Lightspark 正在開發多種基於閃電網路的解決方案，使透過比特幣轉移價值變得更加容易

許多公司都在致力於 LN 的開發，Lightspark 就是其中之一，其聯合創始人兼首席執行官是著名的 David Marcus

Yesterday’s news on Lightning Network is a development that could potentially change the future of Bitcoin in the upcoming years.

昨天有關閃電網路的新聞是一項可能會在未來幾年改變比特幣未來的發展。

The Bitcoin blockchain does not have native support for complex smart contracts, and it has some strong limitations on the supported throughput (TPS).

比特幣區塊鏈本身不支援複雜的智慧合約，並且對支援的吞吐量（TPS）有一些嚴格的限制。

In order to evolve, Bitcoin needs to leverage layer-2 solutions, just as Ethereum is also partially doing, and Lightning Network (LN) is by far the main second layer of Bitcoin.

為了發展，比特幣需要利用第二層解決方案，就像以太坊也在做的那樣，閃電網路（LN）是迄今為止比特幣主要的第二層。

The latest news on the Bitcoin Lightning Network

比特幣閃電網路的最新消息

Many companies are working on developments on LN, and among them is Lightspark, whose co-founder and CEO is the famous David Marcus who was responsible for leading the development and launch of Facebook’s crypto project (Libra) which was later aborted by the company.

許多公司都在致力於LN的開發，其中就有Lightspark，其聯合創始人兼首席執行官是著名的David Marcus，他曾負責領導Facebook加密項目（Libra）的開發和啟動，該項目後來被該公司中止。

Marcus actually started his high-level career at PayPal, and then from there he moved to Facebook, even before the latter changed its name to Meta.

馬庫斯實際上在 PayPal 開始了他的高層職業生涯，然後從那裡轉到 Facebook，甚至在後者更名為 Meta 之前。

He is passionate about Bitcoin, and when Facebook decided to abort the Libra project, mainly due to regulatory issues, he decided to dedicate himself to Bitcoin by founding Lightspark.

他對比特幣充滿熱情，當 Facebook 主要因為監管問題而決定中止 Libra 專案時，他決定透過創立 Lightspark 致力於比特幣。

The news is that Lightspark is working on several solutions based on Lightning Network with the aim of making it easier for institutions and ordinary people to transfer value via Bitcoin.

有消息稱，Lightspark正在開發多種基於閃電網路的解決方案，旨在讓機構和普通民眾更容易透過比特幣轉移價值。

Another co-founder of the project, Kevin Hurley, who is also the CTO, stated it.

該計畫的另一位聯合創始人兼首席技術長 Kevin Hurley 表示。

Lightspark is not only the name of the company, but also the name of their Lightning Service Provider (LSP) that offers an enterprise-level infrastructure to enable even companies to make global payments via LN.

Lightspark 不僅是該公司的名稱，也是其閃電服務供應商 (LSP) 的名稱，該供應商提供企業級基礎設施，使公司甚至能夠透過閃電網路進行全球支付。

Hurley also comes from Facebook’s crypto project, which was renamed Diem before it was shut down.

Hurley 也來自 Facebook 的加密項目，該項目在關閉前更名為 Diem。

In fact, he stated that with Lightspark they are trying to carry forward the vision they had in Diem, which is to “truly open up the financial world, transforming it into something where you can send money as easily as you send data packets today”.

事實上，他表示，透過 Lightspark，他們正試圖推進他們在 Diem 的願景，即「真正開放金融世界，將其轉變為可以像今天發送資料包一樣輕鬆發送資金的東西」 。

Hurley added that some of the lessons learned from the failure of the Diem project are that there is a need for something that is truly decentralized and neutral, and that a platform with a lot of liquidity is also required. These are aspects for which Bitcoin now seems perfect, so it is no coincidence that they chose LN as the platform on which to develop their project.

Hurley 補充道，從 Diem 計畫失敗中學到的一些教訓是，需要真正去中心化和中立的東西，還需要一個具有大量流動性的平台。這些都是比特幣現在看起來很完美的方面，因此他們選擇閃電網路作為開發專案的平台並非巧合。

Among other things, a few weeks ago, Hurley himself had announced on his official X profile that Nubank has selected Lightspark to bring Bitcoin Lightning Network and Universal Money Addresses to its platform.

除此之外，幾週前，赫爾利本人在其官方 X 簡介中宣布，Nubank 已選擇 Lightspark 將比特幣閃電網路和通用貨幣地址引入其平台。

We're so excited to announce that @nubank has selected @lightspark to bring the Bitcoin Lightning Network and Universal Money Addresses to its platform and customers. We are absolutely delighted to work with such a stellar team to bring a much-needed solution to their customers!…

我們非常高興地宣布 @nubank 已選擇 @lightspark 將比特幣閃電網路和通用貨幣地址引入其平台和客戶。我們非常高興與這樣一個優秀的團隊合作，為他們的客戶帶來急需的解決方案！ ...

Nubank is not just a Brazilian bank, but it is also the largest fintech company in all of Latin America, with more than 80 million customers and a valuation exceeding 40 billion dollars.

Nubank不僅是巴西銀行，也是拉丁美洲最大的金融科技公司，擁有超過8,000萬名客戶，估值超過400億美元。

The latest big news at Lightspark: a more inclusive financial system thanks to Bitcoin Lightning Network

Lightspark 最新重大新聞：比特幣閃電網路打造更具包容性的金融體系

Lightspark is not just an LSP, because it also offers an SDK (Software Development Kit), liquidity management through routing nodes, and API services.

Lightspark 不僅僅是一個 LSP，因為它還提供 SDK（軟體開發工具包）、透過路由節點進行流動性管理以及 API 服務。

Their idea is to provide users, such as companies, with a platform that simplifies the use of various Bitcoin protocols and currency exchanges, thus solving what is the single biggest obstacle to the use of these new technologies.

他們的想法是為公司等用戶提供一個平台，簡化各種比特幣協議和貨幣兌換的使用，從而解決使用這些新技術的最大障礙。

The concept is that the management of all the complexity is delegated to the LSP, so that the user can focus on the simpler and more important activities. Additionally, the use of a properly configured LSP also resolves the compliance issues of transactions with current laws.

其概念是將所有複雜性的管理委託給 LSP，以便使用者可以專注於更簡單和更重要的活動。此外，使用正確配置的 LSP 還可以解決交易與現行法律的合規性問題。

Additionally, Lightspark provides a Universal Money Address (UMA) that serves to uniquely identify users’ accounts and to switch from one currency to another.

此外，Lightspark 還提供通用貨幣地址 (UMA)，用於唯一標識使用者帳戶並從一種貨幣轉換為另一種貨幣。

The other developments

其他事態發展

Obviously, however, there is not only Lightspark that is developing on LN.

然而顯然，LN 上開發的不僅僅是 Lightspark。

For example, Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs recently during an interview talked about the new proposal Great Script Restoration Project by Rusty Russell, which aims to restore previously disabled opcodes, such as OP_CAT, to expand the scripting possibilities on the Bitcoin network.

例如，閃電實驗室的Ryan Gentry 最近在接受采訪時談到了Rusty Russell 的新提案“偉大的腳本恢復項目”，該項目旨在恢復以前禁用的操作碼，例如OP_CAT，以擴展比特幣網絡上的腳本編寫可能性。

Perhaps the biggest current technical limitation of Bitcoin is precisely the one related to scripting, given that its layer-1 does not natively support complex smart contracts.

也許比特幣目前最大的技術限制正是與腳本相關的限制，因為它的第一層本身並不支援複雜的智慧合約。

The solution, however, is not to distort the layer-1 of Bitcoin, which does few things but extremely well, but to allow the development of layer-2 that can do them with the same level of security.

然而，解決方案不是扭曲比特幣的第 1 層（它做的事情很少但非常好），而是允許開發可以以相同安全等級完成這些任務的第 2 層。

The Great Script Restoration aims to provide developers with a more versatile toolkit that allows them a wide range of new functionalities.

Great Script Restoration 旨在為開發人員提供更通用的工具包，使他們能夠獲得廣泛的新功能。

The problem is that when talking about Bitcoin, it is always very difficult to obtain a broad consensus for protocol changes. Therefore, it will not be easy at all to pass the idea that the Great Script

問題在於，在談論比特幣時，總是很難就協議變更達成廣泛共識。所以，要傳《大書》這個想法，絕非易事。