Alby NWC Relay
Use the Alby NWC Relay for your NWC wallet service
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Use the Alby NWC Relay for your NWC wallet service
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NWC is an open protocol to let your users connect their wallets to third-party applications and enjoy in-app payments. Dozens of support NWC already. Join the community.
To enable your bitcoin lightning wallet to be connected via the NWC protocol, you need to build an NWC wallet service, which takes care of:
Accessing the wallet for transactions and wallet information
Creating NWC URIs to initiate the connection between apps and your wallet
Sending and receiving NWC messages to facilitate lightning capabilities in connected apps
NWC uses Nostr's relay technology to send and receive the mentioned NWC requests. As defined by the NWC specification a wallet service needs to issue NWC URIs containing the relay.
NWC does not specify any requirements on the type of a Nostr-compatible relay. However, it is recommended to use a dedicated relay. Doing so prevents metadata leaks and ensures reliability.
That's why Alby is offering a professionally operated relay specialized on NWC events.
There is no authentication needed. We want you to focus on building instead of dealing with administrative topics.
To ensure enough capacity for your service, please . We'll scale up the infrastructure for you.
There are two options to start sending and receiving events:
Use the to communicate events via HTTP instead of dealing with websockets.
Connect yourself to
In case of any questions, feel free to .