📥Increase receiving capacity

Learn how to increase the receiving capacity of your Alby Hub

This is an essential task as it ensures that you can always receive a payment. But no worries there are several simple options depending on your preferences.

• Just-In-Time Channels - the automated way
• Buy a channel with receiving capacity included
• Swap-out to your Alby Hub on-chain wallet
• Create receiving capacity by spending
• Send to another lightning wallet

Just-In-Time Channels - the automated way

What are Just-In-Time channels?

Buy a channel with receiving capacity included

Swap-out to your Alby Hub on-chain wallet

Transfer bitcoin from your Lightning Balance to your On-chain Balance. This will increase your receiving capacity, because it empties your payment channel by the amount you transfer to your on-chain wallet.

🔁Swaps

Create receiving capacity by spending

That’s probably the most fun option. If your lightning balance is high enough you can simply spend some of your sats in these apps.

Benefits: You create more receiving capacity and you also support the bitcoin ecosystem as a whole.

Send to another lightning wallet

If you have a another lightning wallet or your exchange supports lightning deposits you can send that sats from your lightning balance to that wallet. You can send a payment via the Alby Browser Extension or your Hub directly.

📤Send

Congrats! You just increase your Hub's receiving capacity. 🥳