SUMMARY.md

Table of contents

• Welcome to the Builder's Guide to the LND Galaxy!

The Lightning Network

• Overview
  • Network Topology
  • Components
  • Channel Lifecycle
  • Payment Lifecycle
  • Conclusion
• Payment Channels
• Multihop Payments
  • Multipath Payments (MPP)
• Liquidity
  • Understanding Liquidity
  • Managing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
  • How to get inbound capacity on the Lightning Network
• Routing
  • What Makes a Good Routing Node
  • Identifying Good Peers on the Lightning Network

Lightning Network Tools

• LND
  • Getting started with LND and the Lightning Network
  • Sending Payments
  • Receiving Payments
  • Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions
  • Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions
  • Macaroons
  • Configuring Watchtowers
  • Secure Your Lightning Network Node
  • Operational Safety
  • Optimal Configuration of a Routing Node
  • Configuring Tor
  • Debugging LND
  • Fuzzing LND
  • LND and etcd
  • NAT Traversal
  • Recovery: Planning for failure
  • Recovering Funds
  • Run LND
• Lightning Terminal
  • Get LiT
    • Linux - Integrated Mode
    • Linux - Remote Mode
    • MacOS - Integrated Mode
    • MacOS - Remote Mode
    • Windows - Integrated Mode
    • Windows - Remote Mode
  • Walkthrough
  • Next Steps
• Loop
  • Autoloop

LAPPs

• Guides
  • Use Polar to Build Your First LAPP
    • Setup: Local Cluster with Polar
    • Setup: Run the Completed App
    • Setup: Run the App Without LND
  • Add Features
    • Feature 1: Connect to LND
    • Feature 2: Display Node Alias and Balance
    • Feature 3: Sign and Verify Posts
    • Feature 4: Modify Upvote Action
• Next Steps

Community Resources

• Resource List
• Lightning Bulb 💡
• FAQ