Lightning Labs

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Lightning Labs, founded in 2016 by Elizabeth Stark and Olaoluwa Osuntokun in San Francisco, builds core infrastructure for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Its flagship implementation LND powers a majority of Lightning nodes, enabling instant, low-fee bitcoin payments, while Taproot Assets extends Lightning to issue stablecoins and tokens on Bitcoin. The company also provides Lightning Loop, Pool and Faraday tools for liquidity management and node operations serving developers, wallets and exchanges worldwide. Headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team, Lightning Labs is backed by leading investors and stewards open-source development alongside protocol research. The team champions Bitcoin scalability through careful protocol design. Expect an engineering-heavy, research-informed culture that values peer review, reliability and extending Bitcoin for everyday payments globally today.