Lightning Network

Launch instant Bitcoin payments with a non-custodial gateway

Provision managed nodes, route global micropayments and settle straight to your wallets. ForgingBlock handles liquidity and uptime while you keep keys and economics.

0.3% fee • Unlimited channelsNon-custodial architecture
  • Managed channels across 45+ regions
  • Treasury rules for auto-rebalancing
  • Webhooks, SDKs and live status tooling
99.99% uptime

Redundant routing across multi-cloud clusters.

45+ liquidity regions

Pre-funded channels with automated rebalancing.

Seconds to settle

Instant confirmations with webhook receipts.

Channel orchestration

Managed infrastructure, merchant-controlled settlement

Provision dedicated Lightning nodes or piggyback on ForgingBlock clusters. Our autopilot balances inbound and outbound capacity while letting you enforce treasury rules, AML regions and failover policies.

  • Multi-node deployments with automated watchtowers
  • Liquidity alerts and playbooks piped to PagerDuty/Slack
  • Policy engine for invoice size, kYC region and asset routing

Who it serves

Built for builders shipping Lightning experiences

From consumer apps to global marketplaces, ForgingBlock removes the ops overhead while you design differentiated flows.

Marketplaces & platforms

Instant vendor payouts with split routing and automated reporting.

Gaming & digital goods

Low-latency microtransactions with fraud guardrails and sandbox keys.

Payment processors

Offer Lightning as-a-service while keeping compliance teams in control.

Fintech & wallets

Embed invoices, LNURL and Keysend with SDKs in JS, PHP and Python.

Developer velocity

Ship Lightning flows in days, not months

Use REST + WebSocket events, sandbox wallets and typed SDKs to issue invoices, confirm settlement and sync metadata across your stack.

  • Webhook retries with signature verification
  • Idempotent APIs and dashboard observability
  • Status page, changelog and SLA-backed support
# Create a Lightning invoice
curl -X POST https://api.forgingblock.io/v1/lightning/invoices \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "amount": "35.00",
    "currency": "USD",
    "metadata": { "order_id": "LN-842" }
  }'

Spin up Lightning without surrendering custody

Schedule a technical workshop to review your throughput targets, compliance requirements and migration plan. ForgingBlock brings the infrastructure; you keep the keys.