Lightning development kit blocked private channel tracking path
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The Lightning Development Kit (LDK) merged PR 5314 on October 26 (KST), closing an onion-message detection path that linked unannounced Lightning channels to their Bitcoin (BTC) on-chain funding outputs. The change applies to LDK's onion message forwarding, which nodes, wallets, and apps use to build on the Lightning Network, where channel funding transactions are recorded on-chain but unannounced channels are kept off the public network graph. The fix matters because it removes a way to correlate private channels with on-chain funding data, strengthening privacy for nodes that keep channels unannounced. Watch for adoption of the patched LDK release across Lightning wallet and node implementations, and for any further disclosures about the scope of the leak.
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