Dear community,

We have started working on an open-source project to help bring lightning infrastructure as close as possible to developers and more technically oriented people who are not afraid to own their entire stack (or at least a bigger part of it). We think it's not that hard, it's been done and proven to be working, it's just a matter of learning some skills and putting it in a context where it starts making sense.

The goal is to have a minimal (yet solid) footprint for operating data and connections along side a website or application, and then keep integration as close as possible to a lightning network daemon like currently with lnd for actual interoperability with the network.

The starting point is the source code available here https://github.com/kangu/fulger. You can install and run it for yourself, it's not very much at this point, just a proof-of-concept donation/tipping system. The plan is to implement on a vision for handling micro-transactions on content websites where content creations get to monetization on their own terms and have full control of their data and connected peers, then afterwards the standard orders/products management system in the backend for a more "traditional" store.

Comments and thoughts are welcomed.

Radu at Kangu Studio