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In this commit, we correct our size estimates for to-local scripts, which are used on the commitment transaction and the htlc success/timeout transactions. There have been observed cases of transactions getting stuck because our estimates were too low, and cause the transactions to not be relayed. Our previous estimate for the commitment to-local script was derived from an older version of the script. Though the estimate is greater than the actual size, this has been updated with the current estimate of 79 bytes. This estimates makes the assumption that CSV delays will be at most 4 bytes when serialized. Since this value is expressed in relative block heights, this should be more than sufficient for our needs, even though the maximum possible size for the little-endian int64 is 9 bytes (plus an OP_DATA). The other correction is to use the ToLocalScriptSize as our estimate for htlc timeout/success scripts, as they are the same script. Previously, our estimate was derived from the proper script, though we were 6 bytes shy of the new to-local estimate, since we counted the csv_delay as 1 byte, and missed some other OP_DATAs. All derived estimates have been updating depending on the new and improved ToLocalScriptSize estimate, and fix some estimates that did not include the witness length in the estimate. Finally, we correct some weight miscalculations in: - AcceptedHtlcTimeoutWitnessSize: missing data push lengths - OfferedHtlcSuccessWitnessSize: extra 73 byte sig, missing data push lengths - OfferedHtlcPenaltyWitnessSize: missing 33 byte pubkey
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.
Docker
To run lnd from Docker, please see the main Docker instructions
IRC
- irc.freenode.net
- channel #lnd
- webchat