From Argentina, Lemon Cash announced that embed the Lightning Network into your app, explaining that it was something highly requested by users in recent times. This was reported to Cointelegraph en Español through a statement.
It should be noted that this network reached its historical maximum of transactions globally, increasing from 100,000 at the beginning of last year to 500,000 today.
“Introducing the Lightning Network to more than a million users is a big step towards our main goal: to make cryptocurrencies accessible and easier to use in Latin America.“, explained Borja Martel Seward, co-founder of Lemon.
In conjunction with OpenNode technology, users will be able to make Bitcoin transfers through the Lightning Network to and from their walletstaking advantage of the low cost and speed of this network.
“We are proud to support Lemon’s mission, its desire to scale and benefit its customers and continue to grow the Bitcoin economy in Latin America.”, stated Josh Held, director of strategy at OpenNode.
This still experimental second-layer network, comes to facilitate the use of Bitcoin as a form of daily payments. Among its benefits, it allows to increase the flow of transactions without congesting the main networkinstant payments, lower costs and greater privacy.
Recently, from Lightning Labs they have reported that they are developing the implementation of stablecoins In the net.
“To make transfers even simpler, with the implementation of the Lightning Network we also redesigned the cryptocurrency deposit flow in the app with more information about the networks for users Martin Seward continued.
This is what the app would look like with the new Lightning Network addition
In addition, to promote the adoption of this new network that is added to the app, Lemon reported that Lightning Network transfers will be discounted during the first month to all users.
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