🔥 Announcing the release of Polar v3.0.0! 🚀 This release comes with support for the latest LND, Core Lightning, and Eclair versions, as well as a new addition to the app. Polar now includes Lightning Terminal (litd) nodes with support for Taproot Assets channels.

Lightning Terminal nodes contain both LND and tapd integrated into a single daemon. They can mint, send and receive assets on-chain, as well as open/close channels and send/receive Lightning payments.

A recipient can create an invoice to receive assets and it can be paid with either the same asset or BTC.

The opposite is true as well. A sender can choose to pay a BTC invoice using the asset of their choosing or BTC. The recipient doesn’t even need to be a litd node. They can be Core Lightning, Eclair, or LND.

Lightning Terminal nodes also support connecting to them via Lightning Node Connect (LNC). Just create a new session and copy the pairing phrase into any app that supports LNC. Here’s the excellent @ZeusLN wallet connecting and making payments.

This release also includes a handful of quality of life improvements:

Check out the full release notes and download the update on Github

Downloads are also available on

Huge thanks to the contributors to the project, including 5 new folks getting their first PR merged. Thanks to @btrust_builders for pointing new Bitcoin devs to the project. A special shoutout goes to @dstrukt__ for the great design assistance in this release. 🙏

If alice minted PUSD, how dave received those 400 the first time to open a PUSD channel with erin?

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