Polar
Bitcoin Nodes
Polar is a developer-focused tool for creating and managing local Bitcoin and Lightning Network test environments on a desktop computer. With a drag-and-drop interface, developers can spin up multi-node Lightning networks locally using Docker containers — connecting LND, Core Lightning, and Eclair nodes. Polar is widely used in Lightning application development for testing payment flows, channel management, and BOLT compliance before deploying to mainnet.
Details
- Type
- developer_tool
- Platform
- windows, macos, linux
- Lightning
- Yes
- Open Source
- Yes
- Uses Docker
- Yes
- Bitcoin Only
- Yes
- Implementation
- multi-implementation
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