Nayuta Introduces Android Mobile Wallet with Lightning Network Support

Japanese startup Nayuta has released a mobile wallet for Android with Lightning Network support and a built-in full nodeBitcoin

The new application gives users the opportunityconnecting to the Lightning Network in one of two ways: using the built-in full Bitcoin node for added security or through the version of the SPV node (Neutrino), which is not so secure, but takes up much less space.

“Using a full host is the onlythe real way to find out if you got a BTC. If you don’t use the full node, you are always forced to trust the wallet operator node or the miners, ”said Christian Moss, mobile application developer at Nayuta.

The application uses fork ABCore,which makes it easy to launch the full site on Android devices. Creating a full-fledged site that is easy to launch has long been the main goal for many Bitcoin developers.

“For everyday use, it is definitely more convenient and practical to use a wallet without a full node. However, it is important to have access to the full host in cases where the network has been attacked, ”Moss said.

In addition to what users canchoose either a full node or an SPV node that runs in the background, there is a third “hybrid” mode that allows the wallet to automatically switch between them.

“In hybrid mode during the day when youuse a mobile network to access the Internet, the blocks come from Neutrino, and at night, when your phone is charging and connected to Wi-Fi, a full Bitcoin node is launched, which the blocks will check, ”said Kenichi Kurimoto, Nayuta CEO.

Moss is confident that over time it will be easier to run the full Bitcoin node on a mobile device. He said:

“Although the current implementation of Lightning’s wallet withA full node is not so user-friendly, we believe that research and development in this direction is an elementary task for Bitcoin developers. In the future, when smartphones become more powerful, launching a full Bitcoin node on a mobile device will become as simple as launching a lightweight client wallet today. ”

More and more companies are releasing wallets withLightning Network support. In October, such a wallet was presented by the startup ACINQ, and in the summer, a mobile wallet for iPhone with Lightning Network support was released by the startup Breez.

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