Upgrades

The future of Lightning: upcoming features and protocol improvements.

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Taproot Channels

By utilizing Schnorr signatures and Taproot, Lightning channels can look like regular single-key spends on-chain and support more complex scripts.

Point Time-Locked Contracts (PTLCs) use adapter signatures to replace HTLCs, improving privacy and enabling payment decorrelation.

Async payments allow mobile wallets to receive funds even when they are temporarily offline, using specialized node configurations.