The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

The Lightning Network is a routed network of payment channels originally proposed by Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon in 2015, with major implementations having been built by Blockstream (CLN), ...

BitGo and Voltage have announced a strategic partnership that integrates the Lightning Network with BitGo’s custody infrastructure, enabling instant and low-cost Bitcoin transactions with ...

Lnfi Network, a DeFi platform on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, has integrated the RGB Protocol, enabling scalable, programmable assets on Bitcoin. Announced alongside RGB’s mainnet launch, this allows ...

Bitcoin’s scalability issues mean that smaller transactions can congest the blockchain. The Lightning Network was created to fix that. Since each block on Bitcoin’s blockchain takes an average of 10 ...

Cryptocurrency firm Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) announced the launch of USDT, the world’s most valuable stablecoin by market cap, on the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) blockchain on Thursday. What Happened: The ...

Bitcoin developers prefer to be judged by the quality of their work, not by their sex. However, female developers benefit ...

Spark, the Bitcoin Layer 2 protocol developed by Lightspark, has recently unveiled an extensive roadmap for the second quarter of 2026.

On Tuesday, Ark Labs announced the public beta launch of the highly anticipated (at least among Bitcoin purists) Arkade, which is a new upper-layer network protocol built on top of the base Bitcoin ...