IMMORTAN LIBRARY & HOSTED CHANNEL
A week ago, our team member
@Africas Largest Bitcoin Owner (ALBO) gave a talk at the 13th Socratic seminar of the #bitdev community in Abuja, Nigeria, during the monthly Bitcoin developers meetup.
During the session, he introduced IMMORTAN Library and Hosted channels, the two Lightning implementations designed to foster Bitcoin adoption in local communities by advancing self-custodial mobile Lightning usage and cost-effective, community-focused Lightning onboarding.
Immortan is a lightweight, mobile Lightning library with advanced privacy features, robust channel-recovery options, and redundancy against frequent force-channel closures.
Hosted channel, on the other hand, is a custodial Lightning channel protocol specification. Hosted channels enable anonymous custodial channels to be opened by any node (Host).
Like a normal Lightning channel, Hosted channels are fully private because preimage generation, onion formation, and route finding all still happen on the client side, whilst the Host (routing Node) holds the funds and does the job of forwarding payments for the client.
Valet Bitcoin is a wallet software that currently runs on Immortan Library and Hosted channels, forked and maintained by
@Standard Sats.
Learn more about Immortan Library and Hosted channels by checking out the project GitHub links:
IMMORTAN LIBRARY:
GitHub
GitHub - standardsats/immortan: The first mobile-optimized Lightning Network library written in Scala
The first mobile-optimized Lightning Network library written in Scala - standardsats/immortan
HOSTED CHANNELS:
GitHub
GitHub - standardsats/hosted-channels-rfc: Hosted Lightning channel specifications
Hosted Lightning channel specifications. Contribute to standardsats/hosted-channels-rfc development by creating an account on GitHub.
Install Valet from
@F-Droid,
@Zapstore, or directly from GitHub, and try out Hosted channels:
https://github.com/standardsats/valet/releases.
We invite everyone to join the discussions and contribute to this project. Join us on Telegram chat, where we share insights and build this together:
Telegram
Standard Sats Community
You can view and join @StandardSatsCommunity right away.
Big shout out to the organizers of #bitdev #Abuja for the opportunity to share our work with the community, and particularly
@Btrust, for powering these interactive and impactful metups across multiple cities in Africa.
#bitcoin #bitdev #lightning
