c-lightning

Overview
c-lightning is a a BOLT-compliant Lightning implementation by Blockstream [2] written in C. Version 1 of c-lightning was released on August 8th, 2015, and has since been under active beta development. c-lightning runs on Linux.
Details
Plugin Support Architecture
On top of complying with all BOLT standards, c-lightning is developing an architecture for plugins. Plugins can be built to extend the c-lightning command line API.
Developer Tools
There are a number of developer tools, libraries and plugins that exist for the c-lightning implementation.
ElementsProject/lightning-charge
A simple drop-in solution for accepting lightning payments - ElementsProject/lightning-charge
github.com
ElementsProject/paypercall
Charge for HTTP APIs on a pay-per-call basis with Bitcoin and Lightning :zap: - ElementsProject/paypercall
github.com
ElementsProject/lightning-charge-client-php
PHP client for lightning-charge. Contribute to ElementsProject/lightning-charge-client-php development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
ElementsProject/lightning-charge-client-js
JavaScript client for lightning-charge. Contribute to ElementsProject/lightning-charge-client-js development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Resources
​c-lightning GitHub​
Key People
​Rusty Russell​
​Christian Decker​
See also
​c-lightning Plugin Collection​
References
[1] Blockstream​
[2] c-lightning​
LND
Eclair
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