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At Voltage, we're always listening to customers to create the most powerful Lightning experience. While raw LND nodes offer power and flexibility, Voltage goes further – streamlining integration, simplifying compliance, and delivering a full-service experience beyond just Lightning. The APIs are complex, and critical payment features like webhooks, wallet-level accounting, and streamlined UX just aren’t there. We knew we could make this better.
Today, we’re excited to announce Node-Backed Wallets: a powerful new capability that brings nearly all of the benefits of our Lightning Payments platform to customers running their own LND node on Voltage.
Why This Matters
Until now, if you were running your own LND node, getting a polished, production-ready payments experience meant building a lot yourself—APIs, compliance workflows, wallet separation, and event handling.
Node-Backed Wallets change that. Now, you can run your own node and still tap into the benefits of the Voltage Payments experience, including:
- Built-in compliance tools that streamline onboarding and risk management.
- Simple send/receive APIs for sending sats or requesting payments
- Wallet and account segregation so each user or business entity stays isolated
- Powerful webhook support for real-time transaction notifications
- Developer-friendly abstractions that eliminate the need for low-level node wrangling
You get the power and autonomy of your own infrastructure, with the simplicity of a modern payments stack—no compromise required.
The Developer Problem
LND offers a powerful and flexible API surface—ideal for those who want to build deeply.
But with that flexibility comes complexity, especially when layering on the business logic needed for real-world apps. Many teams start there and realize they’re spending more time managing infrastructure than delivering product.
That’s where Voltage comes in: we streamline the hard parts so you can get to market faster, without giving up control.
Our Solution: Node-Backed Wallets
With this new upgrade, you can:
- Connect your LND node on Voltage to the Payments interface
- Get clean, abstracted APIs for Lightning transactions
- Use webhooks, wallet segregation, and other powerful features
- Retain self-custody over your node
- Enterprise ready compliance solutions
In other words, you keep full control of your infrastructure, while we take on the complexity of building production-ready payment rails.
Key Benefits
- We handle compliance — reducing the complexity of identifying and managing risk.
- We absorb the technical debt — freeing you from managing or maintaining extra tooling
- Wallet segregation built-in — critical for large-scale use cases like neobanks, BTMs, and exchanges
- Self-custodial with scalability — no compromise on control
Node-Backed Wallets give you the same seamless experience you’d expect from a full Voltage Payments integration, with the autonomy and sovereignty of your own node.
Designed for Developers
We’re aiming to make Lightning development simple, not harder. Our goal is to let any business onboard to Voltage as swiftly as they desire, and with Node-Backed Wallets, that milestone is even easier to hit.
With just a few API endpoints, you can ship global, instant Bitcoin payments. No more wrestling with dozens of raw LND commands or patching together your own webhook system.
Try It Now
If you’re already running a node on Voltage, you can connect it to the Payments platform and get started today. Full documentation is available here and our team is standing by to help you integrate.
The Lightning Network just got a whole lot easier to build on,and it’s still 100% Bitcoin-native.
Let’s build the future of payments. Together. Get a strategy session or speak to sales today.
