Right now, Breez launches Misty Breez, their newest software constructed utilizing the Breez SDK. The Breez SDK was initially developed to simplify the method of integrating Lightning Network assist into completely different shopper purposes. Dozens of present initiatives and firms presently construct on Lightning utilizing the SDK.
The SDK helps two strategies of Lightning integration. Native, which permits app builders to combine a Lightning pockets or performance using the Greenlight service supplied by Blockstream, which permits the pockets supplier to host a cloud based mostly Lightning node for customers whereas maintaining personal keys solely within the customers management, and Nodeless, which permits Liquid assist to seamlessly combine with the Lightning Community. Each fashions supported within the SDK give full assist to the vary of options obtainable on the Lightning Community, in addition to Liquid, with out the complexity of getting to construct assist from scratch.
Misty Breez is constructed on the Nodeless SDK tooling. Because of this customers’ cash are self-custodied on the Liquid sidechain, giving customers the power to totally management their very own funds but in addition requiring the belief trade-offs concerned in utilizing the Liquid Community (i.e. that almost all Federation signers will stay trustworthy and reliable).
The pockets helps BOLT 11 and BOLT 12 invoices, LNURL-Pay, Lightning Addresses, on-chain BTC addresses, and even Matt Corrallo’s BIP 353 utilizing DNS to fetch fee particulars for an additional person’s pockets. It additionally helps offline funds based mostly on cell notifications within the cellphone’s working system.
Breez SDK’s purpose is to offer builders with the tooling to construct a seamless and use-case particular person expertise with as little effort as attainable. In that vein Misty Breez goals to set a benchmark for a simplified person expertise that different builders can use as a reference for Lightning integration into their very own purposes, and even to construct on high of Misty Breez itself. In order for you, be at liberty to easily combine the performance you search to construct into Misty Breez itself and rebrand it nonetheless you need (it’s 100% opensource).
Documentation for the Breez SDK Nodeless configuration utilized by Misty Breez is offered here. The Github for the Misty Breez implementation is offered here. Lastly, for customers who want to mess around with the applying, early entry launch is offered here for Android, and here for iOS.
A direct APK obtain is offered here.
All of the tooling for builders to construct a brand new UX expertise for customers is right here as we speak.