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Lightning Dev Kit

The Lightning Dev Kit project is building tools and libraries that make it easy to integrate Lightning features in Bitcoin wallets

Hey there 👋

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Lightning Development Kit (LDK) is a complete Lightning implementation packaged as an SDK

LDK is based on Rust-Lightning, a full-featured but also incredibly flexible lightning implementation, allowing you to decide how to use it.

Learn how to start adding Lightning to your apps at lightningdevkit.org

🔨 Contributing to the ecosystem

Our team maintains Rust-Lightning, which we rely on to build and run LDK, while also maintaining a number of other open source projects like:

😃 Join our community

Open source is fundamental to this project and we would love to connect with you.

Check out the LDK roadmap here

Most of our communication is happening in the LDK Discord server, come say hi!

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  1. rust-lightning rust-lightning Public

    A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!

    Rust 1.3k 418

  2. ldk-sample ldk-sample Public

    Sample node implementation using LDK

    Rust 182 99

  3. ldk-garbagecollected ldk-garbagecollected Public

    LDK Bindings for Garbage-Collected Languages

    TypeScript 56 26

  4. ldk-c-bindings ldk-c-bindings Public

    Main LDK C Bindings on which other bindings are built

    Rust 14 13

  5. ldk-swift ldk-swift Public

    Swift 49 11

  6. lightningdevkit.org lightningdevkit.org Public

    Lightning Development Kit Documentation

    60 44

Repositories

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  • rust-lightning Public

    A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!

    lightningdevkit/rust-lightning’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,288 418 331 (20 issues need help) 72 Updated Aug 13, 2025
  • ldk-node Public

    A ready-to-go node implementation built using LDK.

    lightningdevkit/ldk-node’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 184 114 79 (1 issue needs help) 14 Updated Aug 13, 2025
  • ldk-server Public

    LDK Server is a fully-functional Lightning node in daemon form.

    lightningdevkit/ldk-server’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 22 17 10 1 Updated Jul 28, 2025
  • ldk-garbagecollected Public

    LDK Bindings for Garbage-Collected Languages

    lightningdevkit/ldk-garbagecollected’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 56 26 18 0 Updated Jul 26, 2025
  • ldk-c-bindings Public

    Main LDK C Bindings on which other bindings are built

    lightningdevkit/ldk-c-bindings’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 14 13 8 1 Updated Jul 25, 2025
  • ldk-review-club Public

    LDK Review Club Website

    lightningdevkit/ldk-review-club’s past year of commit activity
    SCSS 7 6 0 0 Updated Jul 18, 2025
  • vss-server Public

    Versioned Storage Service

    lightningdevkit/vss-server’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 34 MIT 17 6 1 Updated Jul 18, 2025
  • ldk-sample Public

    Sample node implementation using LDK

    lightningdevkit/ldk-sample’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 182 Apache-2.0 99 3 1 Updated Jul 18, 2025
  • lightningdevkit/rapid-gossip-sync-server’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 26 26 2 (1 issue needs help) 4 Updated Jul 12, 2025
  • ldk-bot Public

    LDK Github bot for PR tracking

    lightningdevkit/ldk-bot’s past year of commit activity
    Python 2 2 0 0 Updated Jul 11, 2025