The Frontier

Core Lightning's 26.04 release has removed splicing from experimental status, making it a default and production-ready feature. This marks a significant upgrade in Core Lightning's implementation of the splicing protocol.

LND #9985 promotes simple Taproot channels to production status. It incorporates `OP_CHECKSIGVERIFY` for Tapscripts and improved map-based nonce handling linked to funding transaction IDs, serving as groundwork for future splicing.