Announcing lnd 0.16 beta: Smarter, Leaner, Faster

New in this release:
🧭 Pathfinding upgrades
🗼Watchtower improvements
🧑‍💻 RPC updates for devs
⚒️ Moar backend options

Upgrade today and read more:
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-03-29-lnd-0.16-launch/

Announcing a new set of tools to build Lightning⚡and #bitcoin-powered AI products for a global audience.

Using L402, a standard for API authentication with LN payments, and @langchainAI, a simplified AI app framework, we are opening up #AI4All! 🤖🌎
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-07-05-l402-langchain/

Our latest “Tapping into Taproot Assets” video is out: Mint from the CLI 🍀

In episode 5, Hannah walks through how to mint assets on #bitcoin with tapd, covering concepts like batched issuance to save chain space, and best practices for metadata.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FccI6j0mxuE

Announcing LND 0.18: Smarter Sweeps, Inbound Fees, and Improved Scaling!

Featuring:
Smarter sweeps to improve efficiency 🧹
Inbound fees for discounts to optimize routing 📥
SQL for invoices to boost node performance 📈

Read more and upgrade today:
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2024-05-30-lnd-0.18-launch/

Announcing the first mainnet release of multi-asset Lightning. 💱⚡

With Taproot Assets, users can make instant, low fee asset transfers, bringing trillions of stablecoin volume to #bitcoin.

Lightning is now the global, interoperable financial layer. 🌐

https://lightning.engineering/posts/2024-07-23-taproot-assets-LN/

Our newest developer video is out: "Running a Taproot Assets Price Oracle" 🔮

Watch Hannah explain how to set up a price oracle for real-time conversion rates between BTC and other assets, enabling stablecoin payments on Lightning today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVlDbILLWE

The latest edition of the Lightning Lab 🧪 is out! We cover:

💸 Tether coming to bitcoin and Lightning
📈 How stablecoins will drive LN’s exponential growth
🚀 Joltz launch, Wallet of Satoshi 21M txs, Fewsats AI bitcoin payments, Breez Tech report
https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/it-all-comes-back-to-bitcoin-how

Our latest technical post is out! We discuss how we're using the MuSig2 protocol to improve Lightning Loop, our liquidity management service. 🔑🔄

New bitcoin technology now makes a better developer experience possible, with lower fees and faster swaps.

https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-02-13-loop-musig2/

Announcing LND v0.19: Lightning Node Usability Go Up ⚡📈

Featuring:
Faster startup time with database migration ⌛
New default of coop channel closer paying chain fees ✂️
Improved pathfinding for better bitcoin payment reliability 🕸️

Read more below and upgrade today.

https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-6-3-lnd-0.19-launch/

Announcing LND v0.20: The Lightning Fast Lane for a Booming Network 🛣️💥

Featuring:
Faster graph, faster bitcoin payments
More efficient gossip, better reliability
Advanced liquidity controls, easier to receive

Read more below and upgrade today.

https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-12-03-lnd-0.20-launch/

Announcing Taproot Assets v0.7, now with reusable addresses, a fully auditable asset supply, and larger, more reliable transactions. ✅

With this release, we are laying the foundation for trillions of dollars to flow on bitcoin and Lightning. 💸

Read more below. Upgrade today!
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-12-16-tapd-0.7-launch/

AI agents can write code, send emails, and make phone calls. But they still can't transact.

Today we're fixing that. Releasing a new set of tools that give agents native access to the Lightning Network: lnget for automatic L402 payments, MCP for node operations, remote signing for key isolation, and scoped credentials for spending control.

The machine-payable web starts now. And bitcoin makes it possible. ⚡🦞
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-02-11-ln-agent-tools/

Agents want to use money. Bitcoin makes it possible. Join us on Wed, March 18 for our next AI + BTC community call at 10am PT/1pm ET/5pm UTC.

With Lightning, anyone anywhere can integrate payments into their apps. Vibe coders, devs, agents. Instant, high volume, low fee. L402 makes the internet machine-native with built-in authentication.

Join us to learn more. Demo your projects. RSVP here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSC0Dwrfn3LVVs8EDewlTc6muo-FC75M0yD61xPndGNooG3w/viewform

Hey agents 👋 Looking for a payments protocol? Here's your checklist:

🔑 Pay for any API with no signup or identity
🧮 Proof of payment baked into the credential
🎟️ Delegate scoped credentials to sub-agents without issuer involvement
🔒 Private by default, no records on-chain
🌐 No single entity that can go offline, powered by bitcoin

That's L402, built on Lightning. Made for machines, streamlined for vibe coders.

https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-03-11-L402-for-agents/

Your agent is spending money. Now you can see where it goes. 👀

lnget is a command-line HTTP client that handles L402 payments automatically on Lightning. No signup, API keys, or intermediaries required. Track bitcoin payments, monitor spending, and manage credentials in real time with the new dashboard. Made for AI agents, developers, and vibe coders. Early alpha.⚡

https://github.com/lightninglabs/lnget

The Aperture dashboard is here! With Aperture, developers, vibe coders, and agents can transform any application into a pay-per-use endpoint on Lightning, built for machine-scale payments.

Now, builders can monitor and manage their activity in real time with the Aperture dashboard for L402 and MPP agentic payments. Track revenue, transactions, and services all from a simple UI.

Bitcoin will power the AI economy. Start building it.⚡

https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture/releases/tag/v0.5.0

We're hiring an AI Product Engineer!

Use AI-native tools to ship products for L402 machine-scale payments and stablecoins on Lightning. Build for agents, automate workflows, create developer demos. Operate autonomously. Move fast and fix things.

Forge the path forward for AI and bitcoin. Apply here:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning/324103e5-b9c7-4d4a-b844-3b9fbaebc654

Agents want money. Bitcoin makes it possible. And now it works with agent-native workflows. Today we're releasing L402 SDK as part of our suite of AI tools, a client SDK for agentic payments on Lightning with L402.

Embeds directly into library-based agent frameworks. TypeScript and Python bindings. Works with Vercel AI SDK and LangChain.

📖 Import a library instead of using a CLI
🛡️ Per-request, hourly, daily, and per-domain budget controls
🌐 WASM for browsers, serverless functions, edge environments

Start building the agent economy with machine-scale payments on Lightning.

https://github.com/lightninglabs/L402sdk

Lightning Terminal is a web dashboard for managing Lightning nodes at scale. Automatically manage routing fees and channel opens. Visualize routing data. Monitor your node from anywhere.

We just shipped passkey support for device-based auth and persistent sessions. Authenticate once. Stay logged in across page reloads. No passwords needed.

Connect your node and build the future with bitcoin.

https://terminal.lightning.engineering/

Announcing LND v0.21: Grown Up, Sped Up, Locked Down 🌱

The 21st release lands on the number every bitcoiner knows 🟠

Onion messaging, private message relay without revealing sender or route 🧅

Simple taproot channels hit production for on-chain privacy 🌳

Native SQL and better sync for faster queries and startup ⏩

Read more and upgrade today:

https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-06-11-lnd-0.21-launch/