development company has released a new version of its () software, c-lightning, a post on the company’s blog on March 1.
C-lightning is an implementation of the off-chain scalability solution, the Lightning Network (), that is written in the C programming language. Per the announcement, this latest version, c-lightning 0.7, is the first major release in 8 months and brings performance enhancements, bug fixes, augmented privacy and new features, as well as .
The main new feature is plugin supports, which allow developers to extend the capabilities of the software with plugins written in any programming language. The developers hope that this will contribute to the flexibility, extensibility and customizability of this LN implementation.
Last week, Blockstream co-founder and CEO in the LN-based Lightning Torch relay. He then passed the Torch on to former COO and early Blockstream supporter, Reid Hoffman.
As Cointelegraph in January, technology firm Group has released a series of new tools for merchants and developers in a bid to drive wider of the LN.
Data provided by a statistics website that the capacity of the Lightning Network has surpassed $2 million in December of last year.
Also in December, an R&D lab at crypto startup TenX the use of its cross- interoperability protocol to exchange ’s () ERC20 protocol for using the Lightning Network.
Published at Sat, 02 Mar 2019 11:46:19 +0000