Lightning Labs is a Bitcoin Lightning Network infrastructure company that develops software powering the Lightning Network and offers verifiable, non-custodial Lightning-based financial services. Lightning Labs's Twitter Score is 282 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #1,212 (top 0.5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Lightning Labs was co-founded by Elizabeth Stark as CEO and co-founder, and Olaoluwa Osuntokun as CTO and co-founder. Its product stack includes Taproot Assets, Pool, Loop, Lightning Network Daemon, Neutrino, and Lightning Terminal, covering the full range of Lightning Network infrastructure from node management to asset issuance. Lightning Labs has also announced open-source Lightning agent tools enabling AI agents to operate natively on the Lightning Network.
Lightning Labs raised a $70 million Series B funding round to develop Taro, now rebranded as Taproot Assets. Backers include Valor Equity Partners, Baillie Gifford, Brevan Howard, NYDIG, and Vlad Tenev. Lightning Labs is affiliated with Tether, which is bringing USDT to Bitcoin with both on-chain and Lightning Network support powered by Taproot Assets. Lightning Labs's account has 160,291 followers as of October 2026 and has published 10,771 posts. It has been mentioned by 1,077 accounts a total of 3,758 times.
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The accounts that follow Lightning Labs include 1,303 founders, 273 angel investors, 534 influencers and 47 VCs, among them jesse.base.eth, Toly, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Michael Saylor and Kyle Samani.