clplug: Create Core Lightning Plugins

Core Lightning Plug

Core lightning is a daemon (lightningd) that operates payment channels that allow you to send and receive bitcoin nearly instantly, with nearly zero fees with a high level of privacy. It does not compromise on any of the strengths of layer 1 bitcoin: no censorship, free speech, individual sovereignty, and impossible debasement. In fact it strengthens bitcoin because it encourages the operation of fully validating nodes, lightningd requires bitcoind. Clplug is a Haskell library that allows you to easily create extensions (called plugins) that extend or augment its functionality.

To create a plugin you only need to define three arguments:

• Manifest :: Value - configuration of the interface with core lightning.
• PluginInit :: PlugInfo -> IO a - startup function that returns the starting state
• PluginApp :: (Maybe Id, Method, Params) -> PluginMonad - data handler function

The transformer stack contains:

• ask - a handle to lightning-rpc and environment info.
• get/put - polymorphic state
• yield - stdout to core lightning

The main exports from the Library are Control.Plugin, Control.Client, and Data.Lightning. An upload and link to hackage is pending. This is a basic usage example:

{-# LANGUAGE 
      OverloadedStrings 
    , FlexibleContexts 
    , ViewPatterns
    , RecordWildCards
#-} 

module Main (main) where

-- from clplug
import Data.Lightning 
import Control.Plugin  
import Control.Conduit
--

import Data.Conduit 
import Data.Aeson
import Data.Text

main = plugin manifest appState app

manifest :: Value 
manifest = object [
      "dynamic" .= True
    , "subscriptions" .= (["channel_opened"] :: [Text] ) 
    , "options" .= ([]::[Option])
    , "rpcmethods" .= ([]) 
    , "hooks" .= ([]::[Hook])
    , "featurebits" .= object [ ]
    , "notifications" .= ([]::[Notification])
    ] 

app :: PluginApp () 
app (Nothing, "channel_opened", fromJSON -> Success (ChannelOpened {..})) = do
    doublespend funding_txid 
    where doublespend _ = pure ()

appState = pure () 

Useful areas of exploration and research are:

• fee optimization
• route selection
• economic rebalancing
• accidental channel closes

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