Blixzt

TLDR:

Blixzt is a light GUI client to be used with a private, fully validating LND lightning node.

Setup

Blixzt uses Cocoapods for dependencies:

1. sudo gem install cocoapods
2. pod install
3. open the project using the .xcworkspace file

Secrets

To use this app, it needs to be able to talk to your LND process.

To do this, 3 things are needed:

• hostname: {ip|dns}:port, e.g. 1.2.3.4:10009 or mynode.lightning.org:10009

• Certificate from your node, signed with the address you are connecting via.

  • lnd option --tlsextraip=[externalIP] could be useful here.

• The security token, called macaroon.

To load these into the app, the easiest is to generate a qr code from them and take a photo with your phone. This way the secrets never leave your devices.

Example using qrencode to generate images:

qrencode -o macaroon.png $(base64 -i ~/.lnd/admin.macaroon | tr -d '\n')
qrencode -o cert.png ~/.lnd/tls.cert

Go to settings in the app and take a photo of them.

Try go to the homescreen and check if your balance shows.

Fastlane

Use fastlane for building and testing: sudo gem install fastlane -NV fastlane test