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Megalith
One of the largest routing nodes on the Lightning Network. Offers LSPS1 and just-in-time (LSPS2) channels for self-custodial wallets and node runners.
Lightning Service Provider Comparison
A practical overview of the LSPs you can connect to with Alby Hub — so you can pick the right liquidity partner for your self-custodial Lightning wallet.
What is an LSP?
The Lightning Network is a payment layer built on top of Bitcoin. Payments travel over payment channels — two-party balances locked in a Bitcoin transaction that allow instant, low-fee transfers without touching the blockchain for every payment.
To send or receive Lightning payments, your wallet needs at least one channel with sufficient capacity. Opening a channel requires an on-chain transaction, and to receive sats you also need inbound liquidity — funds on the other side of a channel pointing at you.
A Lightning Service Provider (LSP) solves this. An LSP is a well-connected Lightning node that opens a channel to your wallet on demand, often providing inbound liquidity in the same step. No node operations, no peer hunting, no liquidity management — pay a fee, get a usable channel in seconds.
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Instant payments
Send and receive sats in milliseconds with negligible fees, anywhere in the world.
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Channels
Two-party balances locked on-chain that route off-chain payments through the network.
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Liquidity
Inbound liquidity is the capacity on the LSP's side of the channel — it's what lets you receive.
LSPs supported by Alby Hub
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Olympus by ZEUS
Built by the ZEUS wallet team. Offers JIT 0-conf channels with wrapped-invoice privacy and open APIs — widely embedded in self-custodial wallets.
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LNServer Wave
Positions itself on price — "liquidity at the lowest rates in the market." Up to 10M sats inbound with flexible 3–12 month terms.
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Magma by Amboss
A peer-to-peer liquidity marketplace rather than a single LSP — buy channels from many node operators at sizes from 500k up to 5M sats.
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LQwD
Publicly listed (TSXV: LQWD) Lightning infrastructure company. Enterprise liquidity, now pivoted toward agentic and machine-to-machine micropayments via LQWD.ai.
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Flashsats
Small-scale LSP aimed at new Lightning nodes that can't yet receive. Inbound channels up to 2M sats with flexible 4-week to 1-year terms.
Self-custody and the freedom to choose
An LSP opens a Lightning channel to your node. That only matters if you actually control the node on the other end. With a custodial wallet, someone else holds your keys, picks your peers, and decides whether you can move your sats — there is no "your channel" to speak of.
Self-custody puts you in charge of three things: your keys, your channels, and your routing relationships. Lose any one of them and you're back to asking permission.
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Your keys, your sats
Only the holder of the keys can sign transactions. Self-custody means no provider can freeze, censor, or lose your funds for you.
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Choice of LSP
Different providers have different fees, capacity, jurisdictions, and uptime. If one disappears or raises prices, you can open a channel with another — no migration, no lock-in.
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Choice of node
You decide which node software to run, which peers to connect to, and whether to keep channels public or private. Your routing graph is yours to shape.
This is why Alby Hub ships with multiple LSPs out of the box rather than locking you into one. A healthy Lightning Network is one where users — not a handful of providers — choose where their liquidity comes from.
Use these LSPs with Alby Hub
Alby Hub is a self-custodial Lightning wallet you run yourself. Full control of your keys and channels, with one-click connections to every LSP listed on this page.
No command line. No node maintenance. Built-in support for Nostr Wallet Connect so any compatible app can pay through your hub.
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