, participating companies, and all those who attended.
