"Boltz, the bitcoin-only instant swap exchange, is cornering a niche sector of the bitcoin industry and quickly becoming a favorite of advanced bitcoin users. Its fully open source tech stack, which is actually trust-less, unlocks a variety of possibilities for the industry, including a zero-custody risk bridge across Bitcoin layers. Boltz exchange was founded in 2019 by Kilian and another pseudonymous co-founder, as a solution to managing liquidity in the Lightning Network for an early Bitcoin Defi project called OpenDex."
"The Boltz Lightning node is one of the biggest, boasting on its website 759 Channels, 1022 Peers, 84.625 BTC worth of capacity, and 6.60 years since the oldest operating channel was opened, though these metrics are likely out of date. Their Lightning Network support lets advanced lightning node operators 'balance their channels' an otherwise complicated process that generally gets obfuscated away from end users of lighting powered Bitcoin wallets."
Boltz is a bitcoin-only instant swap exchange and liquidity service provider focused on advanced users and Lightning Network operators. The platform uses a fully open-source, trust-less tech stack that enables zero-custody bridges across Bitcoin layers. Founded in 2019 by Kilian and a pseudonymous co-founder to manage Lightning liquidity for OpenDex, Boltz pivoted to operate as an LSP and has been self-funded since. The infrastructure integrates with multiple wallets, including BTCPay Server, Aqua, Bull Bitcoin, and Breez. Boltz runs a large Lightning node with extensive channels, peers, and BTC capacity, and supports on-chain↔Lightning swaps as well as Rootstock and Liquid, dealing only in BTC.
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