USDT went live on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network on March 21. Three infrastructure startups, backed by over $20M from Tether, ...
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 ...
BitGo will now offer Bitcoin Lightning Network access directly from its qualified custody platform. The move makes it one of the first companies to provide Lightning payments for institutional custody ...
Monthly transaction volume on the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network, a secondary layer for BTC that enables payment use cases, surpassed the $1 billion milestone in November 2025, according to a report ...
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.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino confirms USDT goes live on Bitcoin's Lightning Network via Taproot Assets, targeting 350M+ users ...
In an article on X, River Financial’s director of marketing, Sam Wouters, revealed that the Bitcoin Lightning Network processed an estimated $1.17 billion in volume in November 2025, an all-time high.
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), ...
Bitcoin’s next major leap isn’t another new blockchain, it’s speed, scale, and usability on the original one. That’s the view of Aaron Bollinger, co-founder of Voltage, a U.S.-based Bitcoin ...
One of the secondary benefits of how the Lightning Network works as a scaling solution is privacy. It’s by no means perfect or undefeatable privacy, but it is a better than naive use of the base layer ...
Lightning Labs’ Olaoluwa Osuntokun said the issue appears to be caused by a user’s machine being compromised rather than a bug or vulnerability. The chief technology officer of Lightning Labs, the ...