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Lightning Gossip Protocol

lightning.gossip-protocol

How channel and node announcements propagate network topology and routing policy updates.

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Curated resources (3)

• BOLT 07: Routing Gossip (article) Canonical specification for gossip messages and update semantics.
• BOLT 02: Peer Protocol (article) Peer state machine and channel message flow dependencies.
• Mastering the Lightning Network (book) Technical background for graph announcements, routing policy propagation, and node-level networking behavior.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Bitcoin P2P Message Flow
• Lightning Routing

Direct dependents (2)

• Lightning DNS Seeds
• Lightning Feature Flags

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