Send Bitcoin to Lightning Address

To send Bitcoin to a given Lightning Address, all you need to do is call the Send Lightning Address Payment API with a POST call providing the following properties:

Property	Description
lnAddress	Recipient Lightning Address to send payment to.
amount	Total amount of satoshis to send (in millisatoshis).
comment	comment to be sent with the payment (max 150 characters).

Example: If you wish to reward 20 satoshis to a user for their completion of a challenge, and you have the user's Lightning Address, you can use the information below to send it in 1 API call.

{
    "amount": "20000",
    "lnAddress": "andre@zbd.gg",
    "comment": "Sending to a Lightning Address"
}

Response payloads will usually look similar to this:

{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "id": "795de178-573f-47dd-9535-a710cd9daf56",
        "fee": "2000",
        "unit": "msats",
        "amount": "20000",
        "preimage": "e2fb59fe93a2c63082be50f58f4f3e92841d436339fab93fdd67b1280650cf47",
        "status": "completed",
        "invoice": "lnbc200n1p3277jtpp5594ju6twysvqkqtus4l0pnawuum4w8l9x3ktz234pp93nfsdc5fshp574njlu3jdr3y2k3g4g9xcp323kgwh7n4v7n4yraakvwh7xmeyugqcqzpgxqyz5vqsp55ju2g2j06u8ua59kj80wqrpgsnkjclzdv28d0msgah90fcx9t9ds9qyyssqphhva4akne5hr0f6t3gmmdpllu00zxgvu70s0kp5g8wmg5vv26qygsearsyrcm4xjecttazfy3ul9lmcvas9ha24n9jtpc3ca9g2mqsppxzvdl",
        "walletId": "73c1db10-d1f7-499f-bbbe-eea2f73bb27c",
        "transactionId": "9ab28811-97d3-40d0-b603-50cfa00bba2d",
        "createdAt": "2022-06-19T19:34:35.955Z",
        "processedAt": "2022-06-19T19:34:36.936Z"
    },
    "message": "Payment done."
}

Wow that's easy. Welcome to instantaneous payments!

note

Fees are added post-send given that the routing fees for the Lightning Network are variable.(e.g if you send a 10,000 satoshi transaction to a Lightning Address and the fee ends up being 10 satoshis, the total paid by the API wallet is 10,010 satoshis).