VLS Roadmap

March 2023

Developer Preview

Minimize chances of accidental fund loss.

  • Works with CLN socket mode and LDK
  • Encrypted cloud state backup
  • A complete set of layer-2 validation rules
  • Disaster recovery from signer and node failure
  • Optional validation rules (e.g. velocity, approval)
  • Basic policy audit (internal and independent third party)

Limitations:

  • Embedded (Rust no_std) signers not supported
  • Routing not supported
  • On-chain state tracking not supported
June 2023

Beta Release (v0.9)

Designed to be secure against a malicious node.

  • A complete set of layer-1 validation rules (on-chain tracking)
  • Heartbeat and alerts
  • Allowlist

Limitations:

  • Embedded (Rust no_std) signers not supported
  • Routing not supported
June 2023

Developer Preview: Greenlight + VLS

  • Full VLS signer integration with Greenlight
  • Developers building with the gl-client or additional layers like the Breez SDK can now easily access the VLS signer, without any need for modifications
August 2023

v0.10 (Beta 2)

  • Focused on supporting low resource signers
  • Full support for a Rust no_std (microcontroller) mode
  • Signer can run on modest amounts of RAM and ROM
  • Tuning performance for embedded processors
February 2024

v0.11 (Beta 3)

  • Tag team signing (multi-signer) support (not multi-sig)
  • Latency and memory usage fine tuning
  • Dockerized VLS + services (vlsd, cln/ldk, txood, lssd, bitcoind)
August 2024

v0.12

  • LSS support in vlsd2
  • Various bug fixes and policy updates
  • Logging improvements
TBD

v0.13

  • Disaster Recovery
  • Fuzzing
  • Stress Testing
TBD

Dual Funding

  • Dual funding support
TBD

Splicing

TBD

VLS for Enterprise Use Cases

  • Signer runs in hardened server
  • Signer can handle millions of channels and payments
  • VSS integration
TBD

Routing

™Soon

Features

To submit feature requests, click here.

  • Bolt 12 support
  • L402
  • VLS in mobile Secure Enclave (we need your help to convince Apple/Samsung 🙏)
Soon™

Multi-sig Lightning

Pending maturity of Lightning network implementations of Taproot, Musig2 and FROST.

  • No single point of failure