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Tether Invests $8 Million in Speed to Advance Lightning Network Payments
17.12.2025
Tether leads strategic funding round for Speed, supporting Lightning Network and stablecoin-powered global payment infrastructure. Tether announced on December 16, 2025, a strategic $8 million investment in Speed1, Inc., a payments infrastructure company leveraging the Lightning Network...
Lightspark Presents Solution Linking Lightning Network Payments to Bank Accounts in the U.S.
31.8.2024
Lightspark, a Bitcoin Lightning Network financial services company, has announced the release of its UMA Extend feature, which focuses on increasing the interaction between crypto and legacy rails in the U.S. With UMA Extend, businesses can opt in for a direction that can be linked to an account...
Breez Wallet Shows Offline Lightning Network Payments Solution
30.1.2024
Breez Wallet, a Lightning Network (LN) focused wallet, has shown an implementation that allows users to receive LN payments without being online. The service, which will be included in an upcoming non-custodial wallet app, leverages the wallets’ own SDK using mobile notifications to receive...
How to send and receive payments on the Lightning Network
9.5.2023
Learn to use Lightning Network by setting up a wallet, funding it, and using it to make and receive payments
Xapo Bank becomes first bank to support Lightning Network Payments
3.3.2023
Xapo Bank, a leading international private bank, has integrated with the Bitcoin-based Lightning Network by partnering with Lightspark, to allow lightning-fast Bitcoin transaction payments for its members. Xapo Bank is an international licensed private bank and Bitcoin custodian that has been...
Xapo Bank Integrates Lightning Network Payments Through Lightspark Partnership
2.3.2023
On March 2, Xapo Bank announced its partnership with Lightspark, a company led by David Marcus, former crypto boss at Facebook. The partnership aims to extend the utility of bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Xapo revealed on Thursday that it is the first fully licensed private bank to offer...
Crypto Biz: Is Zuckerberg’s $100B metaverse experiment doomed to fail?
28.10.2022
Meta's Reality Labs division lost $3.672 billion in the third quarter. Some shareholders aren't happy with the company's oversized investment in metaverse technology
Robinhood Opens Crypto Wallets to 2M Clients, Bets on Global Bitcoin Remittances
29.4.2022
Earlier this month, the US online trading platform Robinhood provided about 2m customers from its waitlist with crypto wallets, and this week completed the full roll-out of this functionality to all clients, the company said on the occasion of the release of its results for the first quarter...
Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments Jump Over 400%, 80M Users Have Access to Lightning
18.4.2022
As the usage of the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network is growing rapidly, now more than 80m users are estimated to have access to this network, compared with 100,000 users last summer, a new report from Arcane Research has found.
The main driver of growth for the Lightning Network this year...
Bitpay Adds Lightning Network, Youth Fashion Brand Pacsun to Accept Payments via Lightning
7.4.2022
On April 6, one of the largest cryptocurrency payment platforms in the world, Bitpay, announced the Atlanta-based company has integrated bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network. According to the announcement on Wednesday, the youth-focused American retail clothing brand Pacific Sunwear (Pacsun)...
Bitcoin Lightning Network goes live on Cash App
8.2.2022
Cash App mentions that the Lightning Network feature is not available to users located in New York
Bitcoin Suisse to enable Lightning Network payments
10.11.2021
Bitcoin Suisse, Switzerland’s biggest BTC broker, has now made Lightning Network technology available for its crypto payment system
Elektra Group President Ricardo Salinas Hints at Inclusion of Lightning Network Payments in Mexico
8.9.2021
Ricardo Salinas, president of Elektra Group, one of the biggest retail franchises in Mexico, hinted at the possibility of integrating payments using Bitcoin’s second layer solution, the Lightning Network. Salinas made the announcement yesterday via Twitter. This would allow residents of...
Researchers Surface Privacy Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments
21.4.2020
Privacy holes in the Lightning Network, a bitcoin transaction settlement layer, are leaking payment information
Major Asian Ticketing Agency Accepts Bitcoin on Lightning Network
20.4.2020
Vietnamese ticketing agency Future.Travel has begun processing Bitcoin via the Lightning Network to streamline transactions and eliminate fraud
Jack Dorsey’s Square Awarded Patent for Real-Time Crypto-to-Fiat Swaps
22.1.2020
Jack Dorsey’s Square gets patent for fiat-to-crypto exchanges in real-time transactions
Bitfinex Allows Lightning Network Shopping on Bitrefill with Bitcoin
4.12.2019
Users of crypto exchange Bitfinex now can shop with Bitcoin held on the trading platform over Lightning Network
Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments Hit Bitfinex in Industry First
3.12.2019
Bitfinex: Lightning Network forms first of two major upgrades
Bitcoin Startup Brings Lightning Network Payments to Amazon, Whole Foods
11.7.2019
U.S.-based payments startup Fold has made Lightning Network payments possible at Amazon, Starbucks, Uber and other big name retailers
The Implications of Fusing 5G and Blockchain
31.3.2019
The debut of 5G networks will be a boost for blockchain and IoT