Chaincode is proud to announce a Lightning applications residency program, taking place in New York, Oct 22–26 2018! We’ve already hosted two residency programs, in 2016 and 2018. Those were focused on the Bitcoin protocol and contributing to Bitcoin Core. This time we’re going to try something a bit different.

The Lightning network is maturing every day and we’re beginning to see great applications like satoshis.place and yalls.org being built on top of it. There’s a huge amount of excitement growing around Lightning applications, but knowledge of how to build those applications is currently scarce and diffuse.

We want to help bootstrap the emerging Lightning applications developer ecosystem, so we’re hosting a week-long residency specifically for Lightning application developers (as opposed to Lightning protocol developers), organised by us, with mentoring and speaking by experts in the Lightning applications space.

Residency 2018

We’ve got a stellar line-up of guest speakers:

We’re looking for experienced applications developers, perhaps with a background in web apps or Ethereum apps, who want to learn about integrating Lightning payments into applications. No experience of the Bitcoin or Lightning protocols are required.

The residency will be project-based, and applicants will build a prototype application over the course of the week. Residents will have a chance to present their work on Friday afternoon.

All guest speaker talks and presentations will be video recorded and made freely available. We want to scale the benefits of this residency to engineers who aren’t able to join us in person.

We’re really excited about this new residency and are looking forward to some excellent talks and amazing new Lightning applications