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.

Resources

​c-lightning GitHub​

Key People

• ​Rusty Russell​

• ​Christian Decker​

See also

​c-lightning Plugin Collection​

References

[1] Blockstream​

[2] c-lightning​