§ 04 · ABOUT

ln.fyi / OPEN LIGHTNING ATLAS

A real-time, editorial dashboard for the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Free, open, no accounts, no tracking.

VERSION 0.1
LICENSE · PUBLIC DOMAIN
B01WHAT THIS IS

ln.fyi is an open dashboard for the Bitcoin Lightning Network — a real-time control-room view of every public node, channel and satoshi flowing through the network's second layer.

The Lightning Network is a payment protocol built on top of Bitcoin that enables instant, near-zero-fee transactions by opening state channels between participating nodes. Thousands of nodes run it quietly around the world. Most of the data is public, but it is not especially legible.

This site aims to fix that. It reads public data from mempool.space's Lightning API and renders it as a single, data-dense dashboard you can use to understand the state and trajectory of the network without clicking through pages, or installing anything, or signing up for anything.

It is intentionally minimal: one screen, real numbers, no ads, no tracking, no upsell. Every chart and table here is rebuildable from the same public endpoints — the code is open.

B02AT A GLANCE
SOURCEmempool.emzy.de
SOFTWAREmempool.space
ENDPOINTSLightning REST v1
AUTHNone
REFRESH≈5 min (cached)
COSTFree · forever
TRACKINGNone
LICENSEPublic domain
B05SOURCE
OPEN SOURCE
VIEW, FORK OR AUDIT
github.com/fmiras/ln.fyi

The code behind this site is open and publicly readable. Every API call, every transformation, every chart is in the repository. You can fork it, audit it, self-host it, or open an issue. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind.

B06COLOPHON
TYPOGRAPHY
IBM Plex Sans · IBM Plex Sans Condensed · IBM Plex Mono
STACK
Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind
CHARTS
Hand-rolled SVG · no libraries
BUILT FOR
Anyone curious about the shape of Bitcoin’s second layer.