Taproot support added to LND Lightning client

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Lightning Labs developers have released a beta version of the LND client for the Lightning Network with support for some of the latest bitcoin protocol enhancements, including Taproot.

Announcing lnd 0.15 beta: To Taproot and Beyond! ♾️

Featuring:
🥕Taproot + Musig2 support for better privacy + efficiency, Taro soon™
📉 ~95% database space reduction for new data
🎛️ New pathfinding tool to choose speed vs. cost of payments

Read more: https://t.co/5pavMcpxBg

— Lightning Labs⚡️🍠 (@lightning) June 28, 2022

In addition to the ability to make transactions from Taproot addresses, the LND 0.15 release includes solutions such as:

• new remote procedure call (RPC) methods to support MuSig2 experimental multi-signature;
• Reduced database size by approximately 95% by reducing the amount of information stored in the recall logs. This helps save disk space;
• improved pathfinding variable, which allows payments to reach their lowest cost destination faster;
• a new neutrino subserver that extends application developer tools.

Lightning Labs Principal Product Development Specialist Michael Levin noted that LND 0.15 helps make the Lightning Network more “reliable, resilient, and secure.”

According to him, more than 50 participants joined the release of the new release of the client, which was a record figure in the entire history of the project.

On the bitcoin network, the Taproot update was activated in November 2021.

Recall that in April, the Lightning Labs team introduced the Taro protocol for launching stablecoins in the Lightning Network.

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