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Lightning grows, and it was a lot last year!

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For years, Bitcoiners pushed exchanges to adopt Lightning.

And guess what? It worked. Public Lightning volume is up 266% in about a year.

A few interesting insights from our new River (nprofile…qxwz) report:

Our previous Lightning research in 2023 showed a 1212% increase in transactions.

Many of these were low value, as people experimented with new apps & business models.

Now, a new wave of bigger volume has come in, driven by exchanges.

We used the same methodology for our estimates as in 2023, but instead of having data on 52% of public capacity, we now got up to 79.4%

A massive thank you to Acinq, Alby (nprofile…q7y6), Bitfinex, Breez_tech (nprofile…z585), C=, LNBϟG (nprofile…kpvj), Kraken, LQWD, NiceHash, OKX, Cyberdyne, Sunny Sarah, THNDR (nprofile…udgq), and Wallet of Satoshi (nprofile…0y44) for sharing data.

The Lightning industry continues to grow

We’ve updated our map, adding 46 new companies and removing 12.

We expect Lightning to continue growing:
- On-chain fees remain low, slowing adoption.
- USDT on Lightning may increase activity.
- Dozens of scaling proposals continue to build on Lightning.

More Lightning + Bitcoin adoption trends in our new report 👇
https://blog.river.com/bitcoin-adoption-2025/