{"id":3410,"date":"2023-10-12T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02cb9099b0002758"},"modified":"2023-10-12T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T08:15:00","slug":"blockstream-launches-non-custodial-lightning-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/blockstream-launches-non-custodial-lightning-solution","title":{"rendered":"Blockstream Launches Non-Custodial Lightning Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blockstream.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blockstream<\/a>, a global leader in Bitcoin infrastructure technology, has announced its new &#8220;Lightning-as-a-Service&#8221; solution called Greenlight, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. This offering aims to provide the integration of fast, cost-effective Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network for developers and enterprise clients worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The current landscape of Lightning payments presents users with a dilemma where they must choose between convenience and self-custody. Custodial solutions offer ease of use but sacrifice security and financial independence, while non-custodial solutions, although secure, demand substantial operational expertise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The challenge is to alleviate this burden without compromising on security or functionality,&#8221; said Blockstream&#8217;s Core Tech Engineer and Greenlight lead, Christian Decker. &#8220;It&#8217;s designed to let developers integrate Lightning in their apps seamlessly while granting users full exclusive control over their funds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greenlight employs an architecture that ensures private keys, granting exclusive control of funds, are stored by the user and never shared with Blockstream&#8217;s infrastructure. For app developers, this approach reduces the risk and liability associated with holding user funds while maintaining full control for users.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of Greenlight aims to simplify the challenges developers face in building and maintaining Lightning infrastructure. By outsourcing these complexities to Blockstream, companies can focus on creating innovative Lightning-based applications without compromising security or functionality, eliminating the need for costly solutions and freeing up precious time for innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Greenlight developer certificates, providing access to the service&#8217;s API, are available through the Greenlight developer console. To encourage the growth of applications that use self-custodial Lightning, Blockstream is offering a free tier, empowering developer experimentation with the capability to deploy up to 1,000 &#8220;on-demand&#8221; nodes. For enterprises with more extensive requirements, Blockstream offers paid plans that expand node limits and provide uptime and availability guarantees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This offering aims to provide the integration of fast, cost-effective Lightning payments for developers and enterprise clients worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2511,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[76,287,1238,130,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-3410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-blockstream","10":"tag-greenlight","11":"tag-lightning","12":"tag-news"},"author_data":{"id":2511,"name":"Nik","nicename":"nik","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NIK_.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20231010-greenlight-cover_1920x1080px.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}