Today, Spark has introduced a brand new integration with Wallet of Satoshi, one of many largest Bitcoin Lightning Community (LN) wallets, to deliver customers a “truly self-custodial Lightning experience,” in beta, in accordance with a press launch despatched to Bitcoin Journal.
“From the start, Spark felt like the missing piece,” acknowledged Wallet of Satoshi. “It gave us the foundation to explore self-custody seriously – abstracting away the complex parts of self-custody so we could stay focused on user experience.”
Being self-custodial, this may permit clients to have full management over their Bitcoin. In November 2024, Wallet of Satoshi eliminated its app from the U.S. Apple and Google app shops due to unspecified causes, though seemingly on account of an unfavorable regulatory setting cracking down on Lightning wallets on the time. However now that the regulatory panorama has modified within the U.S., Wallet of Satoshi acknowledged this integration will unlock the flexibility to re-enter and serve the U.S. market.
Wallet of Satoshi additionally confronted limitations when growing its self-custodial Lightning pockets, resembling liquidity necessities, node complexity, and channel administration prices, making it tough to construct a very self-custodial LN pockets — however now, Spark has supplied them an answer.
“We built Spark specifically to solve this exact problem,” the corporate acknowledged. “Spark abstracts away all the complexity for wallets looking to implement Lightning. You don’t need to spin up channels, worry about routing, pre-fund liquidity, or even think about managing nodes. Creating a Lightning wallet on Spark takes just 6 lines of code.”
Spark acknowledged that it’ll proceed constructing out new options because the product evolves, and people fascinated with becoming a member of the beta can depart a touch upon their X publish requesting to affix.
On Might 22, Breez and Spark partnered to launch a brand new implementation of the Breez SDK, constructed on Spark’s Bitcoin-native Layer 2 infrastructure. The SDK helps LNURL, Lightning addresses, real-time cellular notifications, and contains bindings for all main programming languages and frameworks. The collaboration gave builders instruments so as to add Bitcoin fee options to apps used for monetization social apps, cross-border remittances, and in-game currencies.
A day earlier, Spark additionally partnered with Magic Eden to enhance Bitcoin buying and selling by addressing points like gradual transaction occasions, excessive charges, and poor consumer expertise. The combination launched a local settlement system aimed toward making transactions quicker and cheaper, with out utilizing bridges or artificial property.
