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Lightning Onion Routing

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Packet format and forwarding privacy model for multi-hop Lightning payments.

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Curated resources (4)

• BOLT 04: Onion Routing Protocol (article) Canonical Lightning onion packet behavior.
• BOLT 07: Gossip Protocol (article) Routing information distribution layer.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Route Blinding (article) Privacy-preserving routing patterns related to onion message paths.
• Mastering the Lightning Network (book) Useful technical background for Sphinx packets, forwarding privacy, and routing tradeoffs.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Lightning Routing

Direct dependents (2)

• Lightning Route Blinding
• Lightning Trampoline Routing

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