Today, I got back to working on "askrene" for Core Lighting. The idea is to extract the core logic of the experimental "renepay" plug-in into an Oracle you can ask for routes (and provide feedback on what happened). This is much more composable: anyone can write a plugin which uses this information, *or* an alternate pathfinding plugin to replace it.
It's built around the idea of "layers" which are where information lives: you tell it what layers to use when you ask for a set of routes. This has many uses: you might have route hints or blinded paths you want (or have to!) use. You might want to constrain a payment to a particular channel for rebalancing, etc.
In theory, these layers can be exported and imported: you can share information about the state of the network between nodes. I'm sure there's a pile of obfuscation needed to preserve privacy in this case, but it's an interesting idea...
Enjoying these updates. Good to see you posting on an open protocol.
Figure I'll write what I work on each day, why not?
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