Lightning

Lightning for Builders

All 17 chapters of Mastering the Lightning Network, simplified, with a live lab on your laptop.

Run real Lightning nodes on regtest: create invoices, open channels, route payments, and dig into HTLCs, onions and the network graph, with the book's commands and Python. Needs a laptop with Docker.

17 lessons, 600 min

Start

Foundations

Nodes

Inside Lightning

The network

Protocol

Security and next steps