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The Lightning Network Daemon (lnd), is a complete implementation of a Lightning Network node. lnd has several pluggable back-end chain services including btcd (a full-node), bitcoind, and neutrino (a new experimental light client). The project's codebase uses the btcsuite set of Bitcoin libraries and also exports a large set of isolated re-usable Lightning Network-related libraries within it, and fully conforms to the Lightning Network specification (BOLTs). BOLT stands for Basis of Lightning Technology. The specifications are currently being drafted by several groups of implementers based around the world including the developers of lnd. The set of specification documents as well as our implementation of the specification is still a work in progress. The daemon has been designed to be as developer-friendly as possible in order to facilitate application development on top of lnd. Two primary RPC interfaces are exported, an HTTP REST API, and a gRPC service.
Features
- 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
- Updating advertised fee schedules
- Automatic channel management (autopilot)
