<p>This is a draft answer. As always alternative answers are welcome.</p>
<p><a href="https://ln.river.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">River</a> is advertising the option to open Lightning channels with them but recommends contacting them via email before doing this.</p>
<p><a href="https://doc.breez.technology/Open-a-Channel-with-Breez-Public-Node.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Breez</a> has documentation on how to do this and has set a minimum 10 million satoshis (~$2,700) capacity. (I asked on the Breez Telegram why this minimum capacity was set and smaller channel opens were apparently causing routing failures. This seems like a problem with present day path finding algorithms as additional channels/routes are additive by definition and shouldn't increase routing failures.)</p>
<p><a href="https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/9829766858260-Connecting-to-Kraken-s-Lightning-node" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kraken</a> has a minimum 1 million satoshis (~$270) channel capacity. (Thanks Poseidon for finding this)</p>
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<p>Also any exchanges or wallets offer the option to open signet channels with them at the time of writing?</p>
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<p>I'm not aware of any. See this <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118400/can-you-help-me-get-started-running-a-signet-lightning-routing-node-with-intende">post</a> for guidance on setting up a routing node on signet.</p>

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<p><a href="https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/9829766858260-Connecting-to-Kraken-s-Lightning-node" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/9829766858260-Connecting-to-Kraken-s-Lightning-node</a>
I found this for Kraken Centralized Exchange.</p>

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<p>Which exchanges or wallets offer the option to open a channel with a Lightning routing node they operate at the time of writing (June 2023)? (I know Lightning Labs' <a href="https://lightning.engineering/pool/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pool</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/blockstream/lightnings-missing-piece-a-decentralized-liquidity-market-a0bb47534a4f" rel="nofollow noreferrer">liquidity ads</a> attempt to provide a solution to the inbound capacity problem but for now I'm just interested in outbound capacity.)</p>
<p>Of those that do are there any particular requirements (e.g. minimum channel capacity, uptime requirement)?</p>
<p>I understand that I could speculatively try Lightning nodes from <a href="https://1ml.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1ML</a> or <a href="https://amboss.space/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Amboss</a> but I'm capital and time constrained.</p>
<p>Also any exchanges or wallets offer the option to open signet channels with them at the time of writing?</p>

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Which exchanges or wallets offer the option to open Lightning channels with them at the time of writing?
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# Which exchanges or wallets offer the option to open Lightning channels with them at the time of writing?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-06-05)

Which exchanges or wallets offer the option to open a channel with a Lightning routing node they operate at the time of writing (June 2023)? (I know Lightning Labs' [Pool](https://lightning.engineering/pool/) and [liquidity ads](https://medium.com/blockstream/lightnings-missing-piece-a-decentralized-liquidity-market-a0bb47534a4f) attempt to provide a solution to the inbound capacity problem but for now I'm just interested in outbound capacity.)

Of those that do are there any particular requirements (e.g. minimum channel capacity, uptime requirement)?

I understand that I could speculatively try Lightning nodes from [1ML](https://1ml.com/) or [Amboss](https://amboss.space/) but I'm capital and time constrained.

Also any exchanges or wallets offer the option to open signet channels with them at the time of writing?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2023-06-05. Score: 1

This is a draft answer. As always alternative answers are welcome.

[River](https://ln.river.com/) is advertising the option to open Lightning channels with them but recommends contacting them via email before doing this.

[Breez](https://doc.breez.technology/Open-a-Channel-with-Breez-Public-Node.html) has documentation on how to do this and has set a minimum 10 million satoshis (~$2,700) capacity. (I asked on the Breez Telegram why this minimum capacity was set and smaller channel opens were apparently causing routing failures. This seems like a problem with present day path finding algorithms as additional channels/routes are additive by definition and shouldn't increase routing failures.)

[Kraken](https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/9829766858260-Connecting-to-Kraken-s-Lightning-node) has a minimum 1 million satoshis (~$270) channel capacity. (Thanks username_1 for finding this)

> Also any exchanges or wallets offer the option to open signet channels with them at the time of writing?

I'm not aware of any. See this [post](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118400/can-you-help-me-get-started-running-a-signet-lightning-routing-node-with-intende) for guidance on setting up a routing node on signet.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2023-06-05. Score: 0

<https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/9829766858260-Connecting-to-Kraken-s-Lightning-node>
I found this for Kraken Centralized Exchange.


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