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thunderhub

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ThunderHub

  • Name: ThunderHub
  • URL: https://thunderhub.io/
  • Category: Lightning node manager / LND-and-litd operations control plane / Taproot Assets interface
  • Tags: bitcoin-ecosystem
  • Summary: ThunderHub is an LND-and-litd admin panel. Good operator software, but still mainly a web console for channel, fee, swap, access-control, and Taproot Assets workflows rather than a category-defining control-plane anchor.
  • What it does:
    • Provides a web-based interface to monitor and manage LND or litd nodes from desktop or mobile browsers
    • Shows Lightning and on-chain balances, routing activity, channel liquidity, fee policies, transaction history, UTXOs, and network information
    • Lets operators send and receive Lightning or on-chain bitcoin, open and close channels, decode invoices, rebalance channels, manage backups, and sign or verify messages
    • Integrates submarine and reverse swaps through Boltz
    • Adds Taproot Assets support for minting, burning, transferring assets, creating asset-denominated invoices, and managing universes or trading offers
    • Supports multi-node access, master or per-account passwords, optional database-backed user accounts with team support, and deployment through Docker and reverse proxies
    • Commonly gets deployed inside packaged-node and hosted-node stacks rather than standing alone as the main operator substrate
  • Key claims:
    • The docs describe ThunderHub as an “open-source Lightning Network node manager” with a web-based interface for managing LND or litd from any device or browser
    • The feature list says ThunderHub supports Lightning and on-chain balances, channel lists and fee policies, LNURL, rebalancing, backups, macaroon management, and mobile-friendly dashboards
    • The docs say ThunderHub supports Taproot Assets, including mint, burn, transfer, asset invoices, universe management, and trading offers
    • The security section highlights TOTP-based 2FA, AES-encrypted macaroon support, password hashing, and SSO cookie-based authentication
    • The integrations section says ThunderHub is included or supported across BTCPay Server, RaspiBlitz, myNode, Voltage, and Umbrel
    • The litd guide says ThunderHub can connect to Lightning Labs’ all-in-one litd daemon and expose full node management together with Taproot Assets support
  • Whitepaper: No canonical standalone ThunderHub whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the official site, the docs portal, and the litd integration docs; see ../whitepapers/thunderhub-primary-sources-2026-05-01.md.
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