Validating Lightning Signer

"VLS allowed Greenlight to be developed at breakneck speed, without the risk. It is the fundamental building block, and central to the non-custodial nature of Greenlight." @Snyke

Regulatory headaches multiply the moment you hold customer funds. Use VLS, avoid custody, and focus that legal budget on shipping features instead of filling compliance binders. Sleep comes easier when the balance sheet has zero customer sats.

Lightning adoption stalls if users fear rug pulls. Don't give your users reason to doubt the safety of their sats. Validating signers turn fear into confidence.

VLS is written in Rust for safety and speed. Compile to servers, mobiles, even microcontrollers. So there's no excuse not to use it.

🫵 Yes, you. Building an LSP? Offer self-custody by default and skip the license maze. VLS makes it possible.

Blind signers say "yes boss" to every request. VLS says "prove it." Guess which one keeps the sats safe.

Until every sat on Lightning lives behind a validating signer, we have work to do. Join the movement. Audit the code, open a PR, or just test VLS in your stack. Self custody is a movement, not a marketing term.

If you handle Lightning funds, you can either 1. Explain how your custodial wallet is totally safe (source: trust me bro) OR 2. You can prove it by not holding the keys at all. VLS is the shortest, cheapest, and most convincing proof.

Sel- custody converts users into advocates. When they realize the provider literally cannot rug them, retention jumps and word of mouth kicks in. VLS turns security + self-custody into a marketing advantage you cannot get any other way.

Fail fast is great unless it applies to your users’ life savings. VLS lets you ship Lightning features at hacker speed while isolating the blast radius behind hardware boundaries. Iterate safely, iterate often.

Lightning needs bigger channels for serious commerce, but you will not park six figures in a hot wallet. VLS makes it rational: hardened signer, configurable policies, automated breach monitoring. Enterprise treasury team 🤝 VLS.

Hot wallet got you nervous? Separate the keys, add policy checks, relax. That’s VLS in a nutshell.🌰

Your Lightning node is only as strong as its signer. VLS keeps keys off-node and checks every request before it signs. Sleep easy. 🛡️

Lightning wallets love UX, enterprises love governance. VLS bridges the gap: users hold keys, ops teams get logs, compliance teams get deterministic policies. Nobody loses sleep or their sats. Alignment feels good.😎

Open source security means every line can be audited by anyone with a Git client. We invite review because hiding bugs never fixed them. VLS has lived in public repo sunshine since commit one and our threat model assumes eyeballs.

Every startup says “we’re non-custodial” until their backend grabs the user’s keys. VLS enforces true self custody: keys live in a hardened signer you never touch, and every withdrawal is validated on the way out. Your users notice the difference.

Running a Lightning node with hot keys is like driving a race car without seatbelts. Validating Lightning Signer keeps keys off the node, adds 50+ policy checks, and signs only the transactions that make sense. Speed and safety can live together. 🚀🔒