Crate lightning

Rust-Lightning, not Rusty’s Lightning!

A full-featured but also flexible lightning implementation, in library form. This allows the user (you) to decide how they wish to use it instead of being a fully self-contained daemon. This means there is no built-in threading/execution environment and it’s up to the user to figure out how best to make networking happen/timers fire/things get written to disk/keys get generated/etc. This makes it a good candidate for tight integration into an existing wallet instead of having a rather-separate lightning appendage to a wallet.

default features are:

• std - enables functionalities which require std, including std::io trait implementations and things which utilize time
• grind_signatures - enables generation of low-r bitcoin signatures, which saves 1 byte per signature in 50% of the cases (see bitcoin PR #13666)

Available features are:

• std
• grind_signatures
• no-std - exposes write trait implementations from the core2 crate (at least one of no-std or std are required)
• Skip logging of messages at levels below the given log level:
  • max_level_off
  • max_level_error
  • max_level_warn
  • max_level_info
  • max_level_debug
  • max_level_trace

Modules

chain

Structs and traits which allow other parts of rust-lightning to interact with the blockchain.

iostd

Re-export of either core2::io or std::io, depending on the std feature flag. Traits, helpers, and type definitions for core I/O functionality.

ln

High level lightning structs and impls live here.

onion_message

Onion Messages: sending, receiving, forwarding, and ancillary utilities live here

routing

Structs and impls for receiving messages about the network and storing the topology live here.

util

Some utility modules live here. See individual sub-modules for more info.

Macros

log_bytes

Logs a byte slice in hex format.

log_debug

Log at the DEBUG level.

log_error

Log at the ERROR level.

log_gossip

Log at the GOSSIP level.

log_info

Log at the INFO level.

log_trace

Log at the TRACE level.

log_warn

Log at the WARN level.