Watch a stablecoin cross the network
Lightning moves Bitcoin through a web of payment channels in about a second. PhotonBolt's hub carries RGB stablecoins inside those channels. Pick a sender, a receiver and an amount below, and follow the payment hop by hop.
Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, click a node for its channels. Click the sky up here to strike lightning.
How Lightning works
Channels
Two people lock funds in one Bitcoin transaction. After that they can pay each other back and forth as often as they like, just by updating who owns how much.
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Each hop locks the payment with a hash. It can only be claimed with the secret (preimage) that the receiver holds, so nobody in the middle can steal it.
Routing
You don't need a channel with everyone. The payment hops through connected channels, and each router earns a tiny fee. If one hop lacks liquidity, the whole payment unlocks safely.
Settlement
Balances change instantly off-chain. When a channel closes, the final split is written to Bitcoin. That's why Lightning is fast and still backed by Bitcoin's security.
How RGB rides on Lightning
An RGB channel holds two things: some bitcoin, and an RGB asset amount such as USDT. Every channel update moves the USDT split along with the sats, and the RGB state is committed to the same Bitcoin outputs. The dollars travel inside the channel. There is no bridge and no other blockchain; the token history is checked privately by the receiver (client-side validation).
Why the hub is the moat
On Lightning, a payment can only go where liquidity already sits. The best-funded, best-connected hub becomes the route everyone uses, and every payment through it makes it more useful. PhotonBolt's hub already links wallets, merchants and public nodes, and funding it with stablecoin liquidity is the core of the plan.
Live today, next up
✅ Live on the practice network
- Live5 RGB Lightning nodes in the PhotonBolt hub
- LivePayments between hub users settle in about 1 second
- LiveMulti-party "school" scenario (Parent, Student, Hotel, Stationery) passes 7/7
- LiveEncrypted, off-site backups of every node's channels
- TodayBrowser-wallet transfers go on-chain: about 15–30 seconds
🚀 Next
- NextInstant accounts: every wallet pays through the hub in about a second
- NextInstall to first payment in under 60 seconds
- NextUSDT ⇄ BTC swaps over Lightning
- PlannedBuy a channel with stablecoins inside (LSP), merchant tools
- PlannedYour own channel on a phone, watchtower (after funding)