Top 15 Rust lightning-network Projects

rust-lightning

1 3 1,258 9.9 Rust

A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!

Project mention: L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-15
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fedimint

2 28 610 10.0 Rust

Federated E-Cash Mint
mostro

3 2 230 9.0 Rust

Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform on Nostr
rgb-core

4 6 213 8.3 Rust

RGB Core Library: consensus validation for private & scalable client-validated smart contracts on Bitcoin & Lightning
notedeck

5 0 213 9.9 Rust

The nostr browser
agora

6 11 191 0.0 Rust

File server that accepts Lightning Network payments for downloads (by agora-org)
rust-teos

7 1 148 3.7 Rust

The Eye of Satoshi - Lightning Watchtower
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InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
squeakroad

8 1 45 0.0 Rust

Open source darknet market with lightning network payments
mostro-cli

9 0 28 8.8 Rust

Mostro P2P cli client
askeladd

10 0 20 8.2 Rust

Powering Verifiable Computation for Nostr Data Vending Machines.
rustdress

11 0 16 7.1 Rust

Self hosted Lightning Address Server
Lightning-Lending

12 0 14 9.3 Rust

Open/close channel on Lightning Network using Nostr and DLCs
mostro-core

13 0 7 9.1 Rust

common types used by mostro and clients
Lightning-lending-PoC

14 0 5 1.4 Rust

Simple Proof of Concept on Lightning lending
satsbox

15 0 2 7.2 Rust

Nostr friendly bitcoin lightning custodial wallet service.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

Rust lightning-network discussion

Rust lightning-network related posts

L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure

8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2024
No-KYC P2P Lightning Exchange on Nostr – Mostro.network

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024
Current state of exchanges

1 project | /r/Bitcoin | 10 Dec 2023
What are peoples’ thoughts on collaborative custody?

1 project | /r/Bitcoin | 2 Jul 2023
How would crypto work when we become a space society

1 project | /r/CryptoCurrency | 27 Jun 2023
I started a podcast to demystify Bitcoin.

1 project | /r/Bitcoin | 19 Jun 2023
What’s the latest on Fediment?

1 project | /r/Bitcoin | 20 May 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source lightning-network projects in Rust? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	rust-lightning	1,258
2	fedimint	610
3	mostro	230
4	rgb-core	213
5	notedeck	213
6	agora	191
7	rust-teos	148
8	squeakroad	45
9	mostro-cli	28
10	askeladd	20
11	rustdress	16
12	Lightning-Lending	14
13	mostro-core	7
14	Lightning-lending-PoC	5
15	satsbox	2