Eclair
Bitcoin Nodes
Eclair is a Lightning Network implementation written in Scala by ACINQ, the team behind the Phoenix wallet. It is production-grade, spec-compliant, and serves as the Lightning backend for ACINQ's infrastructure. Eclair focuses on reliability and performance for routing nodes and exchange integrations.
Details
- Platform
- linux, mac, windows
- Developer
- ACINQ
- Node Type
- lightning_node
- Open Source
- Yes
- Hardware Required
- No
- Lightning Support
- Yes
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