README.md

# Palladium Lightning

Palladium Lightning is the standard compliant implementation of the Lightning Network protocol for **Palladium**, a fork of Bitcoin.

This repository is an independent professional fork of [Core Lightning (CLN)](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning), maintained by Davide Grilli.

## Fork Information

The Palladium Lightning fork officially begins from the following upstream Core Lightning commit:
**`823a575d9a70ed7f2cb08be462c09a399a4a2842`**

For the original Core Lightning documentation, please refer to [`README-original.md`](README-original.md).

## Getting Started

Palladium Lightning aims to be lightweight, highly customizable, and fully compliant with the Lightning Network protocol adapted for the Palladium network.

### Building from Source

To compile the source code, please refer to the updated instructions or refer to the original installation documentation available in `doc/getting-started/getting-started/installation.md`.

## Testing

For instructions on how to test Palladium Lightning against a local Palladium Regtest network, please refer to the dedicated guide: **[TESTING_PALLADIUM.md](TESTING_PALLADIUM.md)**.

## License

The code is released under the BSD-MIT License. See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for more details.
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`# Palladium Lightning`
Actually commit the README.md. Oops. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 2015-06-24 16:18:07 +09:30
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`Palladium Lightning is the standard compliant implementation of the Lightning Network protocol for Palladium, a fork of Bitcoin.`
Actually commit the README.md. Oops. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 2015-06-24 16:18:07 +09:30
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`This repository is an independent professional fork of [Core Lightning (CLN)](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning), maintained by Davide Grilli.`
add readme badge 2018-02-03 14:21:08 +01:00
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`## Fork Information`
doc: Updating README and related documentation Like many I don't read any documentation besides the readme in the repo, so I thought I could just pull some simple getting started info into the readme to make it easy for people to get started :-) 2017-05-09 15:33:42 +02:00
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`The Palladium Lightning fork officially begins from the following upstream Core Lightning commit:`
			`823a575d9a70ed7f2cb08be462c09a399a4a2842`
Reflow README.md with no changes to text Can be tested by calling a following script #!/bin/sh FILE=${1:-"CONTRIBUTING.md"} CUR_BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) { git checkout $CUR_BRANCH commonmarker $FILE \| tidy > /tmp/aoeui.html git checkout master >/dev/null commonmarker $FILE \| tidy \| diff -u - /tmp/aoeui.html git checkout $CUR_BRANCH } 2>/dev/null Formatted according to suggestion by @ZmnSCPxj described in https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/1137 2018-01-29 16:25:43 +01:00
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			For the original Core Lightning documentation, please refer to [`README-original.md`](README-original.md).
doc: Updating README and related documentation Like many I don't read any documentation besides the readme in the repo, so I thought I could just pull some simple getting started info into the readme to make it easy for people to get started :-) 2017-05-09 15:33:42 +02:00
			`## Getting Started`

docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`Palladium Lightning aims to be lightweight, highly customizable, and fully compliant with the Lightning Network protocol adapted for the Palladium network.`
README: move hsm_secret encryption infos into a dedicated part And tell about decryption/encryption with hsmtool 2019-10-22 12:40:48 +02:00
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`### Building from Source`
README: move hsm_secret encryption infos into a dedicated part And tell about decryption/encryption with hsmtool 2019-10-22 12:40:48 +02:00
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			To compile the source code, please refer to the updated instructions or refer to the original installation documentation available in `doc/getting-started/getting-started/installation.md`.
doc: Updating README and related documentation Like many I don't read any documentation besides the readme in the repo, so I thought I could just pull some simple getting started info into the readme to make it easy for people to get started :-) 2017-05-09 15:33:42 +02:00
Add Palladium testing infrastructure and local regtest setup This commit finalizes the integration of Palladium Lightning with the Palladium Core backend, making it trivial for developers to spin up and test a local regtest network. Key changes: - Created [TESTING_PALLADIUM.md](cci:7://file:///home/davide/lightning-plm/TESTING_PALLADIUM.md:0:0-0:0) with comprehensive regtest instructions. - Linked the new testing guide in the main [README.md](cci:7://file:///home/davide/lightning-plm/README.md:0:0-0:0). - Ignored `/palladium-bin/` in `.gitignore` to allow developers to drop backend binaries locally without accidentally committing them. - Patched `contrib/startup_regtest.sh` to automatically detect and use these local `palladiumd`/`palladium-cli` binaries if present, removing the strict need to manually export environment variables. - Fixed a false-positive timeout error in `startup_regtest.sh` when parsing the absent `clnrest` plugin logs 2026-02-20 14:10:53 +01:00			`## Testing`

			`For instructions on how to test Palladium Lightning against a local Palladium Regtest network, please refer to the dedicated guide: [TESTING_PALLADIUM.md](TESTING_PALLADIUM.md).`

docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`## License`
README.md: Note Elements requirement. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 2015-07-03 14:03:45 +09:30
docs: Relocate original README content and update project documentation, security, and licensing files 2026-02-20 12:04:34 +01:00			`The code is released under the BSD-MIT License. See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for more details.`