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(https://godoc.org/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd)
The Lightning Network Daemon (lnd
) - is a complete implementation of a
Lightning Network node and currently
deployed on testnet4
- the Bitcoin Test Network. It utilizes an
upcoming upgrade to Bitcoin: Segregated Witness (segwit
). The
project's codebase uses the btcsuite set
of Bitcoin libraries, and is currently dependant on btcd.
In the current state lnd
is capable of:
- creating channels
- closing channels
- completely managing all channel states (including the exceptional ones!)
- maintaining a fully authenticated+validated channel graph
- performing path finding within the network, passively forwarding incoming payments
- sending outgoing onion-encrypted payments through the network
lnd
doesn't yet fully conform to the Lightning Network specification
(BOLT's). BOLT stands
for: Basic of Lightning Technologies. The specifications are currently being drafted
by several groups of implementers based around the world including the
developers of lnd
. The set of specification documents as well as our
implementation of the specification are still a work-in-progress. With that
said, lnd
the current status of lnd
's BOLT compliance is:
- BOLT 1: Base Protocol
lnd
currently utilizes a distinct wire format which was created before the emgergence of the current draft of BOLT specifications. We don't have aninit
message, but we do have analogues to all the other defined message types.
- BOLT 2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
lnd
implements all the functionality defined within the document, however we currently use a different set of wire messages. Additionally,lnd
uses a distinct commitment update state-machine and doesn't yet support dynamically updating commitment fees.
- BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
lnd
currently uses a commitment design from a prior iteration of the protocol. Revocation secret generation is handled byelkrem
and our scripts are slightly different.
- BOLT 4: Onion Routing Protocol
- BOLT 5: Recommendations for On-chain Transaction Handling
- BOLT 7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery
- BOLT 8: Encrypted and Authenticated Transport
In order to build form source, the following build dependencies are required:
-
Go: Installation instructions can be found here.
It is recommended to add
$GOPATH/bin
to yourPATH
at this point. Note: If you are building withGo 1.5
, then you'll need to enable the vendor experiment by setting theGO15VENDOREXPERIMENT
environment variable to1
. If you're usingGo 1.6
or later, then it is safe to skip this step. -
Glide: This project uses
Glide
to manage dependencies as well as to provide reproducible builds. To installGlide
, execute the following command (assumes you already have Go properly installed):$ go get -u github.com/Masterminds/glide
-
btcd: This project currently requires
btcd
with segwit support, which is not yet merged into the master branch. Instead, roasbeef maintains a fork with his segwit implementation applied. To install, please see the installation instructions.
With the preliminary steps completed, to install lnd
, lncli
, and all
related dependencies run the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
$ glide install
$ go install . ./cmd/...
To update your version of lnd
to the latest version run the following
commands:
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
$ git pull && glide install
$ go install . ./cmd/...
To check that lnd
was installed properly run the following command:
go install; go test -v -p 1 $(go list ./... | grep -v '/vendor/')
- irc.freenode.net
- channel #lnd
- webchat