Secure Digital Markets moves $1M via Bitcoin's Lightning Network to Kraken, marking the first public seven-figure institutional transfer.

A cryptocurrency trading company completed a $1 million payment using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network on Jan. 28, 2026, finishing ...

Secure Digital Markets and Kraken completed a $1 million Bitcoin pilot settlement over the Lightning Network—claimed as the ...

SDM’s $1M Lightning payment to Kraken tested whether Bitcoin’s layer 2 can handle institutional‑scale settlement as capacity, ...

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 ...

San Salvador, El Salvador, January 30th, 2026, FinanceWireRailsX empowers users with complete freedom to transact at scale ...

Amboss Technologies launches RailsX, a Lightning-native P2P DEX executing trades directly on Bitcoin's network without custodians.

Bitcoin’s scalability issues mean that smaller transactions can congest the blockchain. The Lightning Network was created to fix that. Since each block on Bitcoin’s blockchain takes an average of 10 ...

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), ...

Tether, which claims to be one of the largest companies in the digital assets industry, announced the integration of USDt into Bitcoin’s ecosystem, including its base layer and the Lightning Network.

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 ...

In 2012, soon after Graham Krizek discovered Bitcoin and subsequently began contributing to Bitcoin Core and building his own applications on Bitcoin, he noticed an issue that was hindering Bitcoin ...