What is Fiber Network?

Fiber network is a peer-to-peer payment/swap network (like Lightning Network). We believe payment and swap are the two foundational primitives of finance. Fiber Network Node (FNN) is a reference node implementation of Fiber Network Protocol (FNP).

Features

• Multiple assets support, e.g. stable coins, RGB++ assets issued on Bitcoin ledger, and UDT assets issued on CKB ledger;
• Extremely low-cost micropayments, e.g. 0.0001 cent payment with 0.00000001 cent fee;
• Instant swap between any asset pairs, as long as there's available channel paths;
• Cross-network asset payment/swap, e.g. from Lightning network to Fiber network, and vice versa;
• Watchtower support, make it easier for node operators;
• Multi-hop payment, anyone can facilitate payments and earn payment fees by running a fiber node and becoming a hop on payment paths;
• Low latency, e.g. 0.0001 cent payment in your p2p connection latency, e.g. 20ms;
• High throughput, because transactions are only processed by involved peers, no network consensus required;
• High privacy, your transactions are only seen by involved peers;
• Based on more advanced cryptographic techniques to ensure security and privacy, e.g. uses PTLC not HTLC;
• Composable with other contracts/scripts on CKB;

Roadmap

• Establishing connections with other fiber nodes
• Creating and closing fiber channel
• Payments over fiber channel (via [fiber-scripts])
• Cross-network asset transfer
• Web-browser friendly runtime
• Programmable conditional payment
• Advanced channel liquidity management
• Atomic multi-path payment