{"id":551927,"date":"2026-02-05T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/record-1m-lightning-transfer-tests-bitcoin-payments-for-institutions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:52:58","slug":"record-1m-lightning-transfer-tests-bitcoin-payments-for-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/record-1m-lightning-transfer-tests-bitcoin-payments-for-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Record $1M Lightning transfer tests Bitcoin payments for institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Record<\/p>\n

A $1 million Lightning transfer between SDM and Kraken was used to test whether Bitcoin\u2019s main scaling layer could handle seven\u2011figure, institutional\u2011grade payments.<\/p>\n

Institutional trading and lending desk Secure Digital Markets (SDM) said it sent a $1 million payment to cryptocurrency exchange Kraken over the Lightning Network on Jan. 28.<\/p>\n

SDM claimed in a Thursday statement shared with Cointelegraph that it is the largest publicly reported Lightning transaction to date and a proof\u2011of\u2011concept for seven\u2011figure transfers between regulated counterparties.<\/p>\n

The payment cleared<\/a> in 0.43 seconds and was routed via Voltage\u2019s managed Lightning infrastructure, which provides node management, pre\u2011provisioned liquidity, and uptime guarantees aimed at exchanges and trading desks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A $1 million Lightning transfer between SDM and Kraken was used to test whether Bitcoin\u2019s main scaling layer could handle seven\u2011figure, institutional\u2011grade payments. Institutional trading and lending desk Secure Digital Markets (SDM) said it sent a $1 million payment to cryptocurrency exchange Kraken over the Lightning Network on Jan. 28. SDM claimed in a Thursday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-551927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}