📥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.

• Buy a channel with receiving capacity included

• Create receiving capacity yourself

• Send to another lightning wallet

• Send to another on-chain wallet

Buy a channel with receiving capacity included

Create receiving capacity yourself

That’s probably the most fun option. If your spending 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 spending balance to that wallet. You can send a payment via the Alby Browser Extension or your Hub directly.

📤Send

Send to another on-chain wallet

If you have a bitcoin on-chain wallet you can use a so called swap service to move our sats from the lightning network into a bitcoin on-chain wallet. You'll reduce the spending balance of your Alby Hub and increase the receiving capacity.

It works with the following swap services:

• Boltz Exchange (Guide for swapping from Liquid to your Alby account)

• SimpleSwap

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

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