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LNP/BP Association

Non-profit supervising development of layers on top of Bitcoin and Lightning Network

Mission

Standardize

Create and maintain standards & public registries
See the current list of standards and registries

Implement

Sponsor opensource reference implementations of libraries, nodes & tools
See the list of our libraries, nodes and tools

Educate

Educate community and ensure alignment with cypherpunk values
See our values and community standards

Values

Censorship-resistance

Ability to transact is a form of free speech. All operations with LNP/BP must be censorship-resistant, leveraging bitcoin PoW qualities and decentralized networks as much as possible.

Privacy

Bitcoin and blockchains lacks privacy by showing transaction graphs and allowing chainanalysis. The new tech must be based on zk-proofs and client-side-validation to give the control over privacy back to the user.

Layerization

Separation of concerns & abstraction are cornerstones in developing and maintaining secure, extensible protocols and software

Activities

The Association fulfills its mission through creating and managing products, which include standards, registries, libraries, nodes, command-line tools and documentation.
The association products cover three main verticals:

Bitcoin protocol (BP)

Client-side-validation enhancements of bitcoin components

Lightning network protocol (LNP)

Generalization of lightning network supporting advanced functionality

Smart contracts (RGB etc)

Technologies enabling higher programmability with client-side-validation

Maintained protocols

RGB

Scalable & confidential smart contracts with client-side-validation

Bifrost

Lightning protocol extensions enabling Taproot, multi-peer channels, channel composability and RGB

Storm

Decentralized data network, providing data propagation, storage & queries on top of Lightning/Bifrost

Kaleidoscope

Decentralized exchange protocols (DEX) for Lightning with RGB and other forms of assets

Prometheus

Trust-minimized distributed computing with Lightning network

Sponsors & contributors

Association is a non-profit running on funds of our donors. We would like to thank all who made possible for us to continue operations through all past years.

Fulgur Ventures

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Bitfinex & Tether

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Pandora Prime

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Hojo Foundation

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Private donors

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Not all donors can be named, many of them are anonymous or would like to respect their privacy.

Donations

We are accepting donations for the 2023 year via our BTCPayServer page.

Community

You can follow our activities & join the community through the following channels:

​GitHub​

​YouTube​

​Telegram​

​Twitter​

​LinkedIn​

IRC: #lnp-bp on Libera

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