Getting started with Greenlight
summary
Greenlight is a non-custodial cloud for Core Lightning that keeps signing keys on the user device via a VLS signer and a signer-proxy, while the backend runs Core Lightning, a Watchtower, and a scheduler. Nodes are on-demand nodes that power up via TLS device certificates issued from developer partner certs; workshop demo shows generating a BIP39 seed, registering with the scheduler, saving device.crt/device.key, scheduling the node and calling Core Lightning gRPC getinfo. Development uses a Rust client, Python SDK, GL-testing Docker environment, and Breeze SDK for mobile.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Greenlight and Lightning Network
- 3:12What is Greenlight
- 8:14Greenlight architecture
- 11:47VLS signer role
- 14:34Greenlight SDKs
- 18:26Future work
- 22:57Workshop setup
- 27:56Live demo walkthrough
- 30:01Q&A
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