Exciting news from ACINQ team just dropped on bird site, see below:

All the goodness of @PhoenixWallet, available to developers!

- self-custodial, no signup

- lightweight, native binaries

- NO configuration

- fully automated liquidity

- easy http api

https://phoenix.acinq.co/server

#Bitcoin #LightningNetwork

FULLY automated liquidity

Get "infinite inbound" from the largest and most liquid node in the network. No headaches for merchants or other receive-heavy use cases.

Effective receive fee is as low as ~1%

➡️ All details here: https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/auto-liquidity

Absolutely NO configuration

no channel management

no peer management

no liquidity management

no firewall configuration

➡️ Get started in seconds: https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/get-started

Lightweight & native

phoenixd is compiled to native binaries for linux, mac (x86 & arm) and windows (wsl).

Phoenix was already fast on mobile, but on server it flies!

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Discussion

I just searched the App Store hoping to see it. 🙏🏼

Am I understanding this could be a lnd/cln node alternative?

Eclair is the direct alternative by Acinq. Phoenixd is based on eclair but abstracts all the complexity away so the user doesn't have to think about channels, liquidity etc...

I didn't know there were people (outside Acinq) who run eclair

This is the model i think it makes sense. Node in the phone is not good. Node in the server and a thin client on the phone through API.

This sounds epic. Mind blowingly epic. Im thinking this needs to be a 1 click setup on voltage and Lightning is ready for a 50x merchant adoption.

MASSIVE

Can this be used as a funding source for LNbits?

This has interesting trade offs. If ACINQ added an optional way to get an LNAdress from them without having to run your own web server it could be very helpful. Then someone like Umbrel could do a one click install to give folks a way to self host and self custody an always on LN node without channel management.

They are implement bolt12, right?

I would love that. Didn’t see it on the API.

Yes bolt-12 is under very active development and they have been active in spec development.

Blnded paths will also be a big win for privacy when using an LSP like ACINQ.

Any chance the Phoenix server is coming to start9 and or Umbrel?