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lndg

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LNDg

  • Name: LNDg
  • URL: https://github.com/cryptosharks131/lndg
  • Category: Lightning node-operations control plane / LND analytics-and-automation dashboard / liquidity and fee-management software
  • Tags: bitcoin-ecosystem
  • Summary: LNDg is a self-hosted LND ops console with real automation behind it. The substance is the persistent controller process for fees, rebalancing, watchtowers, and analytics; the dashboard is just the shell.
  • What it does:
    • Provides a web UI for analyzing Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) data and managing node operations
    • Tracks peer events, channel updates, payment and forwarding flows, profitability metrics, watchtowers, and HTLC failures
    • Supports batch channel opens, peer suggestions, fee-rate suggestions, password-protected login, and a REST-style API backend under /api
    • Ships automated fee-management and auto-rebalancer systems with tunable thresholds, retry logic, and autopilot options
    • Uses a persistent backend controller process to update the database, run automation, stream HTLC data, and manage operational workflows
    • Usually gets deployed alongside packaged Bitcoin-and-Lightning node stacks rather than as a thin standalone dashboard
  • Key claims:
    • The README describes LNDg as an “advanced web interface” for analyzing LND data and automating node-management tasks
    • The installation docs say LNDg supports one-click installation on Umbrel, Citadel, Start9, and RaspiBlitz
    • The README says the backend controller.py process manages database updates, automated rebalancing, HTLC stream data, and other backend operations and should run persistently
    • The feature list highlights trackable peer events, watchtower management, fee-rate suggestions, new-peer suggestions, channel performance metrics, HTLC failure streaming, and an API backend
    • The docs say Auto-Fees can automatically update channel fees from performance suggestions and Auto-Rebalancer can automatically manage liquidity to maintain outbound capacity on profitable routes
    • The requirements file shows LNDg is a full application stack built on Django, Django REST Framework, gRPC-related libraries, pandas, cryptography, and related Python components rather than a single-page frontend
  • Whitepaper: No canonical standalone LNDg whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the first-party GitHub README and repository materials; see ../whitepapers/lndg-primary-sources-2026-05-01.md.
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