Chaincode Lightning Residency
October 2018

About

Chaincode Labs hosted a residency program focused on Lightning application development in October 2018 in New York City.

14 application developers spent a week learning about building production Bitcoin applications using the Lightning Network and built their own Lightning applications throughout the course of the week.

Videos

Introduction

Introduction to the Chaincode Labs Lightning Residency
John Newbery

Lightning Network Fundamentals

History of the lightning network (slides)
Christian Decker

Bootstrapping and Maintaining a Lightning Node (slides)
Elaine Ou

Lightning ≈ Bitcoin (slides)
Christian Decker

Basic Lightning Applications

Lightning Protocol From An Application Design Perspective (slides)
Alex Bosworth

Building Applications on LND (slides)
Alex Bosworth

Building satoshis.place 1 (slides)
lightningk0ala

Building with Eclair, websockets and lapps (slides)
Chris Stewart

Lightning applications on light clients (slides)
Elaine Ou

c-lightning API (slides)
Christian Decker

Building Lightning into Bitrefill (1) (slides)
Justin Camarena

Effective Node Management (slides)
Alex Bosworth

Building Zap - A look under the hood (slides)
Jack Mallers

Building satoshis.place 2 (slides)
lightningk0ala

Lightning Application UX

Lightning UX - Building Lightning into Bitrefill (slides)
Justin Camarena

Lightning Network powered games (slides)
lightningk0ala

Building Zap - UX, design and product approach (slides)
Jack Mallers

Resident Demos

Videos of our residents presenting their Lightning Network applications are available on our Youtube playlist.

Residency speakers

Alex Bosworth

Alex is the Lightning Infrastructure Lead at Lightning Labs. He is the creator of submarine swaps, Y'alls and htlc.me.

Chris Stewart

Chris is the founder of SuredBits, a real-time micropayment-powered data service, built on top of the Lightning network. He is also the maintainer of bitcoin-s and a former Chaincode resident.

Christian Decker

Christian is an engineer at Blockstream and is a maintainer of the c-lightning Lightning implementation. He is also co-author of the 2015 Duplex Micropayment Channels paper and the 2018 eltoo paper.

Elaine Ou

Elaine is an engineer at Global Financial Access. She has implemented the LightningBuddy and Jellybean applications on top of Lightning.

Jack Mallers

Jack is the lead developer of zap, a desktop and iOS wallet for Lightning payments.

Justin Camarena

Justin is an engineer at bitrefill, the first payment processor to accept mainnet Lightning payments. He was the lead engineer for integrating Lightning into bitrefill’s payment system.

lightningk0ala

lightningk0ala is the creator of the wildly popular satoshis.place Lightning app. He’s an expert on Lightning-powered games.