Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, and Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs Fireside chat at the Plan₿ Forum in El Salvador (Jan 30, 2025). On Jan 30, 2025, at the inaugural PlanB Forum in El Salvador, ...

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 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), ...

Lightning Network capacity hit a new ATH of 5,606 BTC worth ~$500 million as exchanges increase crypto adoption, with Amboss reporting a peak of 5,637 BTC. Lightning channel and node counts remained ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the longest running criticisms of Bitcoin is that it cannot function as everyday money. The network’s proof of work design is energy intensive, transactions can take minutes to confirm, and ...