BOLT12 Offers specification merged
BOLT12 Offers reaches a key specification milestone in the Lightning Network standards repository.
On September 24, 2024, BOLT12 Offers specification merged. BOLT12 Offers reaches a key specification milestone in the Lightning Network standards repository.
BOLT12 Offers introduced reusable payment offers with privacy and flexibility improvements over traditional BOLT11 invoices. Merging the specification marked standardization work; implementation and adoption still depended on individual Lightning projects.
It adds to the 2024 history of Lightning as both a payments network and a security-sensitive layer whose standards, implementations and exchange integrations continued to mature.