Blog Post: Advancements in Lightning Infrastructure

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[Arvin21M]

@niftynei Would really appreciate a direct quote once you get a chance to review 🙏

[Arvin21M]

@OpenSats/volunteers if you have a moment to spare, would you please do a quick sanity check on the writeup? 🙏

[DanielFeichtinger]

@Arvin21M Many thanks, looking great!

A couple of tweaks from our end:

• Could we remove reference to the microcontroller work? It's on the back burner while we close out some other stuff and we don't want to give the impression that it's ready to deploy.
• Could we replace the looking forward section with some of the detail from our doc? (It supersedes the milestones on the website.) Something like: "Looking ahead, VLS aims for full mainnet readiness within a year, with plans to add support for new Lightning features like splicing and dual funding. The team is focusing on enabling enterprises to confidently manage millions in channel funds."

[Arvin21M]

@DanielFeichtinger
Thanks for those suggestions.
Please take another look to see if I made those edits as your comment intended.
LMK if we still need to make another tweak or two to make things more precise 🙏

[Bayernatoor]

Re-reviewed changes, sanity check done. Looks good to me! 👏

[vincenzopalazzo]

Sorry to be late to the party, I left some comments.

Overall LGTM :)

[optout21]

From Splicing/Optout part, I would suggest 3 minor edits -- see them commented inline.

• The paragraph "This work has required ... interrupting active transactions" should be dropped altogether, as it contains minute details that don't add much info in this context.
• In the following paragraph, some small changes:
• Remove ldk-node from the list
• Rephrase next sentence to "Although several foundational pull requests have been
  merged, further work is needed to finalize integration into LDK and
  ensure interoperability before Splicing is fully production-ready within LDK."

Otherwise good job, thank you gentlemen!

[Arvin21M]

• The review process for this draft by the grantees with their respective projects included in this draft (via change requests, or go-ahead with no change requests) appears to be complete at this point.
• One final review by OS board member and adding quote in opening section are the final steps.
• Thanks to everyone who spent time reviewing.

🙏

[jonatack]

Read this quickly. One nit that came to mind: variants of "enabl(e|ed|ing)" are used 11 times and "leverag(e|ing)" 3 times. To my mind, these are MBA consultant-style words that are easy to overuse. Feel free to ignore!

Edit: otherwise looks great!

[jonatack]

Update commit a596508 looks good 👍

[dergigi]

Looks good to me!

Thanks everyone for helping to get this out the door. 🙏 ---

[dergigi]

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