Lightning Network

The Real Cost of Ignoring Lightning: Why Top Exchanges Are Making the Shift

Forward-thinking product leaders and CFOs at crypto exchanges are turning to the Lightning Network to reduce fees, accelerate withdrawals, and unlock new revenue streams. As user expectations shift toward instant, low-cost payments, platforms that fail to integrate Lightning risk falling behind—while those that act now are gaining a powerful edge in speed, efficiency, and user experience.

Unbank Teams Up with Voltage to Bring Lightning-Fast Bitcoin Transactions to 40,000+ Locations, Including Walgreens and CVS

Unbank has partnered with Voltage to enable Lightning-powered Bitcoin transactions at over 40,000 locations, including Walgreens and CVS. This integration brings instant, low-cost Bitcoin payments to everyday users, making cryptocurrency more accessible and seamless.

The Next Frontier of Payments: How Stablecoins Create Hypergrowth of Revenue

Discover how stablecoins on the Lightning Network are transforming payments with lower fees, faster settlements, and global scalability. Learn how businesses can unlock hypergrowth by embracing this next-generation solution.

The Risks of Current Stablecoin Networks: Why Bitcoin and Lightning Offer a Safer Alternative

Examining the risks of Ethereum and Tron as stablecoin networks and why Bitcoin and the Lightning Network offer a safer and more efficient solution.

FOSS Friday - August 2, 2024

FOSS Friday is our bi-weekly innovation day at Voltage! On these days, our team dives into the exciting world of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). Why, you may ask? Well, Bitcoin and the Lightning network, the very core of our work, are open source technology. As a bitcoin infrastructure company, we don't just use open source; we actively contribute to it. This is a symbiotic relationship for us: by contributing to these projects, we can do our part to bolster the bitcoin ecosystem while also uncovering fresh, innovative ideas.

Picnic Group leverages Voltage lightning payments to create deeper community ties

What Crypto is associated to AI?

Understanding Hold Invoices on the Lightning Network

Understanding Trampoline Payments

Harnessing Lightning Network for AI Innovation – Pt 3

Harnessing Lightning Network for AI Innovation - Pt 2

Harnessing Lightning Network for AI Innovation - Pt 1

Taproot Assets: Issuing Assets on Bitcoin

How Lightning Channel Rebalances Work

Nostr’s Relationship with Bitcoin

Lightning Channel Coinjoins

Spending on Bitcoin has increased with use of Lightning Network

What Are TLS Certificates and Why are They Needed?

What are Macaroons, and How do They Work

What is Splicing and How Does it Work?

What’s the difference between a Bitcoin Node and a Lightning Node?

BOLT 12 - Natively Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience

BOLT 12 enhances the Lightning Network by enabling static QR codes for payments, overcoming BOLT 11 limitations. This simplifies transactions, improves user experience, and supports a broader range of use cases through native, secure communication between Lightning nodes.

Multipart Payments - AMP/MMP

Surge now available for Voltage users

LNURL - Enhancing Lightning's User Experience

Penalty Transactions on Lightning

Why You Should Run a Lightning Node

Point Time-Locked Contracts

Lightning Node Management - Handling High On-Chain Fees

How do Lightning Network Fees Work?

Submarine Swaps - How do they work and where they are used?

Exploring the Benefits of Lightning Network for Enterprises

Watchtowers on Lightning Network

Lightning Payments: Pre-Images & Hashes

What are the differences between “public” and “private” channels?

Blockware Solutions uses Voltage for Secondary ASIC Market

What is Onion Routing. How does it work?

The Ultimate Lightning Network Privacy Explainer

What are Blinded Paths and How do they Work?

What do Open-Channel Transactions Look Like On-Chain?

Introducing Flow 2.0: A New LSP Focused on Just-In-Time Liquidity

What are Negative Fees and how Does it Affect the Lightning Network?

Where Does the Yield Come From?

How does an HTLC work?

Lightning Privacy for Beginners

4 Real Use Cases for Lightning Network

Solving $1 trillion dollar unpaid invoice problem

Why do Lightning nodes need inbound and outbound liquidity?

What are the differences between LND and CLN?

Why Exchanges Need Bitcoin Lightning Network Deposits and Withdrawals

What is Lightning Network Capacity

How many transactions can the lightning network handle?

TRUBIT bringing Digital Loyalty Assets to Bitcoin

The Low Time Preference Low-Cost Routing Node Guide

Running Business on Bitcoin and Lightning

FOSS Friday #9 - Voltage update

Send and receive Bitcoin over the Lightning Network with NodeJS

Bitcoin and Lightning Network Impact on Music w/ Michael Rhee, Founder of Wavlake

Lightning Network and Nation-State Adoption with Samson Mow

Copywritten Music Will Love the Lightning Network

How the Lightning Network potentially solves fake reviews

Bitcoin Banking with Brianna and NOAH Team

Identity and Brand on the Lightning Network

Discussing Bitcoin and Lightning Network with Jeff Booth

Foss Friday #5 at Voltage

LNbits Now Available on Voltage

How to Sell Liquidity and Earn Sats with your Lightning Node

FOSS Friday #4 at Voltage

Lightning Node “Type” Series #1: The Consumer Node or How to Live on Lightning

Lightning Advancements with Lyle Pratt, Founder of VIDA

Announcing Surge and our Next Generation platform

LND Node Recovery Options and Planning

Nate's Top 5 Lightning Network Resources for Beginners

Visa, Mastercard raise fees, Lightning Network keeps fees low

Why Did My Lightning Network Payment Fail?

Demystifying Inbound Liquidity

Who Invented the Lightning Network?

Building a Lightning Network Node For Routing - Part 3

Voltage Announces $6 Million Seed Round led by Trammell Venture Partners, with Craft, GV, and Additional Investors

Lightning Node Observability w/ @BitcoinCoderBob

How Taproot Improves The Lightning Network

How many Lightning nodes are there?

Flow Dashboard Now Available

Bitwage x Voltage - First salary payments on Lightning

Lightning Infrastructure - API’s used to build Lightning Apps “LApps”

Amazon Customers Blocked from Using Visa. Hello Lightning!

LApps & Forecasting Advancements On Bitcoin & Lightning

Panels with Voltage @ TabConf 2021

What is the best Lighting Wallet for you?

Are Lightning Nodes Profitable?

Introducing Flow: Effortlessly Create Lightning Channels

What does it mean to run your own node?

Keysend Payments Explained - Voltage Technical Series

How to start using the Lightning Network

Building a Lightning Network Node For Routing - Part 2

Decentralize everything with Lightning Nodes

How to accept Bitcoin Payments on Shopify

$1 Lightning Nodes for Uptober

Building a Lightning Network Node for Routing - Part 1.1

What is the Lightning Network?

Voltage Provides Free Nodes at ShellHacks, Florida’s Largest Hackathon

Building a Lightning Network Node for Routing - Part 1

How the Lightning Network is Innovating Podcasting

Introducing the Voltage API

The Bitcoin Lightning Networks Impact on the Future of Payments

Announcing our Rebrand: Logo Redesign

How to run a Lightning Node on Voltage

Lightning Node Beginnings, Part 1

Announcing On-Demand Pricing for Bitcoin Lightning Nodes

We're Moving! Well, domains that is...

Podcasting 2.0 with Breez and Voltage

Powering Lightning: How THNDR Games uses Voltage

Life of Lightning: A brief timeline of the Lightning Network’s history

Voltage v0.2.3 and LND 0.12.0

ThunderHub Now Available

Introducing Lite Nodes

How Voltage Works

Voltage is Here

Announcing Voltage