🤖Technology
Our Technical Stack
Lnfi is built on the most powerful innovations in Bitcoin infrastructure—combining the security of Bitcoin, the scalability of the Lightning Network, the extended programmability and digital identity of Nostr to build an open, decentralised and interoperable internet, powered by multi-asset issuance with Taproot Assets and RGB protocols.
These technologies form the foundation of Lnfi to unlock multi-asset DeFi on the Lightning Network, enabling users to trade, earn, and manage Bitcoin, Taproot Assets, and RGB assets via LightningFi.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is the world’s most secure chain and arguably the most secure computer network in the world.
With >900 quintillion hashes/sec, its computational power dwarfs all supercomputers combined. This creates the only network capable of meeting institutional demands: immovable finality, Byzantine fault tolerance, and censorship-resistant settlement.
When trillions in assets tokenise, they require this level of bedrock security. Anything less is a compromise.
What is the Lightning Network?
The Lightning Network is a peer-to-peer payment network. It leverages payment channels anchored on the Bitcoin blockchain to enable near instant and low-cost settlement of bitcoin between participants. Multiple such payment channels are chained together to deliver payments to anyone in the network without requiring trust in participants.
Lightning is the perfect solution for scaling transactions and payments. If you want to scale, you can’t use a single shared state. You have to use peer-to-peer channels.
Lightning’s channel-based architecture enables horizontal scaling, powering a global network of billions of users, trillions of AI agents, and quadrillions of microtransactions.
What is Nostr?
Nostr ("Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays") is the decentralized communication protocol powering the open internet.
While Bitcoin provides unhackable security and Lightning enables instant, programmable value transfer, Nostr provides the essential decentralized messaging layer for coordination.
Censorship-Resistant Infrastructure: Not controlled by corporations or governments. Anyone can run a relay or build a client.
Global Interoperability: Breaks down walled gardens. Applications and users communicate seamlessly across the network.
Secure Digital Identity & Data: Enables portable, user-controlled identities (like NIP-05) and verifiable data transmission – foundational for trust in tokenized ecosystems.
Open Coordination Layer: Powers critical functions like order book matching (e.g., LN Exchange), asset provenance tracking, KYC/attestation flows, and community governance – without central points of failure or control.
In essence, Nostr is the neutral, open "nervous system" enabling permissionless communication and coordination essential for a truly decentralised financial future built on Bitcoin.
What are Bitcoin Layer 2s?
Layer 2 protocols extend Bitcoin’s capabilities by building on top of its base layer without modifying the underlying consensus rules. This design preserves Bitcoin’s security and decentralization while introducing features that will be useful for specific use cases. These include faster transaction speeds, reduced fees, programmable logic, and privacy enhancements. For tokenizing assets like real estate, private credit, commodities, or sovereign bonds, these improvements are essential.
Bitcoin Layer 2s provide the technical foundation to issue, manage, and settle tokenized assets in a way that meets both institutional standards and global accessibility requirements.
About Taproot Assets Protocol
Taproot Assets enables asset issuance directly on Bitcoin, with native compatibility with the Lightning Network. It combines on-chain anchoring with off-chain speed, offering near-instant asset transfers.
About RGB
RGB offers privacy-preserving smart contracts that don’t burden the base chain. It’s ideal for sensitive financial instruments where data confidentiality is essential. For example, fractionalized real estate or private credit issued with zero public data exposure. Assets issued on RGB are also compatible with RGB-Lightning for global instant settlements.
Together, they form the full stack:
1. Bitcoin = Truth (global settlement)
2. Lightning = Speed (programmable value flow)
3. Nostr = Voice (permissionless coordination)
This is why tokenisation will converge on Bitcoin: no other stack offers security without sacrificing speed, or scale without sacrificing sovereignty.
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