Tools · Agent-integration primitives

ThunderHub

An open-source LND node manager in the browser — channel, liquidity, and fee management for your own node, and now the host for Amboss's Rails X (self-custody stablecoin trades) and Magma (one-click liquidity).

What it is

ThunderHub is an open-source (MIT) LND node manager you run in your browser — connect it to your own LND / Lightning Terminal (litd) node over gRPC and manage channels, balances, routing fees, liquidity, and accounting from any device. No account, no KYC: it’s a self-hosted dashboard for a node you already run, holding no funds and acting only with macaroon-scoped permissions. It matters for the agent economy as the operator surface for autonomous Lightning liquidity — and it’s now the host for Amboss’s Rails X (self-custody BTC↔USDT/USDC trades over Taproot-Assets channels, by circular payments) and Magma (one-click inbound-liquidity leasing), turning a node dashboard into a self-custody trading + liquidity console.

When to use it

• Managing a Lightning node’s channels, fees, and liquidity from one dashboard — the operator’s cockpit.
• Running Amboss Magma (buy inbound liquidity) and Rails X (trade BTC↔stablecoin self-custodially) without leaving the node manager.
• A human-in-the-loop control plane over an agent’s node — today’s realistic shape, since the deep automation lives in the node / CLI and tools like lightning-agent-tools, not the dashboard.

Dependencies

Your own LND (or litd) node, reachable over gRPC with a macaroon + TLS cert, plus on-chain / Lightning funds for channels. Self-hosted (Docker image apotdevin/thunderhub, or bundled by node OSes like Umbrel / Start9 / RaspiBlitz); MIT-licensed; no account or KYC. It manages a node; it does not custody funds.

Quick start

Deploy from github.com/apotdevin/thunderhub (or enable it on your node OS), point it at your LND macaroon + TLS cert, and open the dashboard; docs at docs.thunderhub.io. For self-custody stablecoin trading and liquidity, enable the Amboss Rails X / Magma integration inside ThunderHub.

Gotchas

• GUI-first — agent automation is limited. ThunderHub is a human operator’s dashboard (a NestJS GraphQL backend powering its own React UI), not a documented agent-drivable API. An autonomous agent manages liquidity through the node / CLI and tooling like lightning-agent-tools or LNbits; ThunderHub is the cockpit over that, not the autopilot.
• You run the node. It presupposes an LND / litd node and funds; it manages, it doesn’t custody.
• Rails X stablecoins are wrapped, issuer-backed assets. The USDT/USDC traded via Rails X are 1:1-backed wrapped assets (Speed Wallet) over Taproot Assets — the rail is self-custodial; the asset still carries its issuer’s freeze surface. See the Taproot Assets exchange card and Rails X.