Is there a tool for tracking lightning network adoption?

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I've just had a thought about whether the lightning network is far more utilised than it was back a few years ago and if there's anywhere I can track this to see if it's usage has increased a lot compared to on chain transactions? I know there were some tools that can try to estimate and track lightning transfers - I'm not sure if they're still effective or not because I thought for security reasons nodes stopped broadcasting their complete capacity (there's a potential for a dos attack in broadcasting your capacity limit afaik).

I've seen a few sites that show channel and network capacity so I'm assuming this is possible (unless they're estimates based on 2of2 multisigs or something).

[BlackBoss_]

If you want something in this forum, keep watching this topic.

Lightning Network Observer that is updated by the topic author fillippone and people who join that thread for discussions.

You can use some websites for tracking Lightning Network Adoption if you want.
https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning
More resources including things about Lightning Network Adoption.
https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html

[BitGoba]

Check mempool.info for Lightning stats, miner data, and other Bitcoin metrics. https://mempool.space/lightning

But you cant track individual Lightning transactions because Lightning payments are private.
What you can track is the amount of Bitcoin locked in smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain via Lightning channels.You can only track public Lightning nodes and the number of Lightning channels. Private Lightning channels cannot be tracked.You can also see who the largest nodes and Lightning providers are, and how much liquidity they have on the network.

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Thanks for the answers both. I was finding things like that but just wondered if there's anything close to what I actually thought might be an interesting metric.

But you cant track individual Lightning transactions because Lightning payments are private.
What you can track is the amount of Bitcoin locked in smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain via Lightning channels.You can only track public Lightning nodes and the number of Lightning channels.

Yeah I was starting to think this. I wanted to know if there was like a Bitcoin dominance chart even one that was a prediction but as I was writing the thread I thought it might be unfeasible unless ACINQ has something but I might've already found that if they did.