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In this commit, we fix a very old, lingering bug within the link. When accepting an HTLC we are meant to validate the fee against the constraints of the *outgoing* link. This is due to the fact that we're offering a payment transit service on our outgoing link. Before this commit, we would use the policies of the *incoming* link. This would at times lead to odd routing errors as we would go to route, get an error update and then route again, repeating the process. With this commit, we'll properly use the incoming link for timelock related constraints, and the outgoing link for fee related constraints. We do this by introducing a new HtlcSatisfiesPolicy method in the link. This method should return a non-nil error if the link can carry the HTLC as it satisfies its current forwarding policy. We'll use this method now at *forwarding* time to ensure that we only forward to links that actually accept the policy. This fixes a number of bugs that existed before that could result in a link accepting an HTLC that actually violated its policy. In the case that the policy is violated for *all* links, we take care to return the error returned by the *target* link so the caller can update their sending accordingly. In this commit, we also remove the prior linkControl channel in the channelLink. Instead, of sending a message to update the internal link policy, we'll use a mutex in place. This simplifies the code, and also adds some necessary refactoring in anticipation of the next follow up commit.
Lightning Network Daemon
The Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) - is a complete implementation of a
Lightning Network node and currently deployed on
testnet3 - the Bitcoin Test Network. lnd has several pluggable back-end
chain services including btcd (a
full-node), bitcoind, and
neutrino (a new experimental light client). The project's codebase uses the
btcsuite set of Bitcoin libraries, and also
exports a large set of isolated re-usable Lightning Network related libraries
within it. 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.
- Updating advertised fee schedules.
- Automatic channel management (
autopilot).
Lightning Network Specification Compliance
lnd fully conforms to the Lightning Network specification
(BOLTs). 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, the current status of lnd's BOLT compliance is:
- BOLT 1: Base Protocol
- BOLT 2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
- BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
- 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
- BOLT 9: Assigned Feature Flags
- BOLT 10: DNS Bootstrap and Assisted Node Location
- BOLT 11: Invoice Protocol for Lightning Payments
Developer Resources
The daemon has been designed to be as developer friendly as possible in order
to facilitate application development on top of lnd. Two primary RPC
interfaces are exported: an HTTP REST API, and a gRPC
service. The exported API's are not yet stable, so be warned: they may change
drastically in the near future.
An automatically generated set of documentation for the RPC APIs can be found at api.lightning.community. A set of developer resources including talks, articles, and example applications can be found at: dev.lightning.community.
Finally, we also have an active
Slack
where protocol developers, application developers, testers and users gather to
discuss various aspects of lnd and also Lightning in general.
Installation
In order to build from source, please see the installation instructions.
IRC
- irc.freenode.net
- channel #lnd
- webchat