araspitzu/lightningexchanges

Let's keep track of the exchanges that support Lightning Network

LightningExchanges

Let's keep track of the exchanges that support Lightning Network

Lightning Network (LNP) is a structure of payment channels open between private individuals and/or companies and represents the scaling solution for Bitcoin; that's why we often called it also the Bitcoin' Second Layer.

With Lightning we can potentially make hundreds of thousands if not million transactions per second and so reach any part of the World (almost) instantaneously.

Lightning therefore constitutes a true P2P network, in full compliance with the abstract of the Bitcoin whitepaper created by Satoshi Nakamoto, while the Base (Settlement) Layer, with its blockchain, is more similar to a broadcast system, since the transaction transcription and so their irreversibility depends on the miners.

We will see many exchanges in the near future that will implement Lightning: it's fast, reliable, and the capacity is increasing thanks to the Wumbo channels.

My proposal is to collect the exchanges that already implemented Lightning Network or plan to do it in a simple table and keep it update. So, let's do it!

Exchange	Lightning Support?	Activation	Status	Proof of Support	Top Cryptocurrency Spot Exchanges Position	Node URI
Binance	NO	n.d.	🔺	n.d	1	n.a.
Coinbase	NO	n.d.	🔺	n.d.	2	n.a.
Kraken	Declared	2021	🔁	blog	3	n.d.
Bitfinex	YES	September 2020	⚡	blog	4	Link bfx-lnd0, bfx-lnd1
Bithumb	NO	n.d.	🔺	n.d.	5	n.a.
------------	-------------	-------------	-------	-------------	-------------
Bitstamp	YES	July 2019	🟡	website	8	Link ln.bitstamp.net
OKEx	Declared	Q1 2021	🔁	blog	15
OKcoin	YES	March 2021	⚡	Twitter	32
NiceHash	YES	Q3 2020	⚡	website	116	Link ln.nicehash.com
Southxchange	YES	Q3 2018	⚡	Twitter	176
CoinCorner	YES	Q1 2021	⚡	Twitter	242
Buda	YES	Q3 2018	⚡	blog	248
Paxful	Declared	Q1 2021	🔁	article	n.d.
Bitaroo	YES	September 2019	⚡	Twitter	n.d.
River Financial	YES	October 2019	⚡	Twitter	n.d.	ln.river.com
VBTC Vietnam	YES	January 2021	⚡	Twitter	n.d.
FixedFloat	YES	February 2019	⚡	blog	n.d.	Link fixedfloat.com

I invite the representatives of the exchanges to signal their support to Lightning Network also in this repo.

Legend:

🔺 Non-active

🔁 In progress...

⚡ Feel the power of Lightning!

🟡 Signalling support (example: the exchange has LN nodes, will fully support LN but at the moment doesn't support deposits/withdrawals)

💩 Admittedly against Lightning activation