Give Me LIGHTNING

This week in Lightning:

- @lnbits told operators to shut down servers after a wave of attacks. Patches coming. Run LNbits? Stay offline until then.

- @Core_LN v26.06.10 is out, a security release. Upgrade.

- @ambosstech: 6,892 channels opened in October, avg 0.45 BTC, the highest of 2026.

- @Breez_Tech SDK can now pay Lightning or Spark addresses from other chains.

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Lightning catch-up since our last post:

1. Japan Bitcoin Industry raised ¥800M, paid entirely in bitcoin, from @FulgurVentures' Japan entity and ANAP Lightning Capital. ANAP's BTC goes to work as liquidity for Japanese Lightning routing.

2. Security: @BtcpayServer says attackers swept hot wallets on instances running 2.4.1 or older, so update to 2.4.7. @lightning shipped lnd v0.21.6 and v0.20.7 to block a Linux kernel exploit path.

3. Agent payments: @secondhq released barkget, curl for L402 APIs. Pay in sats from a self-custodial Bark wallet while Bark handles the Lightning side.

4. @walletofsatoshi awarded @Niftski 2,000,000 sats for a new Super Mario Bros world record (4:54.299). 21M sats still wait on a perfect run.

New on Give Me Lightning: @clamstech, Bitcoin and Lightning accounting for LND, Core Lightning and Phoenix nodes.

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Lightning catch-up (biggest first):

1. @lightning Wavelength is live on Bitcoin mainnet. Apps and AI agents send and receive over Lightning with a few API calls. Self-custodial, no node, no channels, no liquidity to manage.

2. @lightning also floated LayerTree: a non-custodial Bitcoin scaling design that plugs into Lightning, shares one UTXO across up to a million users, and lets anyone exit in a single tx.

3. Security week for node runners. @acinq_co shipped Eclair v0.14.5 (second security release in five days). @lightning rebuilt lnd, tapd, btcd, and litd after the eMudhra CA compromise. Updating Go alone does not patch installed binaries. Core Lightning also pushed a funds-at-risk fix in v26.06.9.

4. Real payments. @paywithsoap and @HiglobeOfficial added Lightning via @voltage_cloud. Eligible Cash App users can pay Soap merchants from USD. @WhiteBit added Lightning deposits and withdrawals.

5. Agent economy. @voltage_cloud shipped Agent Pack for coding agents. @TunnelSats sells WireGuard tunnels over HTTP 402. @gpvansat's Sats for Bots and Amazap keep cataloging paid Lightning APIs.

Worth a look: post-quantum Lightning research in Rust-Lightning, @ambosstech stablecoin-to-Bitcoin over Lightning, @BULLBITCOIN_ Lightning restored, @satora_io on-chain/Lightning swaps.

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Welcome to the scoreboard ⚡ A fresh batch of companies just joined Give Me Lightning, all live on the Lightning Network. Here's who they are 🧵

Happy Friday.. feels like a great day for another company to GIVE US LIGHTNING.

Who's it gonna it be? ⚡️👀