Nice build! Always good to see explorers running their own hardware.
If you ever want to extend the 'tools' side into Lightning, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit. We've been collecting LN network data for a security research project and the live numbers are more dramatic than most on-chain metrics:
~32,500 public channels / ~3,754 BTC capacity, down 32% in channel count over 24 months
slot-jamming Binance's node costs about 4,920 sats in flight and paralyzes ~7.4M sats of forwarding capacity (a 7,400,000x leverage ratio for the attacker)
LNBiG lost 73 channels / 34.5 BTC in the last 30 days
7.9% of ~4,000 nodes we profiled set inbound fees, and every single rate is negative (median -498.5 ppm) — it works as a liquidity subsidy, not an anti-jamming mechanism
All of this comes from free sources (live gossip, Amboss GraphQL, node policy snapshots) — no paid data feeds needed. Happy to share the pipeline if you ever want an 'LN gauges' section.
Nice build! Always good to see explorers running their own hardware.
If you ever want to extend the 'tools' side into Lightning, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit. We've been collecting LN network data for a security research project and the live numbers are more dramatic than most on-chain metrics:
All of this comes from free sources (live gossip, Amboss GraphQL, node policy snapshots) — no paid data feeds needed. Happy to share the pipeline if you ever want an 'LN gauges' section.