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 287 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,171 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 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 160,431 followers as of August 2026 and has published 10,787 posts. It has been mentioned by 1,068 accounts a total of 3,736 times.
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The accounts that follow Lightning Labs include 1,289 founders, 274 angel investors, 537 influencers and 47 VCs, among them Erik Voorhees, jesse.base.eth, Toly, Laura Shin, Michael Saylor and Kyle Samani.