The Lightning swap app is one of Alby´s hack projects. Swapping your tokens and cryptocurrencies to Bitcoin and moving into your Alby-connected Lightning wallet is now just a tap away. Users can access this app from the Alby browser extension and top up their connected Lightning wallet through a

What is a Middleware? A middleware comes in the middle of the request and response cycle. In simple words, it is the code that runs before handling the request to the server. It is mainly used for the verification of requests and routing them to the resource it is appropriate.

Q&A with Alby by the Stacker News community. Some interesting exchanges with the community about Alby, the future of Lightning and building on the Lightning Network

The main goal of the project is to build a solution that leverages the widely underused HTTP 402 (payment required) status code and LSAT — a protocol standard for authentication and paid APIs) to make microtransactions possible to get access to ad-free content or any paid APIs.

Bitcoin transactions hold only static data which doesn’t include much more relevant information to look into. what if transactions can have additional information (metadata).