SUMMARY.md

Table of contents

• Welcome to the Builder's Guide to the LND Galaxy!

The Lightning Network

• Overview
• Payment Channels
  • Lifecycle of a Payment Channel
  • Watchtowers
  • Etymology
• The Gossip Network
  • Identifying Good Peers on the Lightning Network
• Pathfinding
  • Finding routes in the Lightning Network
  • Channel Fees
  • Multipath Payments (MPP)
• Lightning Network Invoices
  • Understanding Lightning Invoices
• Making Payments
  • The Payment Cycle
  • Timelocks
  • ⭐ Hashed Timelock Contract (HTLC)
  • Payment Etymology
  • ⭐ What Makes a Good Routing Node
  • Understanding Submarine Swaps
• Liquidity
  • ⭐ Understanding Liquidity
  • Managing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
  • How to get inbound capacity on the Lightning Network
  • Lightning Service Provider
• L402: Lightning HTTP 402 Protocol
  • Macaroons
  • L402
  • Aperture
  • 📋 Protocol Specification
  • Implementations and Links
• Taproot Assets
  • Taproot Assets Protocol
  • Taproot Assets on Lightning
  • FAQ

Lightning Network Tools

• LND
  • 🛠 Get Started
  • lnd.conf
  • First Steps With LND
  • Wallet Management
  • Sending Payments
  • Atomic Multi-path Payments (AMP)
  • Receiving Payments
  • Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions
  • Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions
  • Channel Fees
  • Macaroons
  • Configuring Watchtowers
  • Pathfinding
  • Key Import
  • Secure Your Lightning Network Node
  • Operational Safety
  • Optimal Configuration of a Routing Node
  • Quick Tor Setup
  • Configuring Tor
  • Enable ‘Neutrino mode’ in Bitcoin Core
  • Send Messages With Keysend
  • Debugging LND
  • Fuzzing LND
  • LND and etcd
  • gRPC API
  • Channel Acceptor
  • RPC Middleware Interceptor
  • HTLC Interceptor
  • Clustering
  • NAT Traversal
  • Recovery: Planning for Failure
  • Migrating LND
  • Disaster recovery
• Lightning Terminal
  • What is Lightning Terminal?
  • 🛠 Get litd
  • Run litd
  • Integrating litd
  • Connect to Terminal
  • Recommended Channels
  • Health Checks
  • Opening Lightning Network Channels
  • Managing Channel Liquidity
  • Autofees
  • LND Accounts
  • Loop and Lightning Terminal
  • Loop Fees
  • Pool and Lightning Terminal
  • Command Line Interface
  • Troubleshooting
  • Lightning Node Connect: Under the hood
  • LNC Node Package
  • LNC Mailbox
  • Privacy and Security
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
• Loop
  • 🛠 Get Started
  • The Loop CLI
  • gRPC API
  • Autoloop
  • Peer with Loop
• Pool
  • Overview
  • Quickstart
  • 🛠 Installation
  • First Steps
  • Accounts
  • Orders and Asks
  • Sidecar Channels
  • Zero-confirmation channels
  • Channel Leases
  • Batch Execution
  • Account Recovery
  • gRPC API
  • FAQs
• Taproot Assets
  • Get Started
  • First Steps
• Faraday
  • 🛠 Get Started
  • The Faraday CLI

LAPPs

• Guides
  • Use Polar to Build Your First LAPP
    • Setup: Local Cluster with Polar
    • Setup: Run the Completed App
    • Setup: Run the App Without LND
  • Add Features
    • Feature 1: Connect to LND
    • Feature 2: Display Node Alias and Balance
    • Feature 3: Sign and Verify Posts
    • Feature 4: Modify Upvote Action
  • Make your own LNC-powered application
• Next Steps

Community Resources

• Resource List
• Lightning Bulb 💡
• Glossary
• FAQ