Wumbo Lightning Network Explorer

Completed: 2023

I used: nextjs, tailwindcss, chatgpt for coding, apex charts, FastAPI, redis, Python Polars (Dataframes), Postgresql, docker, LND API (lightning network)

See it live at wumbo.top!

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Wumbo lets you explore the Bitcoin Lightning network using various tags to filter and sort nodes. It includes visualizations and metrics that help understand the topology of the network in interesting ways.

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The app underwent three fundamental rewrites to make it blazingly-fast! At the time, there were nearly 50k lightning channels and about 20k nodes that all had to be indexed and searched as efficiently as possible.


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