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elkrem | ||
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lnwallet | ||
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lnd.go | ||
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peer_test.go | ||
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lnd
- the Lightning Network Daemon
[] (https://travis-ci.org/lightningnetwork/lnd) [] (https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/LICENSE)
lnd
is a complete implementation of a node on the Lightning
Network. lnd
is currently deployed on the Bitcoin Test
Network (testnet4) and utilizes an upcoming upgrade to Bitcoin: Segregated
Witness. The project's codebase uses the
btcsuite set of Bitcoin libraries, and is
currently dependant on btcd.
The Lightning Network Daemon (lnd
) is capable of: creating channels, closing
channels, 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, and
sending outgoing onion-encrypted
payments through the
network.
Lightning Network Specification Compliance
lnd
doesn't yet fully conform to the Lightning Network specification
(BOLT's). BOLT stands for:
Basic of Lightning Technologies. 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 are still a work-in-progress. With that
said, lnd
the current status of lnd
's BOLT compliance is:
- BOLT 1: Base Protocol
lnd
currently utilizes a distinct wire format which was created before the emgergence of the current draft of BOLT specifications. We don't have aninit
message, but we do have analogues to all the other defined message types.
- BOLT 2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
lnd
implements all the functionality defined within the document, however we currently use a different set of wire messages. Additionally,lnd
uses a distinct commitment update state-machine and doesn't yet support dynamically updating commitment fees.
- BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
lnd
currently uses a commitment design from a prior iteration of the protocol. Revocation secret generation is handled byelkrem
and our scripts are slightly different.
- BOLT 4: Onion Routing Protocol
- BOLT 5: Recommendations for On-chain Transaction Handling
- BOLT 7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery
- BOLT 8: Encrypted and Authenticated Transport
Installation
- In order to build form source, the following build dependencies are required:
-
Go 1.5 or 1.6
Installation instructions can be found here: http://golang.org/doc/install. It is recommended to add
$GOPATH/bin
to yourPATH
at this point. Note: If you are building with Go 1.5, then you'll need to enable the vendor experiment by setting theGO15VENDOREXPERIMENT
environment variable to1
. If you're using Go 1.6 or later, then it is safe to skip this step. -
Glide
This project uses
Glide
to manage dependencies as well as to provide reproducible builds. To installGlide
, execute the following command (assumes you already have Go properly installed):$ go get -u github.com/Masterminds/glide
-
btcd
This project currently requires
btcd
with segwit support, which is not yet merged into the master branch. Instead, roasbeef maintains a fork with his segwit implementation applied. To install, please see the installation instructions.
-
With the preliminary steps completed, to install lnd
, lncli
, and all
related dependencies run the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
$ glide install
$ go install . ./cmd/...
Updating
To update your version of lnd
to the latest version run the following
commands:
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
$ git pull && glide install
$ go install . ./cmd/...
IRC
- irc.freenode.net
- channel #lnd
- webchat
License
lnd
is licensed under the MIT license.