ZEUS v0.8.5 and v0.9.0-beta

ZEUS v0.8.5 and v0.9.0-beta

Today we're announcing two new releases of ZEUS.

First, is stable release v0.8.5, which features BOLT 12 offers and BIP-353 lightning addresses, courtesy our friends at Twelve.cash, for Core Lightning users, using the c-lightning-REST backend.

BOLT 12 is a payment upgrade for lightning that enables reusable payments without a web-server and improved receiver privacy. For more information, check out Bolt12.org.

We're excited to finally have ZEUS users test BOLT 12 in the wild, especially with several other wallets - like Phoenix and Plasma - implementing it as well.

The v0.8.5 release also includes some updates to our embedded "node in the phone", including an upgrade to LND v0.18.0-beta and Neutrino optimizations that should make for a much smoother experience for users.

ZEUS v0.8.5 is now available for download on Google Play, the Apple App Store, our self-hosted F-Droid repo, and on ZeusLN.com.

v0.8.5 release notes


Second off, we're opening up beta testing of our next major release, v0.9.0, to the public.

v0.9.0 includes a plethora of new features and improvements to the app including:

  • Our brand new Purchase channels in advance service, that will allow users to be more economical in their channel lease purchases from our LSP, Olympus
  • A new interface for Core Lighting users: CLNRest - which is officially supported by the Core Lightning team
  • Hardware wallet / signing device support - allowing users to craft on-chain transactions, and open and close channels to and from popular hardware wallets such as:
    • Coldcard Q
    • Foundation Passport
    • Seedsigner
    • Krux
    • Keystone Pro 3
    • and many others
  • Watch-only account import (xpub)
  • Batch channel opens + transactions
  • Close channels to external addresses
  • Pending HTLCs view
  • A new swipe to pay component for invoices >= 10,000 sats
  • A new layout that makes for quicker one-handed invoice scanning
  • A new, more performant camera

We look forward to gathering feedback from user as we refine v0.9.0 for general release.

iOS TestFlight

Android downloads and v0.9.0-beta1 release notes