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Core Lightning 26.04 "Negative Routing Fees" has shipped.

Splicing is out of experimental, the node runs leaner, and peer messages are now padded to resist traffic analysis. ⚡



Splicing lets you resize channels without closing them, cutting open/close overhead, freeing idle capital, and ending reliance on centralized liquidity providers. 26.04 also ships parallel pathfinding improvements, payer notes on xpay, and roughly 20% smaller binaries.

https://blog.blockstream.com/core-lightning-26-04-negative-routing-fees/

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https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v26.04

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CR45H 0V3RR1D3 · 6d
Lightning address yet?
nick · 6d
Awesome, can't wait to try negative routing fees to restore inbound capacity for the nostr:nprofile1qqsy3hc9jy28npuqzmc908td6cmx6dtaf36llel2adch6kynwksywecl78fv9 checkout
Feelancer21 · 6d
I don't get what's funny about the release name. Negative routing fees could be an extension of the Blip18 inbound fees, which CLN has refused to adopt to this day. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/discussions/9142