Easily and Securely Automate your Lightning Node

Your Keys, Your coins, Your Node
Private, Automated, Optimised for Yield

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Operating a Lightning Node is Hard

We make it easy without sacrificing privacy, security, or self-custody.

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Automated Liquidity Management

Automatically open channels with ease, and never worry about manually balancing channels again. Birkeland connects you with reliable, liquid, and well-connected nodes to be able to optimise your liquidity management.

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Tor No More

Privately coordinate and securely communicate with peers using a VPN to handle node networking and communications. Run your lightning node over the clearnet without worrying about Tor issues ever again.

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Node and Peer Analytics Over Time

Gain insight over both your node’s past performance as well as your peers. Review your transaction history enabling you to make better decisions in the future.

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Node First Aid

Monitor your node’s uptime and reliability with our automated health-check services. Get alerts when your node is not responsive, and address any issues as soon as they arise.

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Connect with the Best

Utilize publicly available lightning network data to optimise your node for reliability, liquidity, and connectedness.

Ensure maximal reliability and connectedness for your node at the click of a button.

Analyze peer data with eigenvector centrality metrics to maximize your node's centrality and route payments in underserved areas of the lightning network.

Capitalize on Opportunities in the Lightning Network

Birkeland detects liquidity asymmetries and enables your node to automatically reroute liquidity for maximal impact.

Automatically and securely open channels with undererved nodes that have high payment potential.

Provide liquidity, route payments, and balance channels all based on policy you decide upon.

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Pick out your Package

Empower your node with the security and reliability that the lightning network should deliver.

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Hobbyist

See how easy it is to run a node and interoperate with the lightning network. Perfect for experimentation and using small amounts of Bitcoin.

$0/mo

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Easily and securely operate a node

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Connect to your node via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Uncle Jim

Connect your community to lightning without the headache of manually managing a node. Perfect for running self-sovereign infrastructure.

$10/mo

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Easily and intuitively automate up to 5 nodes

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Connect to your nodes via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Monitor data on your node and your peers

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Automatically and securely manage your liquidity and channel balances

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Lightning Service Provider

Utilize an enterprise-grade node to earn safe self-custodial yield on your Bitcoin. Perfect for large Bitcoin holders looking for yield.

$200/mo

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Easily and intuitively automate unlimited nodes

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Connect to your nodes via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Monitor data on your node and your peers throughout the network

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Automatically and securely manage your liquidity and channel balances

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Automatically and securely reroute liquidity to underserved nodes

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Dynamically adjust fees for optimised yield on your Bitcoin

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Hobbyist

See how easy it is to run a node and interoperate with the lightning network. Perfect for experimentation and using small amounts of Bitcoin.

$0/mo

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Easily and securely operate a node

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Connect to your node via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Uncle Jim

Connect your community to lightning without the headache of manually managing a node. Perfect for running self-sovereign infrastructure.

$8/mo

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Easily and intuitively automate up to 5 nodes

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Connect to your nodes via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Monitor data on your node and your peers

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Automatically and securely manage your liquidity and channel balances

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Lightning Service Provider

Utilize an enterprise-grade node to earn safe self-custodial yield on your Bitcoin. Perfect for large Bitcoin holders looking for yield.

$180/mo

what's included...

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Easily and intuitively automate unlimited nodes

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Connect to your nodes via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Monitor data on your node and your peers throughout the network

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Automatically and securely manage your liquidity and channel balances

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Automatically and securely reroute liquidity to underserved nodes

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Dynamically adjust fees for optimised yield on your Bitcoin

Birkeland APIs

Build Your Own Bitcoin Lightining Apps Using Birkeland APIs

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Hobbyist

See how easy it is to integrate lighting into your application. Perfect for development and testing.

$0/mo

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Access to all Birkeland APIs

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Birkeland APIs running on shared public server

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Uncle Jim

All features of Hobbyist package plus dedicated Birkeland server.

$200/mo

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Access to all Birkeland APIs

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Birkeland APIs running on dedicated Birkeland server

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5 hours of dev support every month

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VIP access to Birkeland workshops

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Enterprise

Runs on dedicated customised Birkeland server.

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Access to all Birkeland APIs

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Birkeland APIs running on customised Birkeland server

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15 hours of dev support every month

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VIP access to Birkeland workshops

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Hobbyist

See how easy it is to run a node and interoperate with the lightning network. Perfect for experimentation and using small amounts of Bitcoin.

$0/mo

what's included...

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Easily and securely operate a node

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Connect to your node via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Uncle Jim

Connect your community to lightning without the headache of manually managing a node. Perfect for running self-sovereign infrastructure.

$8/mo

what's included...

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Easily and intuitively automate up to 5 nodes

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Connect to your nodes via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Monitor data on your node and your peers

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Automatically and securely manage your liquidity and channel balances

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Lightning Service Provider

Utilize an enterprise-grade node to earn safe self-custodial yield on your Bitcoin. Perfect for large Bitcoin holders looking for yield.

$180/mo

what's included...

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Easily and intuitively automate unlimited nodes

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Connect to your nodes via VPN and monitor it from anywhere over clearnet

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Monitor data on your node and your peers throughout the network

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Automatically and securely manage your liquidity and channel balances

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Automatically and securely reroute liquidity to underserved nodes

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Dynamically adjust fees for optimised yield on your Bitcoin

Meet the Team

james pierog

Co-Founder & CEO

A mathematician and cryptographer by training, James first found Bitcoin through mining in 2012. Since graduating from Yale-NUS with a degree in mathematical, computational, and statistical sciences, he has committed himself to working in the Bitcoin space.

Ruban Sundara Raj

Co-Founder & CTO

A software engineer and technologist for many years, Ruban graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Masters in Smart Product Design. Ruban has over 7 years of experience in DevOps, full-stack software engineering, and R&D with two patents under his name.

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