Exchanges with support for bitcoin Lightning network ⚡ payments
4 min readJul 9, 2019
[Updated: 28 May 2024]
Caution: Some altcoin exchanges include a cryptocurrency with the symbol “LBTC” for “Lightning Bitcoin”. That LBTC is NOT the same as bitcoin on Lightning network ⚡. That currency symbol is for a small value altcoin that has no relation to the bitcoin Lightning network ⚡. There is another currency symbol that may be similar, L-BTC, and that too is unrelated to bitcoin on Lightning network ⚡. The L-BTC symbol is used by exchanges which support bitcoin on Blockstream’s Liquid Network (🌊), which has its own list of exchanges and swap methods.
Exchanges where you can buy and/or sell bitcoin using Lightning network ⚡
- Bitfinex (⚡) [NO KYC] ← Also supports Liquid network (🌊)
- Kraken (⚡) ← Announcement
- River Financial (⚡) [DCA]
- Bull Bitcoin (⚡) [DCA] ← Canada, Announcement. Also supports Liquid network (🌊)
- Strike (⚡) [DCA] ← Announcement
- Cash App (⚡) ← U.S. and UK, Article
- Azte.co (⚡) ← Announcement
- @BitcoinVoucherBot [DCA] through Azte.co (⚡)
- OKCoin (⚡) ← Announcement
- OKEx (⚡) ← Announcement
- CoinCorner (⚡) [DCA] ← Announcement
- Bitonic (⚡) ← Announcement of pilot
- Bitbargain (⚡)
- Mt. Pelerin (⚡) ← Announcement
- HolyTransaction (⚡) ← Also supports Liquid network (🌊)
- PrimeBit (⚡) ← Details
- SimpleFX (⚡) ← Details
- Bitaroo (⚡) [DCA] ← Australia
- BitNob (⚡) [DCA] ← Announcement
- Vaultoro (⚡)
- BitcoinVN (⚡) ← Vietnam
- VBTC (⚡) ← Vietnam, Announcement, Press
- Buda (⚡)
- NiceHash Exchange (⚡)
- Breez (⚡) ← Announcement
- Bipa (⚡) [DCA] ← Brazil
- SouthXchange (⚡) ← Argentina
- Belo (⚡) ←Argentina
- IBEX Mercado (⚡) ← Guatemala
- Osmo Wallet (⚡) [En Espanol] ← Guatemala
- Landifa — Bitcoin Trade Namibia (⚡)
- Graaf One (⚡) ← Canada
- SimpleFX (⚡)
- BitSTAMP (⚡) ← Cash out through Zebedee
- xSats, when operations resume, is planning on LN (⚡) support
P2P Trading Platforms with support for Lightning network ⚡
- RoboSats (💵, ⚡ only) [NO KYC]← Non-custodial. Requires Tor browser. Guide
- HodlHodl (💵, ⚡) [NO KYC] ← Non-custodial. Not available in the U.S. [Lightning network ⚡is implemented simply as a payment method allowed for buying or selling bitcoin, as is Liquid network (🌊)]
- Noones (⚡) [KYC]
- Additional P2P Trading Platforms might not explicitly allow bitcoin on Lightning network ⚡ as a payment method, but might have an “Other” payment method that is a catchall in which the details of the payment method are located in the details of the trade offer.
Crypto-to-crypto methods
- Coinos (⚡) [NO KYC] ← Also supports swap to/from Liquid network (🌊)
- FixedFloat.com (⚡) [NO KYC] ← Not available in the U.S.
- Boltz (⚡) [NO KYC, Atomic Swap]
- SideShift AI (⚡) [NO KYC] ← Also supports swap to/from Liquid network (🌊). Not available in the U.S.
- Flyp.me (⚡) [NO KYC] ← Uses “LNX” as currency symbol for bitcoin on LN. Also supports swap to/from Liquid network (🌊)
- Coin Swap (⚡) [NO KYC] ← LN BTC to/from on-chain BTC, LTC, Dash, or XMR
- SecureShift.io (⚡) [NO KYC] ← High minimum trade amount when swapping from Lightning Network, and swap to Lightning Network not supported
- Wallet of Satoshi (⚡) [NO KYC] ← Built-in onchain/offchain exchange, not available in the U.S.
- Lightning Loop client (⚡) [NO KYC]
- Submarine Swaps (⚡) [NO KYC] ←LN BTC to/from on-chain BTC or LTC
- BitRefill (⚡) [NO KYC]
- Marduk.exchange (⚡) [NO KYC, Atomic Swap] ← LN BTC to/from RBTC, SOV, or xUSD
- LNSwap (⚡) [NO KYC, Atomic Swap] ← LN BTC to/from STX, or USDA
- CoinPlaza (⚡)
- For buying or selling bitcoin on HodlHodl, BTC is supported as the base currency and Lighting network ⚡ as the payment method.
- Paxful permits you to convert from either USDT or ETH to BTC, and then you can withdraw that BTC on Lightining network ⚡. And vice-versa, deposit BTC on LN ⚡ and then convert to ETH or USDT.
Precious Metals
Trading / Investment
- Loft (⚡) ← Invest inStocks using Lightning network ⚡
- LNMarkets (⚡) ← Not available from the U.S.
- BitMEX Research does operate a Lighting Network (⚡) node, however the BitMEX trading platform does not yet support LN deposits or withdrawals
Debit Cards Funded Using Lightning Network
- Moon (⚡) ← Browser plugin
- LastBit Cards (⚡) ← Not available in the U.S.
- Spendl (⚡) ←Browser extension (Chrome)
Retail and e-Commerce Payments
- BitRefill (⚡) [NO KYC]
- Flexa (⚡) Announcement
- Bitcoin Suisse (⚡) Announcement
Payroll
Lightning Network Wallets
- Lopp’s Lightning Network Resources: Mobile Wallets (⚡)
- Rusnak: Comparison of 5 Lightning Network Wallets (⚡)
Related
- Lightning Exchanges ← List from David Coen
- Lightning Payment Processors and Gateways
- Are multicoin exchanges attacks on Bitcoin scaling?
- Lightning Wiki
- Lopp’s Lightning Network Resources
See Also
- KYC-Free-Instant-Exchanges ← Superset of the listings in the “crypto-to-crypto” section above
- P2P Trading Platforms
- Physical Stores where you can Buy or Sell bitcoin
Additions, corrections, and other feedback welcome and can be submitted as an issue or pull request on GitHub, or via e-mail.
