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Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
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Lightning scales and speeds up #bitcoin. We build lnd, taproot assets, lightning loop.⚡️ Support: @lightning_help
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lightning.engineering
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Feb 11
    AI agents can write code, send emails, and make phone calls. But they still can't transact. Today we're fixing that. Releasing a new set of tools that give agents native access to the Lightning Network: lnget for automatic L402 payments, MCP for node operations, remote signing
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    The Agents Are Here and They Want to Transact: Powering the AI Economy with Lightning
    For Agents 🤖 For Humans 👋 Today, we're open sourcing a new set of tools that give AI agents the skills to operate natively on the Lightning Network…
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Mar 15, 2018
    Big day for bitcoin, Lightning goes live on mainnet! ⚡  Announcing the first Lightning beta release for the live bitcoin network, lnd 0.4. Read about it here: blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2… 👩🏻‍🚀👨🏿‍🚀🚀
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Oct 18, 2023
    Announcing the first mainnet release of Taproot Assets 🥕, a protocol for assets on #bitcoin and Lightning. With this release, developers can issue financial assets on-chain in a scalable manner. 💱 Today marks a new era of multi-asset bitcoin. 🌅
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    Taproot Assets on Mainnet: A New Era for Bitcoin and Beyond 🌅
    Today we're excited to release the mainnet alpha of the Taproot Assets daemon, providing a feature-complete developer experience for issuing, managing
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Nov 16, 2017
    Today we're excited to announce the first ever Lightning cross-chain swap from Bitcoin to Litecoin!⚡️⛓️💱 Check out the code and demo here: blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2… youtube.com/watch?v=cBVcgz…
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Jan 30, 2025
    Today we're announcing that Tether is coming to bitcoin and Lightning! 💸⚡ With the security and decentralization of bitcoin and the speed and scalability of Lightning, USDT will bring hundreds of millions of users and trillions in volume. It all comes back to bitcoin.
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Sep 28, 2022
    Today we're excited to announce the initial code for Taro 🍠, a new protocol to issue and transfer assets on #bitcoin and Lightning 🔜. With this release, we're one step closer to bitcoinizing the dollar, and the global financial system! 🌍💱
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    Hello Taro: Building the (Tap)Root of the World's Financial Network with Bitcoin 👋🍠
    Today we're excited to announce the alpha release of the Taro daemon, enabling developers to mint, send, and receive assets on the bitcoin blockchain…
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Jul 23, 2024
    Announcing the first mainnet release of multi-asset Lightning. 💱⚡ With Taproot Assets, users can make instant, low fee asset transfers, bringing trillions of stablecoin volume to #bitcoin. Lightning is now the global, interoperable financial layer. 🌐
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    Taproot Assets on Lightning: The Global Financial Interoperability Layer ⚡💱
    Today we're excited to announce the release of Taproot Assets on Lightning, the first multi-asset Lightning protocol on mainnet. With this release…
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Feb 5, 2020
    Lightning Labs is scaling! Announcing our $10M Series A to fuel LN development, and the Lightning Loop beta release, a product making it easier send/receive #bitcoin instantly. With 4000 developers and 30+ startups, the next decade of Lightning is on 🔥
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    Entering the Decade of Lightning
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Jun 19, 2019
    We've released the mainnet alpha of our Lightning Mobile App for iOS & Android, the first on all major platforms! ⚡️📲 Send money instantly around the world. Control your own funds and data with Neutrino and Autopilot. Read more and try it out here: blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2…
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Dec 6, 2017
    Announcing the first-ever interoperable Lightning transactions using real bitcoin with @acinq_co @blockstream! We bought a Starblocks coffee ☕️ and a yalls.org article 📰. medium.com/@lightning_net… youtu.be/a73Gz3Tvx3k
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Nov 2, 2020
    Announcing Lightning Pool, a non-custodial marketplace to buy and sell #bitcoin liquidity on Lightning. With Pool, users can trade channels, making it easy to get access to liquidity or earn a bitcoin-native yield. 💱 Learn more and start trading today:
    lightning.engineering
    Lightning Pool Is Open for Business: Lease Liquidity, Earn Returns, Stack Sats
    Today we're announcing the release of Lightning Pool, a non-custodial, peer-to-peer marketplace for Lightning node operators to buy and sell channels…
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Jan 23, 2018
    Replying to @stripe
    👋 Stripe, We'd love to chat about integrating lightning support for bitcoin. It's fast, low fee, and lots of companies are already starting. ⚡️
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    Dec 21, 2017
    Don't like what that other network has been saying about bitcoin?🤔 Have no fear, we'll be on Bloomberg TV at 4:40pm ET today to talk about Lightning!⚡️
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    Joe Weisenthal
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    Dec 20, 2017
    Looking forward to having @starkness on #wdym this evening to talk about ⚡️
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    Lightning Labs⚡️🌐
    @lightning
    May 16, 2023
    Today we're excited to announce the newest version of Taproot Assets 🥕, a scalable protocol to issue assets on #bitcoin and Lightning. With this release, developers have the core set of features to bitcoinize the dollar in a chain-efficient manner! 💸⛓️
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    Mint the Future with Taproot Assets v0.2 🌿🔮
    Today we're excited to announce the latest release of the Taproot Assets Protocol daemon (formerly Taro). Taproot Assets v0.2 provides the core set of
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