lnd VS lightning

Compare lnd vs lightning and see what are their differences.

lightning

c-lightning — a Lightning Network implementation in C (by eveybcd)
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lnd lightning
248 1
7,427 1
1.1% -
9.9 0.0
7 days ago over 5 years ago
Go C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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lnd

Posts with mentions or reviews of lnd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-19.

lightning

Posts with mentions or reviews of lightning. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lnd and lightning you can also consider the following projects:

lightning - Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance

umbrel - A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5, any Ubuntu/Debian system, or a VPS.

pytorch-lightning - Pretrain, finetune and deploy AI models on multiple GPUs, TPUs with zero code changes.

awesome-lnurl - A curated list of awesome lnurl things.

loop - Lightning Loop: A Non-Custodial Off/On Chain Bridge

electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

eclair-mobile - An Android wallet for the Lightning Network

LndHub - Wrapper for Lightning Network Daemon. It provides separate accounts for end-users

circuitbreaker

Eclair - A scala implementation of the Lightning Network.

faraday - Lightning Channel Management & Optimization Tool

plugins - Community curated plugins for core-lightning