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 The Lightning Network Daemon (`lnd`) - is a complete implementation of a
-[Lightning Network](https://lightning.network) node and currently deployed on
-`testnet3` - the Bitcoin Test Network.  `lnd` has several pluggable back-end
+[Lightning Network](https://lightning.network) node.  `lnd` has several pluggable back-end
 chain services including [`btcd`](https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd) (a
 full-node), [`bitcoind`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin), and
 [`neutrino`](https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino) (a new experimental light client). The project's codebase uses the