lightning-askrene-create-channel -- Command to add a channel to layer

SYNOPSIS

askrene-create-channel layer source destination short_channel_id capacity_msat

DESCRIPTION

Command added in v24.11.

The askrene-create-channel RPC command tells askrene create a channel in the given layer. To actually populate the channel use askrene-update-channel in each direction.

• layer (string): The name of the layer to apply this change to.
• source (pubkey): The source node id for the channel.
• destination (pubkey): The destination node id for the channel.
• short_channel_id (short_channel_id): The short channel id for the channel. If a channel with this short channel id already exists in layer, the source, destination and capacity_msat must be the same.
• capacity_msat (msat): The capacity (onchain size) of the channel.
  NOTE: this is in millisatoshis!

RETURN VALUE

On success, an empty object is returned.

AUTHOR

Rusty Russell <[email protected]> is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO

lightning-getroutes(7), lightning-askrene-disable-node(7), lightning-askrene-update-channel(7), lightning-askrene-inform-channel(7), lightning-askrene-listlayers(7), lightning-askrene-age(7)

RESOURCES

Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning