Vortex is a tool to allow users to open lightning channels in a collaborative transaction when using lnd and Core Lightning
Compatibility
Vortex is compatible with lnd version v0.15.4-beta and up & core lightning version v0.10.2.
Building from source
Scala/Java
You can choose to install the Scala toolchain with sdkman or coursier.
Sdkman
You can install sdkman here
Next you can install java and sbt with
sdk install java # not always needed
sdk install sbt
Coursier
If you don't like curl, you can use OS specific package managers to install coursier here
ln-vortex requires java9+ for development environments. If you do not have java9+ installed, you will not be able to build ln-vortex. You will run into this error if you are on java8 or lower
If you follow the coursier route, you can switch to a java11 version by running
cs java --jvm adopt:11 --setup
macOS install
brew install scala
brew install sbt
Running the client
Running the client can simply be done by running
sbt rpcServer/run