Lightning · Maintained 2026
Lightning onion routing
Lightning uses layered onion-encrypted routing instructions so each forwarding node learns what it needs for its own hop rather than the complete route; this improves privacy but does not make all payment metadata anonymous.
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Lightning uses layered onion-encrypted routing instructions so each forwarding node learns what it needs for its own hop rather than the complete route; this improves privacy but does not make all payment metadata anonymous.
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- Lightning uses layered onion-encrypted routing instructions so each forwarding node learns what it needs for its own hop rather than the complete route; this improves privacy but does not make all payment metadata anonymous.
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