Since it was just announced that the Lightning Network hit $1.17B in a month I did a deep dive and found some very promising news.

With some help from AI and data from the latest River finances, @bitcoinmoodapp found out that average transaction sizes nearly doubled to $223 in 2025 from $118 the previous year. And we're even seeing seven figure settlements between exchanges in under half a second.

This article broke down the full numbers on volume growth and institutional adoption.