lightning-invoice
v0.34.1 GrowingData structures to parse and serialize BOLT11 lightning invoices
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 25d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (2.4K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (3 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
132.5K downloads in the last 30 days (4.4K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
2.4K crates depend on lightning-invoice. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 7+ years old, lightning-invoice hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 49KB, lightning-invoice is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include lightning, lightning-background-processor, lightning-liquidity, lnurl-rs, ldk-node. When high-quality crates choose lightning-invoice, it's a strong quality signal.
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