Getting Started

The Lightspark platform offers APIs and SDKs for seamless integration with the Lightning network, allowing you to concentrate on developing your application while we manage the operational complexities. These include:

Maintaining and updating nodes
Ensuring node security and running watchtowers
Managing inbound and outbound liquidity in your channels and rebalancing
Opening channels to routing nodes, handling both cooperative and force closures to other nodes
Managing node backup
Optimizing payment routing for success and minimal fees

The Lightspark API is built on top of GraphQL, a query language for APIs that allows the clients to make queries and fetch exactly the data they need.

In order to use the Lightspark API in test mode, you can access your nodes on the bitcoin_network REGTEST. Your production nodes are on MAINNET. Using the API on your test node doesn't affect your production data or interact with real money.

We do not support bulk update or bulk export of data. However, with the flexibility of GraphQL, you can fetch and mutate multiple entities in a single HTTP request, within the limits of our rate limiting policies.