Kraken – the famous crypto exchange – has incorporated Lightning Network to offer the consumers rapid settlement of BTC (Bitcoin) transfers in an endeavour to assist in the utilization of the primary crypto asset for exchange purposes. The Lightning Network counts to be a scalability solution based on layer-2 constructed on the Bitcoin blockchain’s top and permits the consumers to swiftly receive and send Bitcoin with costing no charges.
Apart from allowing for economic and rapid withdrawals and deposits, Kraken is offering chief network services to permit the Lightning network to track payments, as told by a spokesperson from the company. The spokesperson mentioned that they expect that their integration indicates that the digital asset industry would grow further with the Lightning network support.
The network can perform several million transfers within a fraction of a second, in comparison with the processing of Visa which is limited to just 65,000 transfers in a second, as per the firm. A blog post of 1st April mentions that no intermediate transfers are published by the payment channels system to the blockchain when operating, keeping them off-chain to permit for efficient and rapid value transactions.
The respective off-chain channels continue to be protected by the multi-signature as well as time locking services of the Bitcoin blockchain. The Bitcoin product manager at Kraken – Pierre Rochard – disclosed that BTC has turned out to be an efficient store of value during the previous decade and is presently witnessing an enhanced utilization being a global currency across the globe.
Bitcoin payments’ real-time settlement, large-scale macro transactions, as well as bigger capacity in contrast with the rest of the systems, are the services offered by the Lightning Network. The integration is witnessed following the declaration on the behalf of Kraken in 2020’s December to expectedly permit the consumers to deposit and withdraw BTC on Lightning Network in 2021’s initial half.
Unstoppable Domains’ CEO and founder – Matthew Gould – revealed that the usability has a considerable contribution from layer-solutions in its advancement, providing convenience for the mainstream community to embrace digital currencies and perform transactions with them.
Another role of the Lightning Network is related to the scaling of Bitcoin, which is a huge trial for the network. The founder of Presearch (a decentralized search portal), Colin Pape, expressed to be hopeful for the integration of Kraken as the Lightning Network’s validity’s proof point, as Bitcoin’s success is the entire digital asset world’s success.
