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Lightning Network Liquidity Management: The Work Behind One Simple Payments API
Depth and automated rebalancing are the hardest parts of running Lightning. Here is what that work involves, and why Amboss Payments hides all of it behind a single API.
Anthony Potdevin
July 7, 2026
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Research
MP-Flow: A Deep Graph Reinforcement Learning Agent for Maximizing Throughput in the Lightning Network
We address the challenge of reliable payment routing in the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN), an emerging technology designed to scale Bitcoin transactions through off-chain channels.
Amboss Research
October 19, 2025
Bayesian Binary Search
We present Bayesian Binary Search (BBS), a novel framework that bridges statistical learning theory/probabilistic machine learning and binary search.
Amboss Research
July 22, 2024
Channel Balance Interpolation in the Lightning Network via Machine Learning
This research explores the feasibility of using machine learning models to interpolate channel balances within the network, which can be used for optimizing the network's pathfinding algorithms.
Amboss Research
May 20, 2024
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Lightning Network Liquidity Management: The Work Behind One Simple Payments API
Depth and automated rebalancing are the hardest parts of running Lightning. Here is what that work involves, and why Amboss Payments hides all of it behind a single API.
Anthony Potdevin
July 7, 2026
The Fastest Payment Rails Are Not the Ones With the Lowest Block Time
Block time measures how fast a validator set agrees, not how fast your money is final. Here is how the fastest payment rails actually compare on settlement speed, finality, and who can reverse a transaction.
Anthony Potdevin
July 3, 2026
How to Get Paid Faster When Cash Flow Is Critical
Why card and bank payments take days to land, which rails settle in seconds, and how to shorten the gap between a sale and usable cash.
Jesse Shrader
July 1, 2026
How Lightning Handles Multiple Currencies for Your Business
On Lightning, a customer can pay in one currency while you settle in another, so you accept bitcoin and stablecoins on one integration. Here is what that means for your business, and a light look at how it works.
Bufo
July 1, 2026
Lightning Network Payouts for iGaming: The 2026 Operator Playbook
Instant payouts keep players. Lightning delivers them with no chargebacks, but running the rail yourself means managing liquidity, reliability, and compliance. Here is how iGaming operators get instant payouts without building any of that.
Mario Pazos
July 1, 2026
How to Accept Cash App Payments in an Afternoon
Cash App users can pay any Lightning invoice. Accept Lightning once and you can take payments from tens of millions of Cash App customers, with no Cash App partnership and no per-platform integration.
Anthony Potdevin
June 30, 2026
What Is Open USD? The Stablecoin 140 Companies Backed, and the Part It Leaves Open
Open USD standardizes how a dollar stablecoin is issued, governed, and shared. It says nothing about how the dollar moves, and that settlement layer is where most of the cost and speed live.
Amboss Team
June 30, 2026
Bitcoin Treasury Yield: How to Earn on BTC Without Selling It
Why a static Bitcoin treasury forces a sale to cover costs, and how earning yield on BTC through Lightning payment routing offers a different path that keeps custody and exposure.
Anthony Potdevin
June 29, 2026
Lightning Payments vs Cash Payments: Which Is More Private?
A clear comparison of the privacy you get from physical cash versus Lightning payments: what each one hides, what each one leaks, and which to use when privacy matters.
Amboss Team
June 29, 2026
Stablecoin Rails vs Lightning: A Cost, Speed, and Custody Comparison
How traditional multi-chain stablecoin rails compare to stablecoins settled on Lightning, on cost, settlement speed, custody, and operational overhead, and where the Amboss Payments API fits.
Amboss Team
June 26, 2026
Crypto Payments for iGaming: The 2026 Cost and Compliance Comparison
Why card processors charge iGaming operators a high-risk premium on top of standard fees, how crypto and Lightning rails change the cost structure, and what operationally shifts when you switch.
Amboss Team
June 24, 2026
How to Reduce Your Payment Processing Fees in 2026
Seven strategies to lower your payment processing fees, including one structural option that can reduce the effective cost further than any conventional approach.
Anthony Potdevin
June 23, 2026
Lightning Payments API: A Developer Integration Guide
How a Lightning Network payment API works end to end, with the invoice and settlement flow, code examples, and the cost comparison to card APIs.
Amboss Team
June 23, 2026
The Supply Has Arrived: BitGo Lightning Earn and the Business Case for Lightning Payments
BitGo Lightning Earn, built on Amboss Rails, gives institutional bitcoin treasuries a regulated on-ramp to deploy capital as Lightning Network liquidity — arriving just as billions of users and millions of merchants activate Lightning payments.
Jesse Shrader
June 13, 2026
24/7 Payment Settlement: How to Run a Weekend-Open Payments Business
Banking rails sleep weekends and holidays. For iGaming, marketplaces, and global payouts businesses, that closes hours when the business is busiest.
Anthony Potdevin
June 12, 2026
Crypto Payment Gateway Fees: Why 1-3% Is the Floor (and What Is Below)
A breakdown of what major crypto payment gateways actually charge, why most cluster between 1 and 3 percent, and the structural reasons some land at 0.5%.
Anthony Potdevin
June 5, 2026
Instant Payment Settlement vs T+1: The Real Cost of Delay
Card settlement takes 1-3 days. ACH takes up to 3. SWIFT takes up to 5. Here is the working capital math, and the rails that settle in seconds.
Anthony Potdevin
May 28, 2026
How to Accept Stablecoin Payments Without Multi-Chain Overhead
The hidden cost of supporting USDT and USDC across five blockchains, and how to consolidate stablecoin acceptance onto a single payment rail.
Anthony Potdevin
May 20, 2026
How to Eliminate Chargebacks: A Practical Guide
Six strategies to reduce chargebacks on your card payments, and one structural option that removes them from your payment stack entirely.
Anthony Potdevin
May 12, 2026
RailsX Is Live: The Global Economy Deserves Truly Decentralized Financial Infrastructure
Bitcoin demonstrated that a monetary network can be fully decentralized. What Bitcoin could not do, until now, was extend those properties to trading, stablecoins, and foreign exchange. That changes today with RailsX.
Jesse Shrader
April 28, 2026
Lightning Just Settled a $1M Payment in Seconds. Here's the Infrastructure That Made It Possible.
On January 28, 2026, Secure Digital Markets moved $1,000,000 over the Bitcoin Lightning Network to Kraken. It settled in seconds. The fee was less than a penny.
Jesse Shrader
March 4, 2026
How to Accept Bitcoin Lightning Payments with No KYC: A Complete Self-Custody Setup Guide
Most payment processors require identity verification, bank accounts, and business registration before you can accept a single dollar. Bitcoin Lightning payments work differently.
Jesse Shrader
February 27, 2026
Driving the Golden Spike: How Lightning Is Building the Railroads of the Internet of Money
A deep historical analogy between the construction of the transcontinental railroad and the rise of the Lightning Network, mapping protocol engineers, infrastructure builders, liquidity providers, arbitrageurs, and intelligence layers to show how Bitcoin’s second layer is becoming the backbone of a new global economy.
Jesse Shrader
February 20, 2026
RailsX, The First Lightning-Native DEX: Revolutionizing Arbitrage, Yields, and Global Trade on Bitcoin
Announcing RailsX: the culmination of five years of innovation at Amboss, combining Magma, Rails, and our Graph ML research into an elegantly simple product for P2P trading on Lightning.
Jesse Shrader
January 23, 2026
Unlocking the Full Potential of Lightning for Your Business
Lightning has evolved in 2025 to support high-value, high-volume business critical-payments, including $100,000+ transactions, payroll, global wires, exchange settlements, and treasury strategy. But there's a part of Lightning that most teams haven't figured out yet: accessing yield while you move payments.
Mario Pazos
January 6, 2026
Stablecoin Privacy Is Broken by Design — Lightning Fixes It at the Architecture Level
On most blockchains today, stablecoins leak financial information by default (balances, transaction history, and counterparties) to anyone you interact with. The Bitcoin Lightning Network fixes this.
Anthony Potdevin
December 22, 2025
Lightning Isn't Just for Micropayments
The Lightning Network was originally designed to completely remove limitations on transaction scaling while keeping bitcoin's trustless and permissionless qualities. It gained early momentum with El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender, offering a faster, cheaper, and scalable solution for Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
Jesse Shrader
December 1, 2025
How to Mint Assets on Taproot Assets for Custodians and Issuers
A practical guide for custodians and issuers to mint and deploy Taproot Assets using tapd, integrate them with Amboss Rails, and unlock Bitcoin-native liquidity and yield opportunities.
Jesse Shrader
November 13, 2025
Solving Stablecoin Fragmentation with Lightning
The stablecoin market has exploded across dozens of blockchains — Ethereum, Solana, Tron, Polygon, Avalanche, and more. Each chain brings its own wallets, addresses, and liquidity pools. What was meant to expand access has instead created fragmentation and inefficiency.
Nikki McPherson
November 1, 2025
Scaling Bitcoin Payments with Intelligence: Introducing MPFlow
Bitcoin's Lightning Network has always promised instant, low-cost, trustless payments at internet scale. But one challenge remains: how to efficiently allocate liquidity so payments can flow freely through the network. Today, we're excited to share the results of our newest research.
Harrison Rush
October 20, 2025
Introducing Magma v2. Simplified Liquidity, Aligned Incentives, and AI-Powered Efficiency
Acquiring inbound liquidity on the Lightning Network has historically been one of its most frustrating challenges. Between picking the right peer, choosing a channel size, and verifying uptime or routing reliability, many node operators, especially new ones, get stuck before they ever receive a payment.
Nikki McPherson
August 11, 2025
Smarter Search with Bayesian Binary Search — A Breakthrough for Bitcoin and Beyond
At the intersection of artificial intelligence and decentralized finance, a new advancement is proving how Bitcoin infrastructure can help solve problems far beyond its original scope. We're excited to share that our research, a collaboration between Amboss Technologies and Stillmark, was just published in Algorithms, a peer-reviewed journal.
Jesse Shrader
July 25, 2025
From DePIN to DeVIN: Scaling Bitcoins Infrastructure Through Rails
DeVIN — the Decentralized Virtual Infrastructure Network — is a new paradigm enabled by Rails. It invites Bitcoin holders to actively support the Lightning Network by operating routing nodes and contributing liquidity — while accessing BTC-native yield.
Mario Pazos
July 7, 2025
Introducing Rails — Unlock Secure Bitcoin Yield While Powering the Lightning Network
We are excited to announce the launch of Rails, a groundbreaking Liquidity Provider (LP) service designed to help corporate treasuries and Bitcoin custodians earn yield on their Bitcoin while supporting the growth of the Lightning Network!
Nikki McPherson
May 29, 2025
Liquidity Subscriptions: Supercharge Your Lightning Node for Seamless Bitcoin Payments
At Amboss, we empower businesses to harness the full potential of the Lightning Network. For those already running their own Lightning node, our new Liquidity Subscriptions offer a game-changing way to optimize payment processing, reduce costs, and enhance reliability.
Nikki McPherson
May 7, 2025
Magnolia Financial Selects Reflex as Compliance Provider
Magnolia Financial, the Bitcoin-native financial services company focused on simplifying onramp and custody for Bitcoin businesses, today announced its partnership with Amboss Technologies.
Jesse Shrader
April 17, 2025
Magma AI: Intelligent Channel Management for Lightning Network
Amboss, the intelligence layer for Bitcoin payments, today announced Magma AI, the first machine learning-powered channel recommender for the Lightning Network. By analyzing network data to recommend optimal channel configurations, Magma AI helps node operators improve routing performance and manage liquidity more efficiently.
Jesse Shrader
December 12, 2024
The Metric That Matters for the Lightning Network
The Lightning Network is a revolutionary scaling solution for Bitcoin, enabling fast and inexpensive payments that make everyday transactions with Bitcoin possible. As the network grows, it's essential to measure its health and efficiency accurately, so we can unlock its full potential.
Jesse Shrader
October 22, 2024
Introducing Ghost Addresses
Anyone running their own lightning node will be able to have a Lightning Address without needing a custodial third party and without needing a publicly accessible server.
Jesse Shrader
December 21, 2023
The Current State of Hydro
The Lightning Network is a Layer-2 protocol on the Bitcoin blockchain. A payment channel is established between two parties.
Vincent
November 2, 2023
The LINER Index: How Amboss is Shaping a More Inclusive Future for Finance
Today, I want to discuss a project that is very close to our hearts and represents a significant step forward for our mission of redefining financial systems - the Lightning Network Rate (LINER).
Jesse Shrader
June 6, 2023
Lightning Balance Sharing and Network Statistics
When Anthony and I first started working together, we experimented with all sorts of names and business models until settling on “Amboss”.
Jesse Shrader
October 26, 2022
Magma: A New Channel Marketplace on Lightning
We’re proud to announce that Amboss is launching Magma, a peer-to-peer channel marketplace for the Lightning Network.
Jesse Shrader
April 26, 2022
