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> “ACINQ, one of the [...] companies [...] working on Lightning, a payment
> network that makes Bitcoin faster while lowering transaction costs [...]
> raises $1.7 million.”

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A BITCOIN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

ACINQ is one of the leading companies working on Bitcoin scalability.

Together with other members of the community, we are building an open standard
for Lightning, a scalable instant payment network for the Bitcoin blockchain.

Check out our products based on the stack:


PHOENIX

A Bitcoin wallet with native Lightning support


ACINQ NODE

The largest node on the Lightning Network
Would like to get in touch?
Say hello@acinq.co


LATEST NEWS

 * October 9th, 2019
   
   
   ACINQ, ONE OF THE MAIN DEVELOPERS OF THE BITCOIN LIGHTNING NETWORK, RAISES
   $8M
   
   This investment brings total funding to $10M to date. It will allow ACINQ to
   grow its team, improve the Lightning protocol and expand its business as a
   major operator and liquidity provider. The round was led by Idinvest
   Partners, with the participation of Serena and Bpifrance.
   
   Download the press release.

 * October 4th, 2018
   
   
   ACINQ RAISES $1.7M TO ACCELERATE WORLDWIDE ADOPTION OF THE BITCOIN LIGHTNING
   NETWORK
   
   The French company has secured a $1.7M Series Seed funding led by Serena,
   with the participation of Bertrand Diard (Talend), Sébastien Lucas, Bitcoin
   trader Alistair Milne and Yves Weisselberger. This latest investment brings
   the total funding to $2M to date.
   
   Download the press release.

 * December 6th, 2017
   
   
   LIGHTNING PROTOCOL 1.0: COMPATIBILITY ACHIEVED
   
   We’re excited to announce version 1.0 RC of the Lightning protocol
   specification along with a successful cross-implementation test on Bitcoin
   mainnet.
   
   Read the full statement.

 * August 24th, 2017
   
   
   TOWARDS A UNIFIED LIGHTNING NETWORK
   
   We are thrilled about today’s activation of Segwit on Bitcoin, a major step
   forward in making Bitcoin more usable and scalable.
   
   We’d like to announce our effort toward compatibility between implementations
   on the Lightning Network specification.
   
   Read the full statement.

 * March 21st, 2017
   
   
   EARLY RELEASE OF ECLAIR
   
   During the past months, we have been hard at work refining the Lightning
   Network specifications (BOLTs) in collaboration with other teams. At the same
   time, we were implementing these specifications into Eclair.
   
   Today we are proud to announce the release of Eclair 0.2-alpha1, the first
   BOLT-compliant Lightning Network implementation.
   
   Read more on our blog.

 * October 17th, 2016
   
   
   CONVERGENCE ON A STANDARD FOR THE LIGHTNING NETWORK
   
   Following Scaling Bitcoin Milan, members of the Lightning Network community
   including ACINQ and prominent Bitcoin companies produced a general outline
   for agreement on the Lightning Network protocol scope and specification.
   
   This meeting is an important milestone and a culmination of one year of
   efforts and experimentations by the participants. It paves the way for a
   first release of the Lightning Network in the coming months.
   
   Download the press release.

 * September 27th, 2016
   
   
   SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF BITFURY'S FLARE ROUTING ALGORITHM
   
   ACINQ and the Bitfury Group are proud to announce the successful test of a
   routing prototype for the Lightning Network. ACINQ successfully implemented
   Bitfury's Flare routing algorithm into Eclair, and tested it on a live
   network of 2500 servers.
   
   This is a promising first step in the development of a scalable routing
   framework for the Lightning Network.
   
   Download the press release.