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Voltage bills itself as, “Enterprise-grade infrastructure for the Lightning Network. Scalability should beryllium arsenic accelerated and arsenic casual arsenic Lightning itself.” The institution offers node hosting implicit clearnet to let businesses to onboard to the Lightning Network, unfastened outgo channels and adjacent tally a constituent of merchantability interface with BTCPay Server.
This writer has had the accidental to acceptable up a Voltage node and the full process took each of 5 minutes; the onboarding was simple, the interface was creaseless and the full process was casual capable that my grandma could bash it.
In summation to nodes, Voltage besides has a liquidity service, Flow, which allows customers to acquisition liquidity from different nodes connected the network, creating the quality for clients to nonstop and person payments implicit the Lightning Network.
The CEO of Voltage, Graham Krizek, made an announcement astatine the endeavor signifier detailing 2 caller products the institution is releasing. Surge and their next-generation level which comes with large improvements.
Surge allows users to show and observe their Lightning node. This merchandise gives radical who tally nodes the quality to find problems, summation reliability and optimize the mode their node operates. Surge gives Voltage customers marque caller insights into their nodes. This includes keeping node operators up-to-date with past of peers’ online activity, whether oregon not payments are capable to beryllium routed done the node, the authorities of hash time-lock contracts (HTLCs) and more.
Surge volition beryllium disposable this summer.
The adjacent portion of the announcement included the next iteration of the Voltage platform. The extremity of this caller and improved interface is to marque a much robust Lightning level available. There volition beryllium large updates and improvements that springiness clients the capableness to make 1 node oregon arsenic galore nodes arsenic they wish. The institution billed this arsenic “next procreation Lightning arsenic a Service.”
Voltage plans to marque it imaginable for customers to wage lone for what they use, portion besides giving implicit power to the user. The Voltage level allows a simplified, managed interface with robust APIs, precocious insights, node enactment and a batch more. The caller level besides has a absorption connected developers with elemental APIs, developer modules, logs and webhooks and load balances.
Krizek concluded, “This changes everything for the Lightning Network.”
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