We're Sunsetting Self-Serve at Voltage: Enterprise is Our Future
Voltage is deprecating its self-serve product to focus entirely on enterprise-grade Lightning infrastructure. Here is why we are making the call, what changes for existing self-serve customers, and the key dates to know.
Almost six years ago, Voltage started with one goal: make running a Lightning node easy. Our CEO/Founder Graham was a solo developer trying to build on Lightning, and he kept hitting the same wall everyone did. The infrastructure was hard, slow, and fragile. So he built the thing he wished existed and opened it up to every other builder facing that same wall. That was the whole idea: make Lightning accessible to anyone who wanted to build on it.
Since launching our self-serve offering, we've continually refined our platform based on how individuals and companies are adopting Lightning in the real world. To better serve that evolution, we've made the decision to deprecate Voltage's self-serve product and focus our efforts on delivering enterprise-grade Lightning infrastructure for organizations building at scale.
The enterprise bet worked
Over the last two years, we made a deliberate bet on enterprises: crypto exchanges, neobanks, fintech wallets, and gaming companies. It wasn't that we cared less about individuals. We found that enterprises were the fastest, widest way to actually reach them. When one exchange or wallet runs on Voltage, Lightning quietly reaches millions of people who will never spin up a node themselves and never need to. That is the leverage we were always looking for.
The bet worked. We grew ~1,000% over the last 18 months, and today Voltage helps facilitate a meaningful share of public Lightning transactions worldwide.
Why we're making a hard call
That success is exactly why we're deprecating our self-serve product.
We don't say that lightly. Self-serve was the foundation of this company. It is how thousands of builders met Voltage, how the brand was built, and how we learned what Lightning actually needs to work at scale. We're grateful to every developer who spun up a node, shipped something on it, and told us what was broken. You shaped what Voltage became.
But focus is a choice about what you say no to. We can keep our attention split across two very different products, or we can go all-in on the one that connects the most people to Lightning the fastest. We're choosing focus. We understand our mission more clearly than we ever have, and we're pointing the entire company at it: get enterprises and businesses running on the Lightning Network, so Bitcoin becomes money the world actually uses every day.
What this means for you
If you are currently on a Voltage Enterprise plan, you are not affected by this change.
If you're interested in continuing on Voltage's infrastructure and your organization has growing transaction volume or infrastructure needs, please complete this form to connect with our Sales team and discuss available options.
What to expect
On July 13, 2026 the ability to add any new infrastructure will be shut off. The services that are already enabled on your account will be the only thing available from your dashboard (i.e LND nodes, LNBits, BTCPay, etc.)
Self-serve infrastructure, as a whole, will be deprecated on August 31, 2026.
Existing self-serve customers should review their current setup and plan for shutdown before that date.
Resources
Questions or need assistance? Contact support@voltage.cloud
Lightning's next chapter
To the builders who started here with us: thank you. You proved Lightning was worth betting on. The mission you helped us start is the same one we're accelerating now, just aimed at the point where it moves the most for the most people.
Lightning's next chapter isn't about making one more node easy to launch. It's about connecting the whole world to Bitcoin payments. That's where we're going, and we're more confident in that direction more than ever.