Lightning Network – Milestones
Key milestones and important events in Lightning Network's history.
Showing 6 milestones for Lightning Network
Wavelength launches on mainnet
Lightning Labs opened Wavelength, an app-integration toolkit for Bitcoin payments using an Ark-like settlement layer, on mainnet.
lightning.engineering/posts/2026-10-23-wavelength-mainnet-launch/LND v0.21-beta adds production-ready simple Taproot channels
LND v0.21-beta made simple Taproot channels production-ready and added basic onion-message forwarding.
lightning.engineering/posts/2026-06-11-lnd-0.21-launch/Core Lightning v26.04 enables splicing by default
Core Lightning’s v26.04 release enabled splicing by default, allowing channel funds to be added or removed without a conventional close and reopen.
github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/v26.04/CHANGELOG.mdTaproot Assets v0.7 announced
Introduced reusable asset addresses, verifiable supply commitments, and Multi-RFQ sending.
lightning.engineering/posts/2025-12-16-tapd-0.7-launch/Taproot Assets v0.6 released
Added grouped-asset payment flows and multi-path receiving for Taproot Assets on Lightning.
lightning.engineering/posts/2025-6-24-tapd-v0.6-launch/Tether announces USDT integration with Bitcoin and Lightning
Tether and Lightning Labs announced a Taproot Assets-based USDT integration for Bitcoin and Lightning.
lightning.engineering/posts/2025-01-30-Tether-on-Lightning/