Stateless invoices
Stateless invoices are LN invoices whose payment preimage is generated deterministically from payment metadata. This allows the receiver of a payment to avoid storing any data about the invoice until the spender submits a copy of the metadata along with the payment.
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2022
- 2022 year-in-review: stateless invoices
- LND #5810 implements sending support for payment metadata
- Core Lightning #5068 adds payer-side support for stateless invoices
- LDK #1199 uses stateless invoices to allow phantom node payments
- Eclair #2063 adds support for the new option_payment_metadata invoice field
- BOLTs #912 adds a new optional field to BOLT11 invoices to enable stateless payments
- Rust-Lightning #1177 implements stateless payments using the payment secret field
2021
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