# core-lightning mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für core-lightning in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:core-lightning
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install core-lightning
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:core-lightning
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 26.06.6
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-27T15:30:01+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- lightning-cli (Alias)
- lightning-hsmtool (Alias)
- lightningd (Alias)
- reckless (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 26.06.6
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Core Lightning is a C implementation of the Lightning Network protocol that focuses on specification compliance, performance, modularity, and node-operator control. It was formerly known as c-lightning and remains one of the main Lightning node implementations used by technically inclined Bitcoin operators.

### Projektgeschichte

The ElementsProject/lightning repository was created in 2015, during the early implementation period for the Lightning Network. The official README describes Core Lightning, previously c-lightning, as a lightweight, highly customizable, standard-compliant Lightning Network implementation.

The project reached production use on Bitcoin mainnet in early 2018 with the launch of Blockstream Store. Its documentation later standardized on the Core Lightning and CLN names while keeping the same implementation lineage.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Core Lightning adoption has been strongest among node operators, protocol developers, and businesses that want a scriptable daemon, JSON-RPC interface, plugin system, and close tracking of Lightning Network specifications. Its support for plugins and multiple API surfaces makes it especially common in custom node infrastructure.

### Wie es verwendet wird

A normal installation runs lightningd alongside a synchronized bitcoind node, then controls it with lightning-cli, JSON-RPC, plugins, or newer API surfaces. Configuration is conventionally stored under ~/.lightning, with network-specific config directories, and the hsm_secret file is the critical wallet-secret material.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, Core Lightning is more than a CLI: it ships a daemon, client tools, helper tools, plugins, manpage-style docs, and sensitive runtime state expectations. Packaging has to respect platform support, Bitcoin Core integration, database choices, and key material locations.

### Zeitleiste

- 2015: ElementsProject/lightning repository created.
- 2018: c-lightning/Core Lightning in production use on Bitcoin mainnet with Blockstream Store.
- 2020s: Documentation and README use the Core Lightning and CLN names for the former c-lightning project.
- 2026: v26.06.x releases show continued active upstream maintenance.

### Related projects

- Core Lightning is related to Bitcoin Core, the Lightning Network specifications, other Lightning implementations such as LND and Eclair, and CLN's plugin and RPC ecosystem.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning>
- <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning#readme>
- <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases>
- <https://docs.corelightning.org/docs/home>
- <https://docs.corelightning.org/docs/configuring-your-node>
- <https://docs.corelightning.org/docs/securing-keys>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.lightning/config, ~/.lightning/bitcoin/config

## Credential files

- Unix: $LIGHTNINGDIR/hsm_secret

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/core-lightning.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/core-lightning.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph