About Lightning Labs

Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure.

What Lightning Labs is building

developing Lightning: an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchains and smart contracts

Technologies used at Lightning Labs

Front-end (1)

Back-end (4)

Java

Funding rounds

Total Funding

$82.5M

Last funding round type

Series B

Company type

For Profit

Lightning Labs news and updates

Lightning launches Taro protocol

Lightning Labs lead by Elizabeth Stark has announced a first test release of the new Taro protocol.

Oct 26, 2022 | bitcoinnews.com

Lightning launched version of the Taro open-souce software on Sep 28th 22'.

Lightning Labs on Wednesday released the first version of the Taro open-souce software to enable minting, sending and receiving assets on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Sep 28, 2022 | bitcoinmagazine.com

Lightning launched alpha release of the Taro daemon on Sep 28th 22'.

Today Lightning is excited to announce the alpha release of the Taro daemon, enabling developers to mint, send, and receive assets on the bitcoin blockchain.

Sep 27, 2022 | lightning.engineering

Lightning received financing of $70M in Series B funding round on Apr 4th 17'.

In addition to Taro, Lightning Labs also announced that it raised $70 million in Series B funding, led by Valor Equity Partners and joined by global asset manager Baillie Gifford.

Jan 1, 2022 | coindesk.com

Lightning launches beta version of the LND client for the Lightning Network

Lightning Labs developers have released a beta version of the LND client for the Lightning Network with support for some of the latest Bitcoin protocol enhancements, including Taproot.

Jan 1, 2022 | cryptocurrenciesnewz.com