Introduction

Alby Hub is more than a lightning wallet. It's your Hub for instant bitcoin payments across a growing ecosystem of apps and flexible enough to serve your very own use case.

Your Benefits

• Easiness: Running your own node has never been easier

• Ownership: 24/7 online wallet with a lightning address and more cool features

• Connectivity: Plug-in your Hub for self-custodial in-app payments anywhere

Feature Overview

• Bitcoin onchain and lightning deposits & withdrawals

• App marketplace

• App permission management

• In-app BTC purchases via cards and bank transfers

• Powers the Alby Browser Extension and Alby mobile (soon)

• Developer APIs

• Runs in the cloud, or on desktop and mini computers

Internal Phoenixd Node

Internal Phoenixd nodes are not accessible from the Internet. If you choose to add an internal Phoenixd node then only your Alby Hub will be able to connect to it. This is better for security but means that you cannot access your node from other applications.

Using an internal Phoenixd node with Alby Hub means you won't need to worry about channels or liquidity as this is automatically taken care of. See the Phoenixd service page for further information.