LNURL

LNURL is a family of HTTP protocols that let a Lightning wallet talk to a service without embedding a full BOLT 11 invoice in every QR code. A Bech32 string starting with lnurl1 decodes to an HTTPS (or onion) endpoint. The wallet GETs that endpoint, receives JSON, and then pays an invoice, withdraws, authenticates, or requests a channel. The documents are LNURL specifications (LUDs), not BIPs. Lightning address (LUD-16) is a human-readable alias for LNURL-pay.

See also

• Lightning address
• Lightning Network

External links

• https://github.com/lnurl/luds — LNURL specifications (LUDs)
• https://github.com/lnurl/luds/blob/luds/06.md — LUD-06: pay request