I've been using Lexe for a while now and the user experience is great.
Payments are reliable and app is easy to navigate. Also it looks pretty.
In my mind Lexe is a lot like Phoenix. Super simple, mostly* self-sovereign lightning on mobile. You can receive without your phone waking up or being on.
Can someone prevent me from making a lightning payment?
No
Yes
Can I open channels with anyone I like?
Yes
No
Can I be rugged?
No
No
And so on (also sorry if I have any of the above details wrong).
So far, I really like Lexe. I would love to figure out how to connect it to SN (Perhaps SN starts supporting Bolt12 -- although that wouldn't necessarily solve spending -- or Lexe gets NWC).
Also, I somehow missed that Lexe supported BIP353. I'll have to give it a try with my Lexe address.
Zeus v0.13 will be much better and more complex with the new LDK node. And you run the node in your phone. No 3rd party server. I am testing it these days.
Lightning has always been broken in one way or another.
In the early days of Lightning, users ran nodes at home, which costed $300 in hardware, plus managing channels and liquidity. Way too expensive in terms of both time and money. Mobile wallets like Breez and Phoenix made things easier, but 'offline receive' was unreliable: payments would still fail if your phone was in power-saving mode, had bad reception, or was off the grid. Custodial wallets fixed that, but now you had to give up your keys.
@phlip9 and I got sick of all this and wanted a Lightning wallet that Just Works™ while retaining the self-sovereignty that Bitcoin is all about. After some iterating, we landed on the radical idea of running an entire Lightning node inside a hardware enclave (specifically, Intel SGX) in the cloud. The enclave isolates your node from the operators of the system - we can't read your keys. But because it's hosted, your node stays online 24/7.
This is our first ever public release, still in beta. We'd love to hear your feedback.
Can you connect it to other applications via NWC? For example, could I connect it to Castamatic to stream sats to podcasters, or connect it to ppq.ai to keep my balance of ai tokens topped up, connect it to stacker.news, or to my Nostr client for zapping posts?
Nostr Wallet Connect is in the works! We have most of it implemented, but turns out NIP-44 adoption isn't that widespread, so we need to downgrade to NIP-04 and do some testing to get it working. We've set up the relay hooks but still need to productionize / deploy our relay.
I've been using Lexe for a while now and the user experience is great.
Payments are reliable and app is easy to navigate. Also it looks pretty.
In my mind Lexe is a lot like Phoenix. Super simple, mostly* self-sovereign lightning on mobile. You can receive without your phone waking up or being on.
*mostly self-sovereign:
I have read the Lexe https://github.com/lexe-app/lexe-public/blob/master/SECURITY.md but would also find it useful to have a shorter/less formal breakdown of trust tradeoffs along the lines of a faq. Something like this:
And so on (also sorry if I have any of the above details wrong).
So far, I really like Lexe. I would love to figure out how to connect it to SN (Perhaps SN starts supporting Bolt12 -- although that wouldn't necessarily solve spending -- or Lexe gets NWC).
Also, I somehow missed that Lexe supported BIP353. I'll have to give it a try with my Lexe address.
You got it right! Accurate appraisal of Lexe. And thanks for the feedback, we could add something like that to our docs at https://docs.lexe.app
Zeus v0.13 will be much better and more complex with the new LDK node. And you run the node in your phone. No 3rd party server.
I am testing it these days.
Lightning has always been broken in one way or another.
In the early days of Lightning, users ran nodes at home, which costed $300 in hardware, plus managing channels and liquidity. Way too expensive in terms of both time and money. Mobile wallets like Breez and Phoenix made things easier, but 'offline receive' was unreliable: payments would still fail if your phone was in power-saving mode, had bad reception, or was off the grid. Custodial wallets fixed that, but now you had to give up your keys.
@phlip9 and I got sick of all this and wanted a Lightning wallet that Just Works™ while retaining the self-sovereignty that Bitcoin is all about. After some iterating, we landed on the radical idea of running an entire Lightning node inside a hardware enclave (specifically, Intel SGX) in the cloud. The enclave isolates your node from the operators of the system - we can't read your keys. But because it's hosted, your node stays online 24/7.
This is our first ever public release, still in beta. We'd love to hear your feedback.
Can you connect it to other applications via NWC? For example, could I connect it to Castamatic to stream sats to podcasters, or connect it to ppq.ai to keep my balance of ai tokens topped up, connect it to stacker.news, or to my Nostr client for zapping posts?
Nostr Wallet Connect is in the works! We have most of it implemented, but turns out NIP-44 adoption isn't that widespread, so we need to downgrade to NIP-04 and do some testing to get it working. We've set up the relay hooks but still need to productionize / deploy our relay.
I'm super excited for this.
nice, looking forward to trying that out
this?
https://github.com/lexe-app/lexe-public
Yes, that's the one.
Super cool!